McDonald's hit by outages at stores worldwide

McDonald’s said on Friday it had halted operations at many of its stores in Japan due to a system disruption and was facing technical outages at some other outlets worldwide, including Australia.

Many McDonald’s stores in Japan stopped taking in-person and mobile customer orders because of the system disruption, a spokesperson at McDonald’s Holdings Company Japan said, adding that the company was working to restore operations soon.

A McDonald’s Australia spokesperson said they were also aware of a technology outage impacting its restaurants nationwide and were working to resolve this issue.

The company operates nearly 3,000 stores across Japan and roughly 1,000 in