A McCouac menu, please. The fast food chain McDonald's was the victim of a “technological failure” that affected several of its restaurants around the world, such as in France, Japan, the United Kingdom but also in Australia, it indicated. 20 minutes the company, confirming information TV BFM. He specifies that “the problem is now resolved” and that “all French restaurants” have reopened.

For several hours, online and kiosk ordering services were down, forcing some establishments to temporarily close. The affected subsidiaries added that it was not a cyber attack.

Festival of reactions on social networks

On social media, many Internet users shared the problems they encountered with this widespread “blackout.” “McDonald's service interruption is crazy. I went there this afternoon and the disk and all the terminals were broken. A system that can collapse at the scale of one country is bad, but also in several countries? “It’s crazy,” he said, for example. reacted on X (ex-Twitter) a client in New Zealand.

Another customer from Japan reported a “nationwide” outage and explained that they were only selling “nuggets/fries” and accepting “cash only.” “Staff calculate totals on paper,” he noted.

And as usual, Burker King also commented on his competitor's situation with a nice play on words that diverts McDonald's slogan. [« I.T » veut dire « Information Technology » soit technologie de l’information en français].