McDonald's customers unable to order food after chain hit by global systems outage
McDonald's has apologised after a reported IT system outage in some of its restaurants left customers unable to order food.
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On Friday morning, customers in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Japan complained about issues trying to buy from the fast food giant on social media.
In Japan, the company apologised to customers on social media and said they may need to "wait a while" for problems to be resolved.
The fast food giant, which has a 20 branches in and around Wolverhampton alone, has just reopened its Penn branch following a £1m refurbishment just four days ago.
A spokesperson for McDonald's thanked customers for their patience: "We are aware of a technology outage which impacted our restaurants. The issue has now been resolved in the UK and Ireland. We thank customers for their patience and apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. The issue is not related to a cybersecurity event."
A number of customers said on social media that their local restaurants were closed although they were able to make orders through the company's app.
