"McDonald's Suffers Global IT Outage, Halting Orders Worldwide"

McDonald's restaurants across Australia and in several other countries have been hit by a global IT outage, forcing some branches to close and others to only accept cash orders. Internal systems have been offline, preventing customers from paying for food, and the company has apologized for the inconvenience. The issue has been reported in countries including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, the U.K., U.S., and the Netherlands.