McDonald’s restaurants unable to serve food amid reported IT outage

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 PA news agency has contacted McDonald’s for comment.

In the UK, 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.

A McDonald’s Australia spokesman said it was “aware of a technology outage” currently impacting stores, according to the Daily Mail.

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