McDonald’s restaurants were forced to stop serving food because of a global IT outage.
McMeltdown: McDonald’s hit by global IT outage, restaurants impacted https://t.co/ggqS1kDQ1q pic.twitter.com/EVNSUJTAO6
— New York Post (@nypost) March 15, 2024
Looks like it specifically hit McDonald’s locations in Australia and United Kingdom particularly hard.
#BREAKING: There are reports McDonald’s stores have been forced to close due to a widespread IT outage.
McDonald's says the issue is impacting outlets nationwide and is asking customers to be patient. #9News
DETAILS: https://t.co/wEACZbXy5q pic.twitter.com/0WQhtZCg8l
— 9News Australia (@9NewsAUS) March 15, 2024
McDonald's IT outage leaves customers in the UK unable to order food https://t.co/esppTIXjYB
— ITV News (@itvnews) March 15, 2024
This is yet another incident showing how the combination of relying on increasingly complex systems being run and maintained by increasingly dumber people is a very bad one.
There is also no reason why a restaurant has to stop functioning because of a technology issue. A restaurant could just take cash and process orders by hand. That’s how it was done prior to the Internet existing. Orders don’t have to be punched into computers.
Whatever, McDonald’s food isn’t very good so I guess you could argue that this outage wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. Even still, it highlights how systems are becoming increasingly unreliable throughout the West.
