News Forum - McDonald’s mayhem: Global online services grind to a halt

[Thaiger]

McDonald’s, the global fast food titan, has been left reeling after a major technical glitch sent shockwaves across its chain, leaving customers hungry and frustrated. The culprit? A third-party provider’s blunder, not cyber-criminals as feared. The chaos unfolded during a routine configuration change, causing a system-wide outage that crippled operations in the fast food giant’s … …

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[Ramanathan.P]

No one is starving or dead because they cannot get McD for a day. Anyway fast food are slow killer and a close buddy for medical and pharmacutical industry. May be the pharma might bave been in dilemma for a short while...

[MrStretch]

14 hours ago, Ramanathan.P said:

No one is starving or dead because they cannot get McD for a day. Anyway fast food are slow killer and a close buddy for medical and pharmacutical industry. May be the pharma might bave been in dilemma for a short while...

Nowhere in the article was it even hinted that anyone was starving, or even harmed for that matter.  The conflation of fast food and the pharmaceutical industry is unwarranted and more than confusing.

[PhuketBloke]

3 hours ago, MrStretch said:

Nowhere in the article was it even hinted that anyone was starving, or even harmed for that matter.  The conflation of fast food and the pharmaceutical industry is unwarranted and more than confusing.

What about the aliens who rely on medication provided via McDonalds, how did they manage to cope?