It seems there were an overwhelming number of McDonald’s app users exploiting the “deals” section of the app. Today there is a deal for $0.50 Double Cheeseburgers (limit 1x per customer). I submitted an order in the app that included one, but after I checked out, I saw I placed it at the McDonald’s near my partner’s work. I immediately cancelled the order and re-created it to submit to the one 3 minutes from the house.
Wouldn’t you know it, I have to wait 15 minutes before using the deal again. Even though the order was canceled immediately and no food was made. Imagine that. I wonder in what way users were taking advantage of the “deals” to make it like this.