Weird behavior at multiple braums?

https://www.reddit.com/r/springfieldMO/comments/1ifpd3t/weird_behavior_at_multiple_braums/

created by Punnchy on 02/02/2025 at 04:37 UTC

35 upvotes, 8 top-level comments (showing 8)

Maybe someone has the answer to this one. Found out the north side braums has been cash only and inside orders only for the better part of a week and a sunshine location was also cash only today. The last time I saw a business doing this the cicis on battlefield shut its doors for over a year and there was a bunch of court stuff for unpaid rent ans embezzlement.

The computers where not being used at n. Kansas and all orders where being written down, no tax charged.

I'm under the impression that card readers have an offline mode by default so lack of internet shouldn't be the end all.

Comments

Comment by lunameow at 02/02/2025 at 04:43 UTC

46 upvotes, 0 direct replies

They were hacked a few days ago, if you search 'braums cash only', it's all over the place.

Comment by musicalfarm at 02/02/2025 at 04:47 UTC

24 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Braum's got hacked. They're doing cash only in Oklahoma as well.

Comment by bakedthumbs at 02/02/2025 at 04:46 UTC*

9 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Nothing really to add, but our Braums 45 minutes from Springfield has the same thing going on.

Comment by gatewayy at 02/02/2025 at 13:29 UTC

6 upvotes, 0 direct replies

It’s a nationwide outage for many days now.

Comment by StinkyDeerback at 02/02/2025 at 04:55 UTC

18 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I was in last night, and went directly to the restroom. On the way there, a young employee and I exchanged "good evenings," then he prodeeded to say, "as I sit here and wonder, I wonder if the service outage has affected the work phones because they haven't been ringing as much." I agreed and said "probably," and walked into the bathroom. When I finished and walked out, we made eye contact and I nodded and said "goodnight," but he acted like he had never seen me before.

It was, itself, a weird interaction, and even more since I didn't even know anything about the cash only stuff because I had just gotten in there.

Comment by pr1moispfat at 02/02/2025 at 16:49 UTC

4 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Cc readers do not have an offline mode btw

Comment by water_boy_22 at 02/02/2025 at 20:10 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Outage thanks y'all for the headsup.

Comment by telxonhacker at 02/02/2025 at 17:50 UTC

-1 upvotes, 2 direct replies

At least they know how to operate without technology. I went to a Burger King last year, and they told me they couldn't take orders because their system was down, I explained "no problem, I have cash". The employee gave me a puzzled look and repeated "our systems are down though..." They didn't know how to add up an order with a calculator or on pen and paper!

If we ever get hit with a major internet outage, there are going to be a lot of people who forget how to function.