07/22/2026
🍔 McDonald's is quietly running a long-term campaign to pull delivery orders away from apps like Uber Eats and Wolt into its own app.
🍟 The numbers show how far they've come. Loyalty program sales hit ~$40 billion in 2025, nearly doubling in two years. Active app users grew from 150 million in 2023 to 210 million today. Their official target: 30% of all delivery orders originating from the McDonald's app by 2027.
The reason customers are making the switch isn't hard to find.
Our Germany benchmark - 76,648 price points across all 1,366 McDonald's venues - shows the gap clearly. Order a Big Mac McMeal on Wolt or Uber Eats and you pay roughly 26–27% more than through the McDonald's app.
Same restaurant. Same food. The only variable is which app you open.
Most customers don't run that comparison consciously. But once they notice a €3–4 difference on a family order, the habit changes. McDonald's is betting on exactly that - and building the infrastructure to capture those orders before a third-party platform does.
🔎 For delivery platforms, this is worth watching closely. The most valuable restaurant partner you have is also the one working hardest to reduce its dependency on you.
At FoodDataLab, we track pricing, coverage and platform shifts across 200+ markets - so you see these moves before they show up in your order volumes.