McDonald's

aid: mcdonalds
name: McDonald's
description: McDonald's is the world's leading global foodservice retailer, operating and franchising fast food restaurants
  serving hamburgers, chicken, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, and desserts in countries around the world. McDonald's
  does not operate a public developer program or publish open API documentation. Its digital surface — the Global Mobile App,
  MyMcDonald's Rewards loyalty, mobile order & pay, kiosks, and drive-thru personalization — runs on internal platforms, and
  integrations with delivery marketplaces (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub) and technology partners (Google Cloud, Dynamic Yield)
  are bilateral and gated to approved partners and franchisees.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mcdonalds/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-21'
modified: '2026-06-02'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
tags:
- Delivery
- Fast Food
- Loyalty
- Mobile Ordering
- Ordering
- Restaurants
- Fortune 500
apis:
- aid: mcdonalds:mcdonalds-api
  name: McDonald's API
  description: McDonald's does not expose a public, self-service API. Ordering, delivery integration, menu data, loyalty,
    and restaurant information flow through bilateral partner integrations rather than open developer endpoints. The api.mcdonalds.com
    and developer.mcdonalds.com hosts do not resolve to public documentation (both refuse connections as of the profiling
    date). Any API access is negotiated per partnership with delivery marketplaces, payment processors, loyalty integrators,
    and franchisee technology vendors.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/digital.html
  tags:
  - Delivery
  - Fast Food
  - Loyalty
  - Mobile Ordering
  - Ordering
  - Restaurants
  properties:
  - type: x-status
    url: https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/digital.html
    x-note: No public developer portal or open API documentation as of 2026-06.
features:
- name: No Public Developer Program
  description: McDonald's publishes no open API documentation and offers no self-service developer signup. Integration is
    bilateral and partner-gated.
- name: Global Mobile App
  description: McDonald's Global Mobile App delivers mobile order & pay, deals, and MyMcDonald's Rewards on a unified platform
    spanning app, kiosk, and loyalty surfaces, deployed across markets beginning in 2024.
- name: MyMcDonald's Rewards
  description: Loyalty program targeting 250M 90-day active members and $45B in annual systemwide sales from loyalty members
    by the end of 2027.
- name: Drive-Thru Personalization
  description: Dynamic Yield powers personalized digital menu boards and automated upselling across thousands of drive-thru
    lanes.
- name: Generative AI Platform
  description: Strategic Google Cloud partnership applying generative AI and Google Distributed Cloud edge compute across
    restaurants for crew tools, analytics, and customer experiences.
useCases:
- name: Delivery Marketplace Listing
  description: Surfacing McDonald's menus, pricing, and fulfillment to consumers via DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub through
    bilateral marketplace integrations.
- name: Franchisee Restaurant Technology
  description: POS, kiosk, kitchen, and back-of-house systems integrated per franchisee and market under McDonald's technology
    standards rather than a public API.
integrations:
- name: Google Cloud
  description: Strategic partnership for cloud, edge (Google Distributed Cloud), and generative AI across restaurants worldwide.
- name: Dynamic Yield
  description: Personalization engine driving drive-thru digital menu boards and automated upsell recommendations.
- name: DoorDash
  description: Delivery marketplace integration for on-demand fulfillment.
- name: Uber Eats
  description: Delivery marketplace integration for on-demand fulfillment.
- name: Grubhub
  description: Delivery marketplace integration for on-demand fulfillment.
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.mcdonalds.com
- type: Corporate
  url: https://corporate.mcdonalds.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://medium.com/mcdonalds-technical-blog
- type: Plans
  url: plans/mcdonalds-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/mcdonalds-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/mcdonalds-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com