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
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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