McDonald's makes Uber its preferred app delivery partner across 14 markets, with Deliverect behind Uber Direct

What's the deal? On 9 November 2026, McDonald's and Uber announced a multi-year expansion of their partnership across 14 markets: the US, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Uber becomes the preferred delivery partner for orders placed in the McDonald's app, fulfilled mainly through Uber Direct in partnership with Deliverect, the Ghent-based order and delivery infrastructure company. Customers can order and track delivery inside the McDonald's app without leaving it, and can still order McDonald's on Uber Eats.

Loyalty. Uber also becomes McDonald's exclusive delivery and rideshare rewards partner in participating markets. From this month, MyMcDonald's Rewards members in select markets can redeem points for Uber ride discounts via a seasonal activation in the McDonald's app. The companies plan later to let customers earn MyMcDonald's Rewards points on eligible Uber Eats McDonald's orders.

Scale. McDonald's and Uber first partnered in the US in 2017; McDonald's is now on Uber Eats in 30 countries. Mason Smoot, McDonald's senior vice president of global franchising and delivery, said McDelivery is a business of more than $20 billion a year. Uber president and COO Andrew Macdonald called the expansion the companies' broadest with McDonald's to date. Terms were not disclosed.

Context. Deliverect, co-founded in 2018 by Zhong Xu and colleagues, integrates restaurant ordering channels and powers first-party delivery with Uber Direct. Bloomberg reported that McDonald's will still appear on both Uber Eats and DoorDash marketplaces, with the change focused on who fulfils orders inside McDonald's own app.

Sources: McDonald's; Uber; Bloomberg.

Photo: Uber Eats delivery bags outside a McDonald's in Rotterdam (Donald Trung Quoc Don / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0).