Fast food giant McDonald’s launches “McDelivery” through Uber
23 Jun 2017
Fast food giant McDonald's has launched its long-awaited ''McDelivery'' trial in the UK after teaming up with Uber's food delivery service UberEats.
The service will be launched from 22 outlets across the capital and another 10 restaurants in Leeds and Nottingham – although customers would need to live within a 1.5-mile radius of a restaurant.
According to Claude Abi-Gerges, a McDonald's franchisee who had five London outlets participating in the trial, the service will offer a ''new level of convenience'' to fit around customers' busy lives.
McDonald's said it would closely monitor the trial to see whether it proved popular.
According to Mathieu Proust, general manager of UberEats, the trial would allow people to ''get the food they want'' quickly and reliably.
The launch comes after the launch of home deliveries by KFC from 30 outlets in greater London via the Just Eat platform earlier this year.
According to analysts at NPD Group, growth in the number of ready-to-eat food deliveries was stronger than that for the broader eating out market last year.
The move comes after tie-ups with Uber in the US. MacDonald's already delivered in China and Singapore.