--- title: You'll Be Able to Order a Big Mac From Your Phone Starting Next Year description: Starting next year, McDonald's customers in the U.S. and across the globe will be able to order and pay for food with their phones. authors: - name: Kristen Bahler role: Managing Editor url: https://money.com/author/kristen-bahler/ bio: Kristen Bahler has spent more than a decade turning culture, work and consumer spending trends into conversation-driving stories. Today, she leads Money's sponsored content channel and reader-favorite franchises like Best Places to Live and Best Places to Travel. education: Northeastern University, MA Journalism at_money_since: 2016 articles: 52 covers: - Technology - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes social: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-bahler/ published: '2016-11-04T21:07:28.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T04:29:27.000Z' section: Technology tags: - consumer - Food & Drink - Mcdonald's - Mobile Apps - pubdesk word_count: 188 canonical: https://money.com/mcdonalds-mobile-ordering-app/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![McDonald's logo outside the McCafe restaurant.McCafe is a](https://img.money.com/2016/11/gettyimages-496912006.jpg) If your Dollar Menu addiction is eclipsed only by your disdain for long lines, here's some good news. Starting next year, McDonald's customers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, France, and Australia will be able to order and pay for their food with their smartphones, via the company's new mobile order-and-pay technology. By 2018, the technology will be available to 20,000 to 25,000 McDonald's restaurants worldwide, McDonald's spokesperson Becca Hary told Money. McDonald's is relatively late to the mobile ordering game — [Starbucks](https://money.com/starbucks-launches-mobile-ordering-skip-line/?iid=sr-link1), [Taco Bell](https://money.com/free-doritos-locos-taco-taco-bell/?iid=sr-link5), and a bevy of other fast food chains launched apps that help customers avoid the register over a year ago. The Starbucks app is so popular that about 25% of the company's customers use it to pay for their orders. In the coming years, order-and-pay apps could help cut labor costs for McDonald's restaurants worldwide, consultant Neil Saunders told *[Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-mobile-ordering-is-coming-2016-11). * "This would be helpful to the company at a time when wage pressures are becoming a heavier burden on the cost line," he said. 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