Walmart is integrating Dunkin’ delivery into the Walmart app and Walmart.com, beginning with the 150 Dunkin’ locations already operating inside Walmart stores before rolling out to the majority of the coffee chain’s roughly 10,000 standalone locations across the United States. The Dunkin’ delivery Walmart app expansion marks a pronounced step up in scale from the retailer’s earlier restaurant delivery experiments.
Customers with an eligible Dunkin’ near their delivery address will find the chain listed under the Restaurants tab. From there, they can customise food and drink orders and have them delivered alongside their standard Walmart grocery shop, rather than making a separate trip.
From In-Store Trial to a National Dunkin’ Delivery Walmart App Rollout
Walmart began testing restaurant delivery earlier this summer when Subway became the first chain added to its Express Delivery programme. That initial rollout was confined to Subway restaurants located inside Walmart stores. The Dunkin’ partnership is where the ambition grows considerably: Walmart plans to eventually bring most of the chain’s thousands of standalone restaurants into the programme, taking the model well beyond its own car parks.
Walmart executive Greg Cathey framed the partnership as a way to remove an errand from customers’ daily routines. Rather than a separate coffee run sitting alongside a grocery delivery, both arrive in the same window. That convenience logic is the core commercial proposition Walmart is building around its restaurant delivery tab.
Dunkin’ Brand President Scott Murphy set out the chain’s position plainly. ‘Our goal is simple: make it even easier for guests to enjoy Dunkin’ whenever and wherever they want it,’ he said. Murphy added that placing Dunkin’ inside the Walmart app gives customers another route to work their usual orders into everyday life, rather than requiring a dedicated stop.
Why the Scale of the Dunkin’ Partnership Sets It Apart
The shift from the Subway pilot to the Dunkin’ expansion illustrates how quickly Walmart is moving on this format. Subway’s inclusion stayed within the footprint Walmart already controlled: restaurants physically inside its stores. Dunkin’ is the first chain where Walmart plans to pull in large numbers of locations it has no direct relationship with, effectively turning its app into a broader restaurant delivery platform rather than a value-add for in-store tenants.
For Dunkin’, the attraction is distribution. With roughly 10,000 US locations, the chain already has broad reach, but appearing inside the Walmart shopping journey puts it in front of customers who are already in a transactional mindset. A coffee and breakfast sandwich sitting alongside a trolley of groceries is a meaningfully different placement from a standalone food delivery app, where the customer has to actively seek it out.
Walmart’s restaurant tab now effectively functions as a secondary marketplace sitting inside the retailer’s primary shopping interface. Customers ordering bread, milk and household essentials can, at the same moment, queue a Dunkin’ order for the same delivery window. The logistical model of combining those fulfilment streams is what Walmart has been stress-testing since the Subway launch earlier this summer.
The expansion to standalone Dunkin’ locations, rather than only those inside Walmart stores, is described as the eventual end-state rather than the immediate launch condition. The rollout begins with 150 in-store locations, giving Walmart and Dunkin’ a controlled environment to calibrate the experience before extending it to the broader network. Whether the timeline for that wider rollout has been fixed publicly has not been disclosed.