McDonalds and Uber Eats Expanding

I read this announced in a sign in the local McDs a year ago.  My immediate thought was:  Who would use this?  A snarky piece below in Buzzfeed.  But it appears that this worked.  Watching McD's use of tech, most recently in store ordering.

McDonald’s And Uber Eats Need Each Other Now More Than Ever
The two companies both desire a bigger share of the world. They found each other.
Venessa Wong

This is a story of unexpected love. Some couples seem fated to end up together. Then there are unions rooted in circumstance — the kind that first grows out of need but blossoms into a thing of beauty over time. McDonald’s and Uber Eats could be the latter kind of partners.

The couple is on the heels of celebrating its first anniversary, having come together just over a year ago to offer McDelivery starting in a few Florida cities. Things went well, executives said, so they took their relationship to second base, and as of today, they’ve expanded to more than 5,000 McDonald’s in the US (that’s one-third of all McDonald’s locations in the country), and to the chain’s locations in other countries as well. .... "