You Can Now Order Dunkin' Through the Walmart App
Walmart just made the morning routine a little more convenient.
The retail giant announced Thursday it's adding Dunkin' to its app through a partnership with Inspire Brands, letting customers order coffee, breakfast sandwiches, and donuts at the same time they're placing a grocery delivery order. No separate app. No switching platforms. Just Dunkin' showing up in the Restaurants tab when you're already shopping.
The rollout starts with the 150 Dunkin' locations already operating inside Walmart stores, then expands to the majority of Dunkin's roughly 10,000 standalone locations nationwide. If there's an eligible Dunkin' near you, it'll show up automatically based on your delivery address. Customers can customize their order, check out, and have it delivered alongside everything else.
"Our goal is simple: make it even easier for guests to get what they need," Walmart said.
This Is Part of Something Bigger
Dunkin' isn't the first restaurant Walmart has added to its app. The chain quietly got into the restaurant delivery business earlier this summer with Subway — also through Inspire Brands — and the Dunkin' addition signals that Walmart is serious about becoming a legitimate player in the food delivery space, not just a one-off test.
Inspire Brands is a smart partner for this play. Beyond Dunkin', the company owns Arby's, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Jimmy John's, and SONIC — meaning Walmart's restaurant tab could expand considerably if the partnership continues building out. Walmart's 280 million weekly customers represent an enormous built-in audience for restaurant delivery without needing to build the customer base from scratch the way Uber Eats and DoorDash had to.
Why Walmart Is Well-Positioned for This
The grocery delivery market has been brutal. DoorDash, Uber Eats, Instacart, and a dozen smaller players have spent years and billions competing for the same customers. Most have struggled to turn consistent profits — the economics of single-restaurant delivery are challenging, with high driver costs and thin margins on individual orders.
Walmart's angle is different. Its delivery infrastructure already exists to serve grocery orders across the country. Adding restaurant items to an existing delivery run changes the math significantly — you're not dispatching a driver for a $12 iced coffee, you're adding a $12 iced coffee to a grocery order that's already going out anyway. That bundling model is more economical than standalone food delivery and gives customers a genuinely useful combination — coffee with your groceries — rather than just another delivery option competing for attention.
Whether customers actually use it regularly enough to justify the expansion is what Walmart will find out over the next several months. The infrastructure bet is smart. The consumer habit is still being built.
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