McDonald’s App-Only $1 Egg and Sausage McMuffins Available March 2

McDonald’s ran an app-only promotion on Monday, March 2, 2026, pricing the classic Egg McMuffin and the Sausage McMuffin with Egg at $1 each for one day in honor of National Egg McMuffin Day. The offer applied during breakfast hours at participating U.S. restaurants and was limited to one discounted sandwich per person.

Redemption required the McDonald’s mobile app; customers were advised to place orders before 10:30 a.m. local time to ensure they captured the promotion during breakfast service. McDonald’s corporate messaging from a prior National Egg McMuffin Day promotion in a Feb. 28, 2020 release specified a 6:00–10:30 a.m. local time redemption window for that year’s app offer, illustrating the chain’s recurring use of morning app windows for similar deals.

The Egg McMuffin is built with a freshly cracked cage-free egg, Canadian bacon, American cheese and real dairy butter on a toasted English muffin, while the Sausage McMuffin with Egg replaces Canadian bacon with a sausage patty. Multiple reports listed the sandwiches at roughly 17–20 grams of protein apiece. McDonald’s scale behind the breakfast push is large: the restaurant system purchased more than 2 billion eggs in the U.S. in 2024.

The sandwich’s origin traces to 1971, when Herb Peterson presented the concept to Ray Kroc, and the Egg McMuffin has remained a breakfast staple for decades. David, son of Herb Peterson, reflected on that history in a statement last year: “When I watched my father introduce this idea to Ray Kroc, we could not have anticipated it would become the foundation for the renowned McDonald’s breakfast menu. It’s been remarkable to see people embrace this innovation over the last five decades, and now we get to share that heritage with a new generation of breakfast fans.”

McDonald’s corporate communications previously framed March 2 as National Egg McMuffin Day and used app offers to mark the occasion. In the 2020 corporate release, David Tovar, Vice President of U.S. Communications, said the company wanted to “honor our breakfast fans who have woken up with McDonald’s breakfast for nearly 50 years” and encouraged app redemption during a specified morning window.

For franchisees and store managers, the March 2, 2026 promotion was another example of using the mobile app to drive concentrated breakfast traffic around a legacy menu item that has been on the menu since 1971 and remains central to McDonald’s breakfast volume nationwide. The one-day, app-only $1 price point underscored how McDonald’s pairs heritage products with digital promotions to mobilize scale from a system that buys billions of eggs annually.