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Calculating Delivery’s Impact on Restaurant Margins
There’s a running conversation in the restaurant industry about delivery’s impact on margins, and now investment advisor Hedgeye Risk Management has crunched the numbers in a range of scenarios, including how much delivery impacts the total volume, as well as...
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Why Dunkin’ Inked a Close Deal with Grubhub
When a big brand jumps into delivery, there’s a big decision to make: Do you open the brand to every delivery provider possible to meet the delivery consumer everywhere or forge a deeper partnership with a single partner? For Dunkin’ Brands, the answer was a close...
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Newk’s Sticks to Its Guns While Growing Delivery, Catering
As the VP of off-premise sales at Newk’s Eatery, Courtney Smith and her team are tasked with helping the 127-unit restaurant brand grow delivery and catering sales, while also helping franchisees make sense of a quickly morphing industry. Their work entails...
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New Tool Could Help with Delivery Calculus
Incrementality, margins, cannibalization and the true impact of third-party delivery on a restaurant business can become to be tricky math really fast. And that math is essential to move from testing the waters of third-party delivery to learning to swim. So to get a...
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DoorDash, Chain Restaurants Setting the Pace in Delivery
DoorDash is adding the most new restaurants to its platform compared to its competitors, driving significant market share gains for the largest U.S.-based delivery provider, according to a new study from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Now with more than 233,000 restaurants...
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Sweetgreen Buys Galley Foods Meal Delivery Service
Sweetgreen, the healthy fast-casual brand that’s widely considered an early adopter of tech in the restaurant space, is also thinking big with its purchase of Galley Foods, a Washington, D.C.-based meal-delivery service that uses organic ingredients in its...
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Calculating Delivery’s Impact on Restaurant Margins
There’s a running conversation in the restaurant industry about delivery’s impact on margins, and now investment advisor Hedgeye Risk Management has crunched the numbers in a range of scenarios, including how much delivery impacts the total volume, as well as...
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Why Dunkin’ Inked a Close Deal with Grubhub
When a big brand jumps into delivery, there’s a big decision to make: Do you open the brand to every delivery provider possible to meet the delivery consumer everywhere or forge a deeper partnership with a single partner? For Dunkin’ Brands, the answer was a close...
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Calculating Delivery’s Impact on Restaurant Margins
There’s a running conversation in the restaurant industry about delivery’s impact on margins, and now investment advisor Hedgeye Risk Management has crunched the numbers in a range of scenarios, including how much delivery impacts the total volume, as well as...
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New York City Looking Into Grubhub Charges
Details are few, but multiple reports suggest the New York City Council is looking into fees charged to restaurants by Grubhub and other delivery providers. First reported by the New York Post, a hearing is scheduled by the city council’s Committee on Small Business...
read moreConsumer Reports Rates Grocery Delivery Services
Looking at which online grocery delivery brands offer the freshest food the fastest and most cost-effectively, Consumer Reports just published a ranking that listed Target-owned Shipt as the best groceries-on-demand service. Consumer Reports is a subscription-based...
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Summer Orders: Less Soup, More Poke
Bite Squad, now a subsidiary of Waitr, released data around what people order during the summer months. In a list predicting this summer’s fastest-growing delivery items, the company pointed to high-growth items seen last summer between June 1 and August 31. This...
read moreUber is Building Virtual Restaurants Too?
Like Deliveroo overseas and DoorDash in the U.S., Uber is testing its own virtual kitchen concept. While the company hasn’t officially announced a delivery-only kitchen, an unnamed Bloomberg source told the publication that Uber has been leasing kitchen space in Paris...
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Burger & Lobster Launches First-Ever Full-Size Lobster Delivery
New York’s Burger & Lobster restaurant is launching what it calls the “first-ever hot, full-size” lobster delivery in the big city. Announcing the news on Valentine’s Day, the British-born restaurant brand is hoping fresh Atlantic lobsters become a tempting...
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Drones and Robots Flock to CES
Delivery and personal robots and underwater and aerial drones were on display at the 51st annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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