by Tom Kaiser | Jun 20, 2019 | Finance, News, Research
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...
by fodnews | Jun 6, 2019 | Finance, News
It’s been a rough eight months for Grubhub’s stock price, but the company is celebrating good news in the form of $400 million in new financing through a private offering. According to the company’s press release, $340 million of that cash pile will be used to repay...
by Nicholas Upton | May 29, 2019 | Finance, News, Third-Party Delivery
In a pre-holiday announcement, DoorDash announced another round of investor cash bringing its total haul to more than $2 billion and the company’s valuation to an incredible $12.6 billion. The San Francisco-based company, founded by CEO Tony Xu, announced the...
by Nicholas Upton | May 10, 2019 | Finance, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Waitr, one of the few public delivery companies (for now), just released some mixed, but mostly rosy, results from the first quarter of 2019. The big numbers, revenue and active diners, both rocketed skyward. Revenue was up 287 percent over last year and its active...
by Tom Kaiser | Apr 25, 2019 | Finance, News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
The exclusive contract between McDonald’s and Uber Eats was the biggest deal in the U.S. delivery industry to date, but it’s currently being renegotiated in an effort to lower fees for individual deliveries, according to a report from Bloomberg. Leadership at...
by Beth Ewen | Apr 25, 2019 | Best Practices, Finance, Third-Party Delivery
Just a few weeks into a test of delivery for Wetzel’s Pretzels, new CEO Jennifer Schuler counts two surprises, in a good way. “We all know the average ticket for delivery is higher; ours has been significantly higher,” with the number of items per invoice about 75...
