by Laura Michaels | Apr 10, 2019 | News, Research, Top Stories
Much is made of the perceived leverage third-party services have over the restaurants whose food they deliver, but in reality, “Operators have the real leverage because the third-party apps need you as much as you need them.” That was the conclusion from Eli Portnoy,...
by Beth Ewen | Apr 3, 2019 | News, Top Stories
Adam DeWitt, Grubhub’s president and chief financial officer, was recruited to the Chicago-based delivery player in part because he previously was CFO of a publicly held firm so knew the drill. In 2011 Grubhub had $20 million in revenue and in 2018 topped a...
by Beth Ewen | Apr 3, 2019 | News, Top Stories
Chef Ivan Orkin, known as Ivan Ramen and the keynote speaker at the Food On Demand Conference April 1-2, recalls many times and people that fed his “obsession with hospitality.” Chief among them was one of his first jobs at a very famous restaurant, a four-star New...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 28, 2019 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Combining proximity-based aspects of Tinder and Nextdoor with food delivery, Postmates’ new “Party” feature gives customers the ability to save money ordering from popular restaurants by showing a list of places people in in your neighborhood are currently ordering...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 28, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
DoorDash has now edged ahead of Grubhub with 38 percent of the U.S. restaurant delivery market, according to revised data from last year’s Edison Trends market share report, which was updated. Grubhub is now second, at 27 percent; with UberEats in third at 25....
by Nicholas Upton | Mar 20, 2019 | Best Practices, News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Checkers and Rally’s is taking on delivery in a big way, going all in with every provider it can get and maybe changing the delivery game along the way. Checkers has around 900 locations, with about 300 of those corporate locations. So it’s not as large as the big QSR...
