Analyst: Restaurant Losses Will Hurt Delivery Providers Unevenly
Delivery providers may be reporting a surge in orders as COVID-19 keeps diners at home, but the pandemic is expected to hurt more in the long term, according to a Wells Fargo financial analyst. In a research note from John Power, a senior analyst at Wells Fargo who...
Delivery Fee Caps Pop Up Across the Country
Sparked by a San Francisco decision to cap third-party delivery fees, several other U.S. cities are implementing or discussing their own cap-limitations in the name of helping restaurants. San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the 15-percent fee cap is “part of a...
Ruby Tuesday Parent Launches Host Kitchen Concept
Don’t call it a ghost kitchen and certainly don’t call it a virtual restaurant: The parent company of Ruby Tuesday has launched a new initiative called Franklin Junction that introduces a new delivery-focused model that it calls “host kitchens.” At its core, the plan...
CEO of NYC-Based Delivery.com: “This is our 9/11”
NYC-based Delivery.com is national in scale through a franchise model, but smaller than rivals like DoorDash, Uber Eats and Postmates. From its vantage point, it is seeing a tale of two cities as the pandemic hammers both car-based suburban markets, which are somewhat...
Third-Party Sales up Slightly, Market Share Shifting
New data shows that COVID-19 is potentially “even-ing the playing field” for third-party delivery. That’s according to Sense360, the data and analytics firm that measures foot traffic, proprietary survey data and gleans insights from the payment data of 5 million...
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