Delivery Analysts Project Pandemic Habits Are Hanging On
What was once a pandemic necessity may be becoming habit. In a report issued by Wells Fargo, analysts including Brian Fitzgerald and Jon Tower project that delivery will hold onto its intra-pandemic market share or even grow as restaurant sales rebound during the...
Hello Fresh Up, Blue Apron Down as Restaurants Reopen
Fortunes are diverging among the largest meal kit providers, Blue Apron and Hello Fresh, as the meal kit industry awaits the answer to the same question many are asking in the restaurant delivery space: what consumer habits will stick after the pandemic? Since the...
Sharebite Lands $15 Million to Scale
Sharebite, a mission-driven, food-ordering platform built for workplaces, announced it completed a $15 million Series A funding round to drive what it called “exponential growth” and further expand into the corporate food-ordering space. Lafayette Square led this...
Grubhub, Greg Hill Foundation Expand Restaurant Strong Fund
Grubhub and The Greg Hill Foundation’s Restaurant Strong Fund announced the latest phase in their commitment to supporting restaurants: the Restaurant Stronger program, a new initiative to provide $5,000 grants to eligible independent restaurants. As the...
DoorDash Neary Triples Revenue, Narrows Q1 Loss
Investors celebrated as DoorDash released its first quarter 2021 financial results showing the leader in the U.S. delivery scene nearly tripled its quarterly revenue to $1.08 billion, increased its gross order volume to $9.9 billion and saw average order rates that...
Outstanding Operators
Food On Demand Outstanding Operators features restaurant brands with innovative operations that are taking creative paths to success with delivery and all things off-premises.
