Coronavirus Coverage, Resources and Reporting
In an unprecedented time, restaurants large and small are closing dining rooms, laying off staff, and scrambling to figure out off-premises solutions. Empty, closed-off dining rooms even in areas where it’s not mandated by local governments are certainly the most visible response to the ever-evolving COVID-19 pandemic.
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DoorDash Claims Customers Prefer to Order Direct Over Third-Party
Consumers would rather order delivery directly from a restaurant as opposed to a third-party provider. In its recent trend report, polling 1,525 respondents, DoorDash found 43 percent of its customers prefer to order delivery through a restaurant’s website or app,...
Self-Delivery Insurance Demystified, Somewhat
How much can you expect to pay to insure a delivery fleet? Well, that depends on many, many factors, but there are ways to de-risk the insurance and lower the cost for restaurants. As we explored last week with Dragontail's Ido Levanon, technology has brought...
Self-Delivery Gets a Fresh Look
Self-delivery at any meaningful scale tends to get written off as too complicated or too expensive. Restaurants need to figure out insurance, the technology to route drivers, more technology to make sense of the in-restaurant operations, and then they have to hire...
Delivery Analysts Project Pandemic Habits Are Hanging On
If delivery platforms can hold onto their intra-pandemic market share, as the report suggests, the delivery sector will grow significantly in 2021.
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 wonders what consumer habits will stick after the pandemic.
Sharebite Lands $15 Million to Scale
Sharebite, a mission-driven, food-ordering platform built for workplaces completed a $15 million Series A funding round to drive what it called “exponential growth.”
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 independent restaurants.
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.
Post-Pandemic, Alcohol Delivery Goes Mainstream
Countless states and cities loosened laws to allow delivery of alcohol during the pandemic’s early days, and now many of those bodies are making those changes permanent.
Round Table Pizza Rolls out First Delivery-Only Restaurant
Round Table Pizza has been slinging pizza since 1959 with delivery part of the concept for decades. Now, for the first time, a franchisee is operating with no storefront out of a shared-kitchen facility.
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