GrubHub Gobbles Up Yelp’s Eat24
By Tom Kaiser After forking over for Foodler in June, Grubhub purchased Eat24 from Yelp for $287.5 million, further solidifying its status as the leading provider of third-party food delivery. Investors celebrated Grubhub’s soon-to-be expanded menu and possibilities...
FOD Test Drives Delivery Service for Not-for-Profit
By Nancy Weingartner Monroe As a past-her-middle-age woman, I am not the typical meal-delivery driver. But I do have two of the primary skill sets needed for this task: I have a reliable car and a good attitude. And I care how people rate me. The downside is that I am...
NCR Partners to Eliminate Delivery Tablets in Restaurants
By Tom Kaiser A new partnership between point-of-sale giant NCR and delivery providers DoorDash and Grubhub aims to eliminate the separate tablets that have become a necessary evil for restaurants looking to add revenue through third-party delivery. For restaurants...August News Briefs
A Visual Guide to Industry Consolidation The sheer volume of M&A activity in the Food On Demand space is somewhat staggering. And it’s not just Grubhub buying things up. A Look at the industry from CB Insights shows the incredible volume of deal activity all...
Grubhub Partners with Groupon, Acquires ‘Certain Assets’
By Nicholas Upton The Lyft and Taco Bell partnership isn’t the only cooperation happening in the third-party delivery world. Grubhub and Groupon are working together and doing some light consolidation. Under a new agreement, Groupon users will be able to order food...
Lyft Drivers to Taco Bell: ‘You Stink’
Lyft and Taco Bell thought they had a match made in heaven, but the partnership has been dubbed “Taco Hell” by drivers. “Taco Mode” is now a publicized option for Lyft. Customers can call participating drivers and be driven through a Taco Bell while being transported...
Denny’s Sees 2Q Lift From ‘On Demand’ Platform
By Laura Michaels Off-premise sales gave Denny’s Corp. a boost in the second quarter, helping the brand mitigate the effects of what President and CEO John Miller called a “choppy performance” in the restaurant industry overall. During the company’s earnings call...
Cowen: Dining In is the New Dining Out
A new Cowen survey explores market implications of third-party delivery, showing some impressive growth and an incredible opportunity for restaurant investors. According to a proprietary survey of 2,800 consumers, research company, Cowen, found four “notable...
Amazon’s Beehives of Babylon
By Tom Kaiser After patent drawings illustrating beehive-like drone skyscrapers leaked, Amazon appears closer than ever to building the distribution infrastructure necessary to allow delivery drones to crisscross the skies above major cities. A mere week after the...
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.