by Tom Kaiser | Aug 12, 2021 | Briefs, News, Third-Party Delivery
DoorDash has unveiled DoubleDash, new functionality that allows customers to order from multiple restaurants or retailers in a single order with no additional delivery fee or minimum order sizes, removing a major barrier for the largest U.S. delivery provider to...
by Arthur Robert | Aug 5, 2021 | COVID-19, News, Third-Party Delivery
New York City Council passed a raft of bills last week that would significantly alter the relationship between NYC restaurants and third-party delivery services. The bills include: Extending the city’s 20-percent fee cap through February 17, 2022. Previously...
by Tom Kaiser | Jul 29, 2021 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
DoorDash is going bigger with ghost kitchens as it introduces DoorDash Kitchens Full Service, a new model allowing restaurants to license their brands and outsource many of the tasks associated with opening a new location, including hiring, meal preparation and...
by Tom Kaiser | Jul 15, 2021 | Best Practices, COVID-19, News, Top Stories
After soaring through the pandemic, Starbird has dramatically scaled up its small footprint and grown same-store sales 36 percent during the first half of 2021 as it begins to franchise the upscale fast-food brick-and-mortar brand, which also includes four successful...
by Emili Raeder | Jul 15, 2021 | Briefs, COVID-19, News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
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,...