by Tom Kaiser | Aug 2, 2019 | News, Third-Party Delivery
DoorDash, the leading U.S. third-party delivery provider by market share, has entered into an agreement with Square to buy its Caviar delivery brand for $410 million in cash and DoorDash preferred stock. This huge acquisition underscores DoorDash’s recent gains...
by Nicholas Upton | Aug 1, 2019 | Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
After writing about the new deal with Cold Stone Creamery parent, Kahala Brands and DoorDash, folks in our office got a strong hankering for some ice cream. We decided to take on the hard work of putting Cold Stone’s delivery to the test to see how well it can deliver...
by Nicholas Upton | Jul 25, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
A new survey from US Foods digs into the grievances consumers have with third-party delivery and provides some eye-popping insight into some of the less-than-ethical things couriers do on the job. The food supplier conducted a national survey of 1,500 delivery...
by Tom Kaiser | Jul 17, 2019 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
McDonald’s is opening up its delivery relationship, announcing via a press release that it signed a contract to make DoorDash its second third-party delivery provider, effectively ending its exclusive deal with Uber Eats that was viewed by many industry watchers as a...
by Nicholas Upton | Jul 17, 2019 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
When a restaurant operator has thousands of locations across all 50 states, a national delivery contract makes a lot of sense to get the best deal from third-party delivery networks. Which is why Kahala, the parent company of everything from Blimpie, Baja Express,...