by fodnews | Mar 13, 2019 | Briefs, News, Research
Like Deliveroo overseas and DoorDash in the U.S., Uber is testing its own virtual kitchen concept. While the company hasn’t officially announced a delivery-only kitchen, an unnamed Bloomberg source told the publication that Uber has been leasing kitchen space in Paris...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 26, 2019 | Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
There have been a handful of watershed moments in the third-party delivery space these last few years: Grubhub going public in 2014; Target buying Shipt in 2017; and DoorDash raising three-quarters of a billion dollars during 2018. With the latest news that DoorDash...
by fodnews | Feb 26, 2019 | News
Fresh off a Valentine’s Day sugar high for the restaurant industry at large, Yelp announced strong growth in its restaurant services offering, including a record-setting V-day week where its reservation and waitlist software assisted 5.6 million diners. “This momentum...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 15, 2019 | News, Third-Party Delivery
With San Francisco-based Postmates filing to go public later this year, the cohort of publicly traded delivery providers is swelling to three, a boon for anyone tracking the behind-the-scenes financials of this still-growing, not-always-profitable segment of the...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 7, 2019 | News, Third-Party Delivery
As Grubhub is set for a boost in visibility thanks to a new national ad campaign touting its partnership with Taco Bell, the largest U.S. delivery provider disappointed Wall Street investors during this morning’s fourth-quarter earnings call that showed solid order...