How food delivery repackaged itself for home dining
2 years, 10 months ago

How food delivery repackaged itself for home dining

Live Mint  

Fueled by a restaurant-crippling virus, food delivery fundamentally reshaped the way we dine during the pandemic. “We are emerging in a world in which more people are choosing to order dinner than go grocery shopping, more people have downloaded delivery apps, and more people are willing to try restaurants that only exist online,” he noted while speaking at the Food On Demand conference in Las Vegas in November. “Direct deliveries not only gave us better commission rates, profit margins, and control over data, but also created an opportunity to reach a wider set of people which food aggregators could not reach to due to limited delivery radius,” noted Sameer Seth, Partner, Hunger Inc Hospitality. “Thrive’s WhatsApp-enabled Commerce, a global first, will allow customers to directly order from restaurants via WhatsApp chat itself, right from browsing the menu to payments,” shared Thrive co-founder Dhruv Dewan. “It also takes away from the joy of on-premise dining.” Others, like Hitesh Keswani, CEO Silver Beach Hospitality, believe delivery erodes experience-based brands.

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These stock market stars are outpacing traditional stores in just ‘10-minutes’
2 weeks, 4 days ago

These stock market stars are outpacing traditional stores in just ‘10-minutes’

Live Mint  

Food delivery apps in India are promising to bring biryani to hot beverages at customers’ doorsteps in under 10 minutes, as competition for impatient consumers intensifies among digital platforms. Bolt accounts for 5% of Swiggy’s total food delivery orders within two months of its launch, Sidharth Bhakoo, chief business officer of food marketplace at Swiggy said in an email. “We …

No more apps: How saying goodbye to Big Food delivery changed the way I eat
1 month ago

No more apps: How saying goodbye to Big Food delivery changed the way I eat

Salon  

When my partner and I relocated to a new-to-us Chicago apartment — an antique-feeling number on the corner of the sixth floor — we made the mutual decision to forgo movers. Food delivery apps curate vast menus, spanning every conceivable cuisine, dietary preference and craving, transforming the act of choosing dinner into a delightful browsing experience. Having spent a decade …

Quick comm makes a dash for food deliveries
1 month, 1 week ago

Quick comm makes a dash for food deliveries

Live Mint  

The instant delivery model that stormed grocery shopping is building up in India's food segment as well, as more startups aim to follow in the footsteps of Swiggy Bolt and Zepto Café. Bengaluru-based Swish, which promises 10-minute food deliveries recently raised $2 million from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel, with participation from Urban Company’s Abhiraj Bhal and Varun Khaitan …

Why our improved shopping and cooking habits should continue post-lockdown
3 years, 5 months ago

Why our improved shopping and cooking habits should continue post-lockdown

The Independent  

With just nine days to go until the end of lockdown restrictions, I’ve been reflecting back on how much has changed when it comes to food shopping, due to the pandemic. From recipe delivery boxes to top quality meat and milk that needed to be diverted as its usual restaurant buyers were forced to temporarily close, and from DIY burger …

Delivery-only restaurant brands see pandemic-fueled growth
3 years, 10 months ago

Delivery-only restaurant brands see pandemic-fueled growth

Associated Press  

Do you know which restaurant cooked the meal you just had delivered? Delivery-only brands — cooked in another brand’s kitchen and often delivered by third parties like Uber Eats — were proliferating even before the pandemic. Tyga Bites, a chicken nugget brand from rapper Tyga, and Mariah’s Cookies, backed by singer Mariah Carey, are among the brands offered by Virtual …

Booming year for food delivery services in 2020
3 years, 11 months ago

Booming year for food delivery services in 2020

NL Times  

Grocery delivery services had a great time during the coronavirus pandemic. Last year food retailers like supermarkets and specialty shops saw deliveries increase by an estimated 49 percent, amounting to 2.7 billion euros in revenue, the Dutch Foodservice Institute said, NU.nl reports. Together the delivery services now account for 10 percent of the total expenditure on food and drinks. Had …

How restaurants adapted and mastered food deliveries
4 years, 1 month ago

How restaurants adapted and mastered food deliveries

Live Mint  

Restaurants went out of their way to incorporate deliveries in their menu, some more than others. On our app, we could offer good deals, communicate directly and even launch merchandise for our customers.” Indian Hotels Company, the hospitality company with the Taj hotels brand, also launched Qmin in June that serves signature dishes from their iconic hotels right to customers’ …

How restaurants adapted and mastered food deliveries
4 years, 1 month ago

How restaurants adapted and mastered food deliveries

Live Mint  

Restaurants went out of their way to incorporate deliveries in their menu, some more than others. On our app, we could offer good deals, communicate directly and even launch merchandise for our customers.” Indian Hotels Company, the hospitality company with the Taj hotels brand, also launched Qmin in June that serves signature dishes from their iconic hotels right to customers’ …

This is what it’s like to deliver food during a pandemic
4 years, 9 months ago

This is what it’s like to deliver food during a pandemic

LA Times  

With restaurants’ dining rooms closed, conventional wisdom would suggest that more people are ordering in. We would be super spreaders if we kept working and we were sick,” which he called a “horrifying thought.” DoorDash, Instacart, Postmates and Uber have pledged financial assistance to drivers who can’t work because of COVID-19, stating eligible drivers may receive up to two weeks …

Restaurants are pivoting to takeout and delivery. Will it be enough to survive?
4 years, 9 months ago

Restaurants are pivoting to takeout and delivery. Will it be enough to survive?

LA Times  

As fallout from the coronavirus pandemic began to hit the dining industry, delivery companies offered a rare concession to their restaurant partners. Delivery app Postmates Inc. said Tuesday it would waive commission fees for small businesses in San Francisco that sign up for a relief pilot program. On Friday, competitor Grubhub Inc. announced it would “suspend collecting up to $100 …

Fast food companies are betting big on delivery. It might not pay off
5 years, 4 months ago

Fast food companies are betting big on delivery. It might not pay off

CNN  

New York CNN Business — This is the golden age of food delivery. The shift to delivery is “profound,” said Noah Glass, founder and CEO of Olo, a business-facing food ordering platform that works with restaurant chains and delivery aggregators like Uber Eats.“It’s happening incredibly quickly and the stakes are incredibly high.” Partnering with delivery platforms can give restaurants access …

A Calmer You, By Sonal Kalra: Darn, these hunger games!
5 years, 4 months ago

A Calmer You, By Sonal Kalra: Darn, these hunger games!

Hindustan Times  

I do not normally go around making serious allegations against people, but I strongly suspect that Chaddha ji stole and ate my food yesterday. Why, yesterday when the apologetic customer service executive offered to give me a ‘make-good’ voucher for not delivering my prepaid food order, it didn’t take me a second to refuse it. For many in India, despite …

Food delivery fight grips small-town India
5 years, 6 months ago

Food delivery fight grips small-town India

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: Four months ago, it was a homecoming of sorts for 25-year-old Ankush Mohanrao. HT image “The two players know that there is a demand in smaller towns, and this aggressive expansion is a race to simply tap into that demand,” said Arpan Sheth, a partner at consulting firm Bain and Co. “The business model is definitely viable in smaller …

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