Tag: food delivery

Chains

Chili’s Is ‘Close’ to Finding an Official Delivery Partner

5 years ago

Grubhub checks most of the boxes Chili's parent company is looking to fill, so that's our pick — if we had to guess.

Tech

Uber Eats Can’t Keep Both Restaurants and Investors Happy

5 years ago

Keeping all stakeholders happy may require Uber Eats to improve current relationships with eateries via marketing incentives or lower commission fees, perhaps at the expense of its own bottomline. Investors will surely not like that very much.

Tech

Uber Eats’ Chain Partnership Strategy Is a Risky Business

5 years ago

Uber Eats and Grubhub have both publicly cited losses on discounted fees charged to chain partners in financial documents. One can only imagine the case is the same for DoorDash, who's IPO is likely not far behind.

Tech

7 Things Uber’s IPO Filing Reveals About Uber Eats

5 years ago

Thanks to its parent company's IPO filing, we're finally learning more — officially — about the food delivery giant and how it expects to grow.

Tech

Chinese Food Deliverer Meituan Is Learning Quickly From Early Mistakes

5 years ago

By cutting its losses now, Meituan can better focus on its core battle against ele.me, the delivery service backed by Alibaba Group.

Tech

Just Eat Urged to Seek Merger With a Rival

5 years ago

Activist investor Cat Rock is growing more impatient by the day with Just Eat's lack of a CEO appointment. Somewhere Yelp is reading this understanding the UK company's pain.

Chains

Taco Bell and Chipotle Want to Shave Time off Food Deliveries

5 years ago

Thirty-five minutes is entirely too long to deliver fake Mexican food.

Tech

Postmates Files for IPO

5 years ago

Postmates pioneered the food-delivery industry almost a decade ago. Competitor Uber Eats is also expected to go public later this year by way of parent ride-hailing company Uber Technologies.

Chains

Chili’s Bets Big on Its New Value Menu

5 years ago

Chili's isn't all too concerned with converting value-focused customers into higher spenders at this point. The company is choosing to ride out the foot traffic momentum, at a time when many restaurants are struggling with the metric.

Tech

Munchery Shuts Down Abruptly After Multiple Service and Staff Cuts

5 years ago

In the end, Munchery taught all startups a valuable lesson: Make sure you have a profitable business model before expanding quickly.

Chains

Dine Brands Global’s Chains, Explained

5 years ago

Consider this a cheat sheet for all things happening at Dine Brands.

Chains

The Real Estate Strategy Behind Domino’s Effort to Improve Delivery Times

5 years ago

Fortressing is a smart way for Domino's to grow its store footprint and shorten delivery times, but at the same time it puts a lot of pressure on franchisees to find territory to build.