Emerging on-demand delivery service ASAP.com announced Thursday (Oct. 20) the launch of home and office delivery in New York City. As workers return to their offices, many food and beverage (F&B) businesses are pivoting to workday lunch to create new occasions and revenue streams. The...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based delivery startup Gopuff has cut hundreds of workers as part of an earlier round of layoffs over the summer. Bloomberg News reported on the about 250 job cuts Wednesday (Oct. 19), citing sources familiar with the matter. Some employees told Bloomberg the cuts...
Uber Eats may be able to succeed in the quick commerce space where ultrafast grocery startups failed. The aggregator announced Tuesday (Oc. 18) its first such initiative in the United Kingdom under the name Uber Eats Market, in partnership with British supermarket chain Iceland Foods....
Two months after announcing a plan to pull out of the Netherlands, United Kingdom-based food delivery aggregator Deliveroo has made it official. “Following consultation with employees and riders, Deliveroo has determined that achieving and sustaining a top-tier market position in the Netherlands would require a...
While food delivery on demand is here to stay, restaurants may still find it makes more sense to focus on their takeout business given consumers’ shifting preference for pickup. By the Numbers Research from the June edition of PYMNTS’ Digital Divide study, “The Digital Divide:...
DoorDash is looking to supplement its delivery revenue via a new advertising feature focused on the large and deep-pocketed stable of consumer-packaged goods (CPGs). The San Francisco-based restaurant aggregator announced Monday (Oct. 17) the launch of new self-serve advertising tools for consumer-packaged goods (CPG) brands...
Same-day food delivery startup Instacart reportedly cut its internal valuation for the third time this year as it continues to advance plans for an initial public offering (IPO) amid falling prices and market volatility. The reduction represents a two-thirds drop from its $39 billion value...
Restaurants looking to attract millennial customers and drive up average order value would be best suited to look to their digital channels rather than their on-premise business. For PYMNTS’ study The 2022 Restaurant Digital Divide: Food Aggregators Find Their Footing In Q2, we surveyed more...
When it comes to last-mile logistics, drone delivery is one of the technologies gaining traction with the promise to transform the way consumers receive goods and supplies. But while there have been a few instances of successful drone delivery schemes in the U.S., the Federal...
