Tag: grubhub

Tech

Yelp Beats Earnings and Predicts Double-Digit Revenue Growth Through 2025

5 years ago

After much shareholder pressure to deliver, Yelp was ready for its moment in the sun after reporting earnings that easily topped Wall Street's estimates.

Chains

Grubhub Will Now Power Pizza Hut Delivery

5 years ago

This move makes sense for Pizza Hut, solely because Grubhub already operates the off-premise businesses of sister chains Taco Bell and KFC. So what if its industry pizza rivals with proprietary delivery make fun of it?

Tech

DoorDash Is Negotiating a $500 Million Funding Round

5 years ago

When Postmates confidentially filed for an IPO last week, we knew it was only a matter of time before rival DoorDash would try to shout louder with bigger news. In this case, nothing's confirmed, but DoorDash is looking at closing a round of funding that could push the company passed a $6 billion valuation.

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

Grubhub Breaks Down Its Chain Partnerships Strategy

5 years ago

It's no surprise that Grubhub is going after more enterprise restaurant relationships this year, and it says that it's the one to beat when it comes to the variety of technology support that it can offer to the nationwide chains.

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.

Tech

Grubhub Stock Plunges on Latest Earnings Report

5 years ago

Grubhub says it's not interested in short-term profits, which is great because it's not posting the short-term profits that investors want to see. The company's earnings forecast for the first quarter missed analyst estimates enough to send shares sliding as much as 21 percent on Thursday morning.

Operations

Dig Inn Launches In-House Delivery System

5 years ago

For the restaurateurs who can afford the upfront development costs, investing in a proprietary delivery system offers way better profit margins — and, often, a better customer experience — than third-party delivery services.

Chains

Restaurant Megatrends 2019: Forget Main Street, It’s the Year of the Suburb

5 years ago

As they race to dominate in the market, third party delivery companies are targeting large, suburban markets to fuel expansion. National chain partnerships boosted these efforts in 2018 and will continue to drive growth in 2019.

Tech

Postmates Reveals Its New Restaurant Delivery Robots

5 years ago

Postmates doesn't pay its delivery people well at all, so its focus on human replacements is no surprise. Why any contractors eeking by put up with it is.

Tech

Yum Brands’ Franchisees Don’t Pay Delivery Fees, Thanks to Grubhub Partnership

5 years ago

Yum Brands' size and scale allows it to negotiate much better deals on delivery partnerships, as executives outlined during the company's annual investor day. No wonder Taco Bell and KFC franchise owners are so excited to participate in the Grubhub integration.