A big selling point of ordering food to the doorstep in China is price, which, in the early years, could be much cheaper than eating in-house. That’s arguably indulged a demographic of lazy, indoorsy eaters, but that may not last for much longer. Over the past few months, users in China have noticed incremental price […]
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Asian food delivery startup Chowbus raises $4M
Greycroft Partners and FJ Labs have led the round, with participation from Hyde Park Angels and Fika Ventures.
View More Asian food delivery startup Chowbus raises $4MPeople really loved bean burritos in 2018, according to Grubhub
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Looks like a lot of you snubbed carnitas in 2018. According to year-end data from Grubhub, the food that experienced the biggest surge on the delivery platform this year was the bean burrito.
Notably, the 2018 list featured zero red meat, although chicken made a strong showing. Of the top 10 items, which Grubhub defines as the items that surged the most, five were chicken: chicken slider (#3), chicken burrito (#5), chicken sandwich (#6), chicken and waffle slider (#8), and parmesan chicken (#9).
There were also two cauliflower entries — cauliflower rice bowl (#7) and buffalo cauliflower (ew, #10) — as well as one pork entry (baby back pork rib at #4) and one seafood entry (the ever-popular poke bowl at #2). We have long been skeptical of the delivery poke bowl — why not just go eat a fresh one? — but it looks like our fellow orderers do not agree. Read more…
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View More People really loved bean burritos in 2018, according to GrubhubLies, damn lies, and HQ2
There are few things certain in our world except for the uplifting tendencies of technology. I’ve spent the past few years trying to prove this to myself, at least, by interviewing hundreds of thinkers on the topic. I’ve come to a singular conclusion: when tech moves into a city, be it an iOS dev shop […]
View More Lies, damn lies, and HQ2Tiger Global returns with a $3M investment to help restaurants deal with delivery apps
Tiger Global has returned to backing early-stage Indian startups after it wrote a $3 million check for CheckMate, a U.S.-Indian startup the helps restaurant deals with the pain of multiple food ordering platforms. The deal is a Series A and it represents the first time that CheckMate has raised outside funding for its business. It […]
View More Tiger Global returns with a $3M investment to help restaurants deal with delivery appsGrubhub acquires payments and loyalty company LevelUp for $390M
Grubhub announced this morning that it’s agreed to acquire LevelUp for $390 million cash. Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told me that while previous Grubhub acquisitions like Eat24 were designed to give the company’s delivery business more scale, “This is kind of a different acquisition. It’s a product and strategic positioning acquisition.” LevelUp is based […]
View More Grubhub acquires payments and loyalty company LevelUp for $390MHallelujah, Grubhub will finally split your check for you
Food delivery diehards, the partnership you’ve been waiting for is finally here.
Grubhub, which also owns popular delivery apps Eat24 and Seamless, has announced that diners can now use Venmo to pay for their purchases on all three platforms.&#…
Judge rules GrubHub properly classified delivery driver as independent contractor
A few months after hearing closing arguments in the Lawson v. GrubHub case, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley has ruled Raef Lawson, the plaintiff, was indeed an independent contractor while driving and delivering food for GrubHub. “We’re extremely satisfied with today’s ruling in Lawson v. Grubhub, which validates the freedom our delivery partners enjoy from deciding when, where… Read More
Amazon has a service to compete with basically every consumer startup
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If a consumer startup exists, there’s a good chance Amazon is trying to kill it.
Headlines about the famously aggressive online shopping giant bulldozing through retail categories are nothing new, of course; it seems like every other day brings a new breathless news cycle about the threat it poses to a new industry.
Sometimes lost in the mix, though, are the various ways in which it’s undermining even smaller niche startup markets from housecleaning services to subscription boxes to restaurant delivery.
Amazon’s tendrils are growing into nearly every part of the e-commerce tech world. The company is so big that smaller efforts that may seem like an afterthought compared to its larger ambitions have the power to shake up sectors. Read more…
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UberEats is going to let you order food from ‘virtual restaurants’ that don’t exist IRL
Craving something, but UberEats doesn’t list it in your vicinity? The company has launched a novel way to tackle that issue.
Uber will soon serve up dishes from “virtual restaurants,” it announced Thursday.
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GrubHub made closing arguments defending 1099 independent contractor model
GrubHub was back in court today for closing arguments around the trial involving Raef Lawson, a former delivery driver for GrubHub, who is seeking a small, estimated sum of $586.56. This trial, Lawson vs. GrubHub, is looking to determine whether …
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