Deliveroo
Coverage explores third-party delivery’s role in UK hospitality, with a focus on logistics innovation, restaurant and chain partnerships, dark kitchen models, subscription services, and retail collaborations with brands like Waitrose, Co-op, and Morrisons. Reporting offers strategic insights for operators using or evaluating delivery platforms to drive off-premise revenue, streamline fulfilment, and respond to shifting consumer expectations in the food-to-go and convenience space.
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Jan- 2021 -12 JanuaryBusiness
Deliveroo to expand to 100 new towns in the UK
Deliveroo has revealed plans to expand into 100 new towns and cities across the UK, following a year of growth in 2020. The food delivery service which has seen an increase in demand since the pandemic, has said it will now launch for the first time in Yeovil, Bangor Northern…
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Dec- 2020 -23 DecemberFood and Drink
Deliveroo pledges to match customer tips
Deliveroo has announced its pledge to match customers’ in-app tips to local restaurants hit by Covid restrictions. The company said it will match tips paid to eligible restaurants up to a total value of £60,000 from today until midnight on Christmas Eve up to the value of £20 per tip.…
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16 DecemberNews
Restaurants face increased food wastage in Tier 3
The new tiered restrictions in London, Essex and Hertfordshire could see millions of pounds worth of food and drinks get thrown away, according to The Guardian. Kate Nicholls, chief executive for UKHospitality, told the paper that as with previous short-notice lockdowns, the new tiered restrictions will cause a “glut of…
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4 DecemberNews
Cocotte Rotisserie opens fourth London restaurant
Cocotte Rotisserie, a farm-to-table restaurant chain, has opened its fourth site in Queens Park, north-west London. The establishment, which opened for takeaway and dine-in on 2 December, joined Cocotte’s existing portfolio in Notting Hill, Shoreditch, and Parsons Green. The 40-cover restaurant has been designed with “chich, welcoming interiors”, alongside the…
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Nov- 2020 -25 NovemberApps & Technology
Deliveroo names Claudia Arney as chair
Deliveroo has named Claudia Arney as the company’s first chair, as the business gears up for a “year of growth”. Arney, who currently holds directorships at the Premier League, Ocado, Kingfisher and Derwent London was officially named leader today (25 November). News of the hire comes as Deliveroo experienced a…
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3 NovemberFood and Drink
Deliveroo pledges free meals to NHS workers
Deliveroo has relaunched its ‘Supporting the NHS’ campaign, with a new commitment to deliver “hundreds of thousands” free, hot meals to NHS frontline staff. Deliveroo said it “pledged” to donate hot meals to the NHS from Pizza Hut, Rosa’s Thai Cafe and other independent restaurants who will donate 500 meals…
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2 NovemberFeatures
Q&A with Jonathan Dockrell
What difficulties were there in opening the shop in Canary Wharf, especially during the pandemic? I suppose that the initial pain was getting people to fit the new kitchen in as you normally would. Usually you go in with relatively large teams and very quickly sort it so we’ve had…
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Oct- 2020 -27 OctoberFood and Drink
Delivery services saved 100,000 restaurant jobs, study finds
A new study by Capital Economics has reported that delivery services such as Deliveroo protected around 100,000 restaurant jobs in the UK from being lost or furloughed over the period between April and June. The survey shows that Deliveroo’s partners used the furlough scheme at a lower rate than the…
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22 OctoberFood and Drink
Wing Shack Co opens new kitchen in Canary Wharf
Wing Shack Co has announced the opening of its new delivery kitchen in Canary Wharf which will serve a 2.5 mile radius of the area. Wing Shack Co was founded in 2017 by Joshua Jarvis and Larry Shiro and currently operates out of three sites located in Loughton, Clerkenwell and…
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20 OctoberFood and Drink
Gourmet kebab chain set to open 12 new sites by end of year
German Doner Kebab (GDK) has confirmed it will open a total of 12 new branches by the end of the year creating 480 new jobs. The next five sites said to open are situated in Batley, Plymouth, Peterborough, Liverpool and London’s Bethnal Green. GDK was founded in Germany in 1989…
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