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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Sep- 2018 -20 SeptemberBusiness
Deliveroo to take on hotels and events with relaunched corporate offering
Deliveroo has announced that it will relaunch its revamped corporate offering, ‘Deliveroo for Business’, with aims to provide food delivery services to over 7,000 corporate customers in 15 minutes. The service, which launched in September 2016, is being extended with the addition of new features and services. Deliveroo said it…
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13 SeptemberAdvice
Using platforms to boost your restaurant sales
Using the right platforms can considerably increase your restaurant’s brand reach as well as boosting your profits. However they do need regular management to maximise revenues. In my restaurant, Firebrand Pizza we use a number of companies: Deliveroo We did try UberEats when we opened two years ago, but it…
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10 SeptemberFeatures
How is technology shaping the takeaway sector?
We love a takeaway in Britain, don’t we? It doesn’t matter if it’s pizza, Indian cuisine or a Chinese dish, we all enjoy diving into our food of choice in the comfort of our own home. Luckily, we have an abundance of takeaways to choose from in the UK. Here,…
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6 SeptemberApps & Technology
Wagamama joins Deliveroo Editions
From this week customers will be able to order meals from Wagamama cooked and prepared at Deliveroo’s purpose built, delivery only, “super kitchen” in Battersea. Wagamama’s Editions service will offer the same menu as its restaurants however Deliveroo says the dishes will be re-designed for delivery. Caleb Merkl of Deliveroo…
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Aug- 2018 -31 AugustBusiness
Brexit will force hospitality businesses to embrace the ‘now economy’
Brexit, coupled with a weaker pound, will push UK businesses to embrace the ‘now economy’ and use technology to plug staffing gaps with temporary workers, digital recruitment platform Adia has said. The group’s new white paper – Future of Flexible Work – Recruiting in the ‘now economy’ – says that…
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9 AugustPubs and Bars
Meatliquor to open new Battersea restaurant
Meatliquor has announced it will be opening a new restaurant on Northcote Road in Battersea. Battersea residents have previously been able to order the chain’s food through a Deliveroo Editions ‘dark kitchen’ in the area. Meatliquor said it saw good sales on its well-known menu items such as the Dead…
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Jul- 2018 -24 JulyApps & Technology
Deliveroo hits back at Frank Field report
Deliveroo has issued to a statement to Catering Today hitting back at MP Frank Field following his report into the working conditions of the company’s riders. The door-to-door app said that it welcomes Field’s comments regarding the benefits of ‘gig-economy’ work, but says his report makes “a number of claims…
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24 JulyApps & Technology
Frank Field report finds some Deliveroo riders ‘earning £2 per hour’
A report released today concluding a five-week investigation by MP Frank Field has found that some Deliveroo drivers are earning as little as £2 per hour. The MP demanded that Deliveroo riders were paid the minimum wage of £7.83 per hour, Field’s report said that the company kept an oversupply…
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23 JulyBusiness
Takeaway sector thrives amid restaurant struggles
The UK’s top 100 takeaway businesses have seen a 10% increase in turnover from £2.7bn from £2.46bn in the past year, research from credit broker Funding Options has found. Furthermore, profits at the UK’s top takeaway businesses have risen from £160m to £180m, a 13% increase. In contrast, the UK’s…
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23 JulyGovernment
Deliveroo urges government to back self-employed people
Deliveroo has called for the creation of a new Charter which would allow ‘gig economy’ companies to provide benefits to riders without compromising their self-employment status. This is in response to the government’s consultation on the issue of employment status, which ran from 7 February to 1 June 2018 and…
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