Just Eat

Coverage explores the role of one of the UK’s largest online food ordering platforms in the wider hospitality ecosystem — including restaurant partnerships, commission models, branded delivery fleets, logistics integrations, grocery expansion, and strategic alliances with major chains such as Greggs, McDonald’s, and Subway. Reporting provides actionable insight for operators navigating third-party fulfilment, digital ordering, consumer convenience, and last-mile delivery economics.

Jan- 2020 -

30 January

Restaurants

McDonald’s UK to open 60 restaurants in 2020

McDonald’s UK has revealed it is aiming to open a further 60 restaurants across the UK and Ireland as it prepares to invest £1bn over the next three years. The news comes as McDonald’s revealed that global sales for the year ending 31 December 2019 passed $100bn (£76.7bn), with consolidated…
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16 January

Food and Drink

Greggs partners ‘exclusively’ with Just Eat for nationwide delivery

Bakery chain Greggs has confirmed Just Eat as its exclusive delivery partner. Following a successful trial in London, Newcastle and Glasgow, Greggs said it has opted to work “exclusively” with Just Eat to provide its “food-on-the-go favourites” directly to the customer’s door. A further rollout will begin this week, adding…
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Dec- 2019 -

18 December

Apps & Technology

London restaurants go paperless with digital receipts

Giraffe, Ed’s Easy Diner, Slim Chickens, Japan Centre and Sakagura have announced plans to use digital receipts over paper ones. Partnering with digital receipts platform Flux, they join KFC, Itsu and Just Eat in moving to paperless receipt technology. Flux found that the use of digital receipts has risen by…
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2 December

Restaurants

Delivery platforms boost restaurant revenues in London, study suggests

A new report by Deloitte, issued by UberEats, has found that third-party platforms are helping restaurants sell an extra 1.6 million meals a week in London, Madrid, Paris and Warsaw, boosting the sector’s revenue. According to the report, new technology is helping restaurants respond to shifts in consumer preferences, better…
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Oct- 2019 -

24 October

Comment

Pizza Express: how to keep pizza on the menu and on the High Street

Recent news that Pizza Express, is engaging in ‘debt talks’ has sparked fears that it could be the next company to disappear from the high street. Will it be possible to turn the company’s fortunes around? In a sector as fast-moving as the UK restaurant industry, even small changes can…
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23 October

Business

Just Eat revenues jump 25% in Q3 results

Just Eat has reported a 25% increase in revenues to £248m in the three months to 30 September 2019. Its UK orders increased by 8% to 33 million, driven by rapid growth in its delivery proposition, which is now present in all key zones. Group orders also increased by 16%…
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Aug- 2019 -

13 August

Restaurants

‘Eatertainment’ helps to fuel sales at Caffe Concerto

The CEO of Caffe Concerto and LUX Group, Mohammed Borjak recently stated that a focus on “Eatertainment” in the food and beverage space has greatly contributed to the chains increasing popularity and “sales success” of Caffe Concerto. Borjak revealed that making its menu more accessible to a greater number of…
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Jul- 2019 -

5 July

Analysis

How smart tech is futureproofing the F&B sector

There’s no denying that we live in an age of digital dependency: a user interacts with – taps, types, swipes and clicks – their phone almost 3,000 times a day. By 2020, there will be six billion smartphone users worldwide and almost 75% of the global population will be connected…
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May- 2019 -

31 May

Analysis

The UK dining sector: A recipe for change

As concerns over Brexit mounted in 2018, consumer spending on the UK’s high streets was anything but “strong and stable”. One of the sectors most impacted was dining. Spend growth fell to just 3% year-on-year compared to 9% in 2017, according to our analysis of the transactions of over 2.5m…
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Mar- 2019 -

25 March

Analysis

Deliveroo – making the move from platform to operator

Last May, Deliveroo Editions announced that it would start bringing its own brands of food to market – and now we see Deliveroo stepping this up. In London, for example, Deliveroo Editions has six of its own brands offering food available from Crouch End in north London. The brands represent…
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