February 17, 2015
GrubHub Rival Just Eat Expands Latin American Presence
Recently made public company and GrubHub rival Just Eat announced this week that they had bought out Mexican online take-out service SinDelantal.mx, adding it to the Spanish SinDelantal it had...
February 11, 2015
Yelp Acquires GrubHub Rival For $134M
As reported in VentureBeat on Feb. 10, restaurant locator and media site Yelp announced that it has bought out online food ordering company Eat24. The deal, which was closed on Feb. 9...
February 09, 2015
Rocket Internet Puts Stake In Food Delivery
German startup investment company Rocket Internet has added to its galaxy of food delivery partners by investing a 30-percent stake in take-out aggregator Delivery Hero, worth 496 million euros, Bloomberg reports....
February 06, 2015
GrubHub’s Delivery Play
The food on-demand delivery wars currently being waged between Google, Amazon and a host of start-up players had just gotten a new entrant: GrubHub. The company – which currently helps users...
December 29, 2014
Why Aren’t There Restaurant Apps That Do What You Want?
Why are so many restaurants so low-tech? Part of the reason restaurateurs aren’t interested in technology — and particularly mobile apps — is that they’re more interested in food and...
December 15, 2014
Why Commerce and Tech Companies Want To Deliver Grub
Big players in the payments space tend to have a knack for disrupting every market they enter. Look at Amazon and retail or Uber and cab services. They’ve stepped on...
December 15, 2014
The Ten Things That Changed Payments In 2014
Ah, yes, it’s the most magical time of the year. Predicting what the next year holds for all of us in payments. The internet is already filled with tons of...
June 27, 2014
Does Amazon Have A Local Takeout Service?
The easy answer is, yes. The slightly more complicated answer, almost. Multiple reports say that the e-commerce company plans to launch a marketplace for local services later this year. It...
June 27, 2014
Foodpanda Goes Cashless With Mobile Payment Option
A product of German Incubator—Rocket Internet— mobile food delivery app Foodpanda has often been accused of being behind the times in comparison to its competitors GrubHub or JustEat insofar as...
The gig economy has become an appealing option for American workers seeking flexible self-employment, but delayed payouts can quickly drive these workers into financial hardship, especially if the delays become a regular occurrence. In this month’s Expanding Payments Choice Playbook, a collaboration with Onbe, PYMNTS talked with Grubhub’s Mrugesh Bavda about how the food aggregator’s instant payments program improves its drivers’ financial freedom and loyalty.