Uber Eats is an American online food ordering and delivery platform launched by Uber in 2014. Its application connects anyone with a broad range of local restaurants and food, so they can order from the full menus of their local favorites.
January 12, 2021Aggregators like to aggregate, clearly. They do it better than ever these days. And as goes the business of platform aggregators, so goes PYMNTS’ latest Provider Ranking of Aggregator Apps.
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November 20, 2020 Winter is around the corner, bringing colder temperatures and prompting many restaurants to question whether their operations can survive the season.
Many quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have taken their dine-in services outdoors ...
November 11, 2020Uber‘s food delivery business, Uber Eats, is betting it will continue to see success even after the pandemic ends, according to Bloomberg.
The company has seen continued success in the months-long ...
November 5, 2020It was an eventful week for Uber.
Fresh off a victory at the polls that could have upended its business model, the company projected a confident stance in all areas of ...
October 8, 2020 The ongoing pandemic has hit few industries as hard as it has hit the restaurant industry, with stay-at-home guidelines and social distancing forcing many eateries to shut their doors either ...
October 6, 2020The ongoing pandemic is devastating the restaurant industry, with eateries leaning heavily on mobile ordering to make up for declines in walk-in traffic.
Restaurants are gradually opening dining rooms and patios ...
September 14, 2020Digital advancement is the theme in the news from the world of food right now, with digital upgrades powering recent strong earnings results for Kroger and Chipotle. Whole Foods also ...
September 14, 2020In today’s top news, Uber Eats added a contactless ordering feature for users who are dining in, and U.S. consumer sentiment looks uncertain as the holiday shopping season draws near. ...
September 14, 2020Uber Eats has introduced a contactless ordering feature that will work when diners are eating in a restaurant as the fight against COVID-19 continues.
USA Today reported the “Uber Eats Contactless ...
September 3, 2020The difficulties restaurants face with big delivery platforms like Grubhub or Uber Eats have been extensively cataloged. Critics claim the platforms take too big a bite out of restaurants’ revenues, ...
August 19, 2020 Dine-in restaurants have taken a beating during the COVID-19 pandemic, but those that have shifted to digital channels and relied on third-party mobile apps have kept business flowing. Eateries are staying afloat by turning ...
August 18, 2020Uber Technologies Inc. has introduced a monthly membership designed for anyone who relies on the ride-hailing company for transportation or meal delivery.
“Whether you’re a parent juggling hungry mouths at home, ...
August 18, 2020Restaurant delivery-app downloads have spiked 50 percent since the pandemic’s onset, but with it comes the increased risk of fraud, says Eric Bevins, director of operations services at fast casual ...
August 17, 2020Uber says it will continue operating food delivery business Uber Eats in California even if its main ridesharing business is forced to shut down on Friday (Aug. 21) because of ...
August 17, 2020 A growing number of quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are relying on third-party delivery services such as DoorDash, Grubhub and Postmates to quickly and conveniently deliver food to customers’ doorsteps.
These services have ...
August 7, 2020Before Q2 2020, Uber was the innovator that launched the concept of a digitally backed ridesharing business with a growing side hustle in the world of delivery.
As of Q2, Uber ...
July 27, 2020Uber Eats and Carrefour, the French supermarket and department store under one roof, announced an agreement covering deliveries beyond Paris and in Belgium.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the Monday (July 27) ...
July 1, 2020It’s a weird year all around, and that certainly applies to the world of mobile apps for order aggregators. PYMNTS’ latest Provider Ranking of Mobile Aggregators reflects heated competition, serious ...
June 30, 2020Uber Technologies may have lost out on a bid to buy Grubhub this month, but that hasn’t stopped the global ride-hailing company from setting its sights on another food delivery ...
June 25, 2020Uber financial services leader Peter Hazlehurst has stepped down from his position as the rideshare company has put its plan to start a digital wallet on hold, Bloomberg reported.
The company ...
June 18, 2020 The pandemic is having monumental impacts on restaurants’ operations and interactions with potential diners, pushing to the forefront services that offer quick and seamless online ordering tools to reach customers ...
June 15, 2020To say that last week was an active week of news in the restaurant world would be an understatement. First the much-anticipated Uber-Grubhub deal went up in smoke under the threat of antitrust ...
June 12, 2020It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have ...
June 12, 2020DoorDash Inc. is expected to receive new funding that would value the nation’s largest on demand meal delivery company at $15 billion even before the deal closes, The Wall Street ...
June 10, 2020It looks like a much-anticipated Uber Eats-Grubhub merger that might have changed the entire food delivery landscape won’t be coming to fruition after all. Uber is reportedly looking increasingly likely to pull ...
June 10, 2020Less than two years after Uber Eats leased kitchens in Paris to restaurateurs so they can prepare food for its online ordering and delivery platform, the San Francisco-based company has ...
June 9, 2020In an effort to help organizations bolster client loyalty and employee engagement, Uber for Business is rolling out vouchers for Uber Eats. The Uber division said the vouchers provide organizations ...
June 2, 2020Another major obstacle has emerged in Uber’s bid to buy Grubhub: The food-delivery service wants a big payoff if federal regulators nix the deal.
As previously reported in this space, some ...
May 27, 2020MoneyGram is partnering with Uber in order to offer discounts on money transfers to over 200 countries and territories, a press release states.
The discount is available to anyone who earns ...
May 26, 2020As India sees COVID-19 cases quickly climb for the seventh day in a row as of Tuesday (May 26), Uber, like most businesses in the country, is seeing a severe ...
May 22, 2020Zomato, an India-based food delivery startup, is reportedly being investigated by regulators for its purchase of Uber Eats India, which could be seen as violating the nation’s anti-competitive rules, sources ...
May 18, 2020Restaurants face a tough fight, with a mere 40 percent survival rate in their first year. That fight is becoming more challenging amid the COVID-19 outbreak, with QSRs facing an ...
May 18, 2020Restaurants operators are being met with unprecedented economic fallout from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as they have been forced to get by on delivery and pickup order revenues. Full-service restaurants ...
May 15, 2020As restaurants seek help to survive the economic impact of COVID-19, lawmakers are implementing a temporary limit on how much delivery companies can charge.
On Wednesday (May 13), New York City became the ...
May 14, 2020The possible merger between Uber and Grubhub is causing a wave of worry over delivery fees at a time when some local officials are considering instituting caps, as the New ...
May 13, 2020A potential merger of Uber and Grubhub would create a major powerhouse in the food ordering and delivery business.
In the ongoing series of PYMNTS Provider Rankings that track mobile-app markets, ...
May 8, 2020To get a sense of how the pandemic can affect companies differently – even competitors in the same vertical, jockeying for position, for mindshare, for wallet share – consider the ...
May 7, 2020Uber reported on Thursday (May 7) that Uber Eats bookings and revenues soared more than 50 percent during the first quarter – a tasty morsel amid generally unappetizing results that ...
May 4, 2020In eight countries, it appears that the parent company has decided Uber Eats fails to deliver the desired market clout. As a result, Uber is dropping its online food delivery ...
April 28, 2020With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic still keeping people at home, Uber could be in dire straits, facing potentially laying off 20 percent of its workforce, according to Axios.
The layoffs are ...