Food Delivery Apps Change The Restaurant Scene
Source：Bloomberg
From：Taiwan Trade Center Chicago
Update Time：2019/01/24
With the ubiquity of food delivery apps such as DoorDash, Postmates, GrubHub and UberEats, people are eating restaurants foods but they are doing so at home rather than going out to eat at the restaurant itself. Ordering food via an app is becoming easier and easier for restaurant customers. Food delivery apps downloads have increased 380% compared to 3 years ago, and it is predicted that delivery sales in the US will rise an average of 12% a year to $76 billion in the next 4 years. In response to this shift, restaurants are changing how they do business. Restaurants are adjusting their locations to accommodate the increased demand for delivery or pickup orders. New restaurants are foregoing in house dining all together. Instead restaurants are leasing space with kitchens purely to prep food for delivery orders. These kitchens only restaurants are known as ‘cloud kitchens’ and rely entirely on food delivery apps to serve their customers. Large fast food chains are taking notice of this shift in customer’s demand for deliver via apps. In August 2018, McDonald’s announced a $6 billion redesign of the company’s US restaurants. Included in this update is designated parking spots for mobile order pickups. Showing that food delivery apps are the future of the restaurant industry.
Source ： Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-29/restaurants-shrink-as-food-delivery-apps-get-more-popular?srnd=checkout