Hey, Groupon
has to do
something.
From recode:
We are a hungry people. And damn it, we just cannot for the life of
us have enough options for getting food from a restaurant into our
salivating mouths.
Luckily, the heavens produced GrubHub and Seamless and Delivery.com.
And then DoorDash and Postmates and Caviar. Oh, and Uber with its new
UberEats service. There’s Eat24, which Yelp gobbled up, and Tapingo to
feed the college masses. And there’s also that test Amazon is running in
Seattle, which is a little weird but we’ll take it, because we are so,
so hungry. But sometimes you kinda feel like ordering a meal from a
restaurant that doesn’t actually have seating — a place that’s all
delivery all the time. Munchery and Sprig can help you out with that.
Still, maybe, just maybe, we the hungry people of the United States
need one more delivery option. It turns out Groupon has our backs.
The company still best known for its daily deals said on Thursday
that it was launching its own restaurant delivery and pick-up service,
starting in Chicago and then expanding to other cities this year. Some
of the better known partners participating in the program are the
sandwich shops Quiznos and Subway, along with Popeye’s and Papa John’s.
Hundreds of local Chicago restaurants are taking part, too. The
announcement comes shortly after Groupon acquired OrderUp, a food
delivery startup that’s live in dozens of smaller cities.
Groupon’s pitch to us, the hungry people: A 10 percent discount on
all orders. Groupon is taking the hit on this, not the restaurant, and
essentially looks at it as a marketing expense....MORE
At about the same time the above was showing up in one feedreader, this was dropping from another:
Handpick’s Smart Groceries marries meal and grocery delivery
