Just Eat unifies its corporate catering business as it targets B2B growth
Just Eat has today rebranded its corporate ordering business City Pantry as ‘Just Eat for Business’. The company said it wants to leverage Just Eat’s scale to support the office catering marketplace at...
View ArticleLockdown sends takeaway food waste costs soaring by £17m
New research has shed fresh light on the ‘true cost’ of food waste from takeaways in the UK, and reveals how the impact of Covid-19 has changed our approach to the amount of food wasted. Some £1.8...
View ArticleFood delivery kitchens have corporate catering contracts in their sights
Food delivery companies have set their sights on in-office catering as the demand for variety and quality in business dining grows, a new report has suggested. In-office catering is the latest frontier...
View ArticleFood safety chiefs call for kitchen hygiene ratings to be made more visible...
Online food delivery company Just Eat today claimed to become the first to publish hygiene ratings for every restaurant on its platform. Customers can now see at a glance the latest Food Standard...
View ArticleJust Eat pays £16m to enter corporate catering market place
Just Eat has entered the B2B catering market place by snapping up City Pantry, a business that delivers food for office meetings, team lunches and events from more than 400 restaurants and caterers....
View ArticleTV comic forces Uber Eats to review food safety after exposing kitchen...
Comedian Joe Lycett has forced Uber Eats to review food safety after highlighting how easy it is to set up and serve food from the delivery firm’s app. On his new show ‘Got Your Back’, he accused Uber...
View ArticleJust Eat invests £1m in kitchen food safety programme
Food delivery provider Just Eat said yesterday that it is committed to investing £1m to raise food hygiene and safety standards across the UK takeaway sector. Under the new programme, it will work with...
View ArticlePOWER LIST 2018, MARKET MOVERS: Robin Clark, Director of Business...
The third party food delivery aggregators are having a massive impact on the way that restaurants are running their operations and adapting their kitchens, and Just Eat is certainly among the companies...
View ArticleJust Eat sees revenue rise 45% in half yearly reports
Online food order and delivery service Just Eat has released its half yearly financial reports, showing a 45% revenue increase. Compared with the same period last year, revenue went up from £246.6m to...
View ArticleJust Eat to ‘turbo-charge’ UK operation with plans to hire 150 tech...
Food delivery firm Just Eat has announced a huge recruitment drive to hire 150 tech specialists over the next three years in a sign of its intent to dominate the sector. The investment will...
View ArticleSubway delivery tie-up to reach 20% of UK stores by end of 2018
Subway plans to roll out food delivery from more than 500 stores nationwide by the end of the year following a partnership with Just Eat. The company confirmed last month that it had begun trialling...
View ArticleThe Restaurant Group strikes deals to penetrate food delivery market
A quarter of The Restaurant Group’s sites now offer delivery from its kitchens following a concerted effort to drive this part of its business in the last 12 months. The company, which owns Frankie...
View ArticleJust Eat restaurant saves £10k a year by exploiting centralised agreements
Just Eat claims that some of its restaurants are already saving more than 60% of the commission they pay it just through the dedicated membership services it provides – with one operator benefitting to...
View ArticleJust Eat ramps up services to the restaurant trade and vows to drive down costs
Robin Clark spends quite a few of his Sundays attending food awards. Pizza awards, Turkish kebab awards, Bangladeshi catering awards — if the cuisine can be found in the UK then there’s usually a...
View ArticleJust Eat explores catering equipment supply deals for restaurant partners
Online food order and delivery service Just Eat could facilitate the supply of catering equipment to the 30,000 restaurants it serves in the UK as part of plans to add more value to its customer base....
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: CMA clears way for delivery firms to merge their businesses
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared Just Eat’s acquisition of Hungryhouse, following an in-depth phase 2 investigation. A group of independent panel members found that the merger...
View ArticleJust Eat extends chain trial period in a bid to fend off competition
Takeaway ordering website Just Eat has followed suit of other food delivery operators to institute new chain restaurant offerings in a bid to trump its rivals. Just Eat makes the move to defend its...
View ArticleFear over bad deal for operators stalls Just Eat’s £200m rival merger
Just Eat’s planned £200m merger with competitor takeaway firm, Hungryhouse, has been put on hold after concerns emerged that the acquisition could mean poor terms for restaurant operators using the...
View ArticleProposed restaurant delivery merger faces in-depth investigation from CMA
Just Eat’s acquisition of Hungryhouse faces an in-depth merger investigation – unless the company can address competition concerns, it has emerged. Both companies provide online takeaway ordering...
View Article£90m Just Eat profit boom shows restaurant sector is in ‘rude health’
The UK takeaway market has hit a value of £6.1 billion and will continue to rise thanks to the “rude health” of the restaurant industry. That’s according to the CEO of takeaway ordering firm Just Eat,...
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