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Self-driving food delivery robots hit UK streets
The era of automated takeaway delivery is upon us – after it was revealed this week that a dozen restaurants in London are involved in trials using unmanned robots. The initiative is being led by Just...
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SPECIAL REPORT: Who’s claiming the biggest slice of the pizza market?
It’s no secret that operators are beginning to see the value of cashing in on the £5 billion pizza market. Combined, pizza and Italian restaurants account for more than half of the market value (59%)...
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This year’s UK takeaway market bolts out of the blocks
The UK’s biggest pizza delivery chain estimated that it would cook 300,000 pizzas for one million customers on New Year’s Day. It predicted in December that it would see 416 pizzas ordered every...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Home delivery in Britain growing 10 times faster than...
The delivery channel in Britain’s eating-out foodservice market (known as out-of-home or OOH) was worth £3.6 billion last year, up 6% on the previous 12 months, it was revealed today. The growth means...
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,...
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 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 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 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 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....
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Just 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 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 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 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...
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Just 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 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...
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POWER 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...
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Just 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...
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TV 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...
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Just 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....
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