How Food Delivery Apps changes the Food Market

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Home-made food is always the best option for anyone but what when you come back from your hectic work schedules, slump on the couch, and trying to find some cooked meal!!!!

Obviously, most of the time there’s no food in the fridge.

At that time you really need to order some food from restaurants that will bring good food to you of your choice, time, and within your budget. Thus, food delivery apps have become a strong source of your food requirement. These apps allow customers to order their food online with speed and efficiency than ever before.

These apps only required your delivery location, and you need to select your favourite cuisine from hundreds of restaurants in your area according to satisfied customers’ reviews. And you can use this without leaving your couch. So, the best food delivery apps will bring a delicious meal to your doorstep.

The Popularity of Food Delivery Apps

Traditionally, food delivery allowed a customer to place an order via phone call and get it delivered to his/her doorstep within the specified time. But evolving lifestyle, urbanization, a rise of mobile technologies emphasize the mobile apps use for food. Apps like Ubereats and GrubHub are well-known best food delivery apps. The following are some features that a food delivery app must include:

  • User-friendly Interface
  • Live order tracking and sends push notification
  • Able to handle bulk orders at a time
  • Secure payment gateway
  • Improved ordering accuracy
  • Integrate with rewards, offers, and discounts to attract customers
  • Reduces human effort

Some important facts:

  • In 2019, online Food Delivery revenue amounts to 95,413 million dollar globally.
  • The area on which the online food delivery market is based is restaurant-to-consumer delivery.
  • In the year, 2019 to 2023, the annual revenue growth rate of a restaurant to consumer segment is expected to be 8.9%. And that for the platform to consumer delivery is expected to be 11.9%.

Food delivery is now in trend and experts found that now consumers preferred to buy food through a delivery app rather use of restaurants. But the increase in demand creates a question that which food app should you actually use??? So, here we are going to discuss some best food delivery apps:

Seamless 

The Seamless app is the easiest way to order and food delivered. The Seamless is the restaurant finder app as well as a food delivery finder, available for both iOS and Android. It offers 24X7 service for you where you place an order according to your mood, choice, and time. Except this, it offers in-app discounts. It is a leading online and mobile food delivering platform that connects your hunger with local restaurants.

Key Points

  • Provided around 5 billion dollars of gross food sales to local takeout restaurants in 2018
  • Organizes around 521,000 order daily
  • Serves 19.3 million active diners
  • Available in more 600 cities in the United States
  • No fee to use the app, but required a minimum amount of order

GrubHub

The GrubHub app is the restaurant finder app as well as food delivery finder, available for both iOS and Android. With GrubHub, you simply need to enter your delivery address and you will get the list of all the restaurants near to you. Now, you are free for any cuisine search of your choice. GrubHub also facilitates you to save the delivery locations, such as work or home that speed up the ordering process.

Key Points

  • The app is free for use
  • Available at more than 900 cities
  • Sends alert for tracking order and to update
  • Saves last delivery address and payment method for next time use
  • Delivery fee is sometimes charged by selected restaurants

DoorDash

Doordash is a California based delivery service that offers some exciting features, such as 'Doordash Delight 'Scoring System. This scoring system relies on factors like food quality, restaurant popularity, delivery-time, and customer satisfaction, which help anyone choose the best restaurant in your area.

Key Points

  • Available in almost 1200 cities, including Atlanta, Seattle, Boston, New York, and Chicago, among others
  • Provides easy User Interface that easy to use and beautiful in look
  • The fee varies by a restaurant to restaurant
  • Does not force minimum order service
  • Provides real-time order tracking and fast delivery speed

Ubereats

Ubereats are available in almost all major cities in the world. It is a trusted service for safe driving or to fulfill your food cravings. You just need to sign up into your Uber account. Then you need to allow Ubereats to fetch your location and show the list of nearby restaurants, registered in the Ubereats.

It is a different delivery app that shares many of the features at the time of food ordering, such as estimated delivery times and cashless transactions.

Key Points

  • Charges 5 dollar delivery fee
  • Easy navigation to fast-food chains and local restaurants
  • Has 70+ cuisine categories
  • Includes foodphotos and reviews

Delivery comes with challenges

Whether you are in the food delivery business or use the food delivery   as a user, you need a better understanding of your needs. Without it, you leave lots of money on the table. So not having proper knowledge, a user may miss the discounts and rewards offers by the restaurants, and businessman may leave the valuable and permanent customers. So, you need to smartly choose the app development agency that finds out your basic requirements, decides your need and put it into the online food delivery app.