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Restaurateurs: the evaporated billions of home delivery

2020-12-15T12:40:40.503Z


CHRONICLE - The number one food delivery company in the United States, DoorDash, has made a record IPO. At the expense of restaurateurs?


In cities that did not know any confinement or curfew, it happened to get to the restaurant to take a taxi or a VTC.

The distribution of roles was clear.

Customers paid for the taxi on one side and the restaurant owner on the other.

It would have seemed incongruous for the driver to ask them, in addition, for a portion of the menu they were going to order.

This is the tour de force that home meal delivery applications have achieved.

We now know the value of this model: 72 billion dollars.

For its first day of listing on the Wall Street Stock Exchange last Wednesday, the action of the number one American meal delivery home, DoorDash jumped 78%, allowing it to raise $ 3.37 billion.

The start-up holds half of the market in the United States, ahead of Grubhub and Uber Eats, which operates in France alongside Deliveroo.

It does not own a restaurant and has almost never been profitable in seven years.

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Source: lefigaro

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