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Though some restaurants were concerned about paying a service to take business out of their establishment three years ago, Weeks said restaurants have adapted to carryout and delivery now being a substantial part or even a majority of their business, in some cases.

The Iowa Restaurant Association estimated that even before the pandemic, only 37 percent of food made in restaurants was eaten in them. With the way things are moving, Dunker said, ghost or cloud kitchens designed to cook food for delivery only, without a dining room, will be a bigger part of the future restaurant scene.

At the beginning of , Sewell said 35 restaurants on Chomp competed against over offered by Grubhub. By the end of , he said over restaurants were using Chomp and over 60 were using Grubhub in the Corridor — a David and Goliath story of a local co-op taking on a big tech company. Grubhub contends it grew nearly 50 percent in Iowa City in , though it declined to offer The Gazette specific numbers for comparison.

Sewell and Weeks said that growth could not have happened without community buy-in and an invested relationship with restaurants. Sewell, who has gone on to help establish local co-ops in other states, goes a step further in thinking about the future of delivery apps. Among those priorities, it seeks to put into law requirements that prohibit:. The association will not pursue a limit on commission fees. Comments: ; elijah. Elijah Decious Restaurants Aug.

Elijah Decious Restaurants Jul. Elijah Decious. Restaurants Nov. Restaurants Oct. Alexandra Olsen. Recipes Nov. Steve Gravelle. Small Business News 1h ago. Weeks said establishments that were previously uninterested in using home delivery services for fear it might not match the quality of in-person dining, including Iowa Chop House and Saint Burch Tavern, have signed on.

Meanwhile, the company has made new inroads into the Cedar Rapids market, which it entered late last year. CHOMP has added about 40 new drivers since this spring, and now employs more than in the Corridor, with plans for even more hiring as the service expands its geographic reach. Topline revenue is also up, Mr. Uber Eats also had a strong second quarter, with Uber reporting its delivery business is now bigger than its signature ride-hailing service.

For many consumers, the pandemic marked their first time ordering delivery that was not pizza. Khosrowshahi said. The DISQO Consumer Confidence Study, a shopping behavior poll of more than 10, consumers conducted weekly since March, suggests regular meal delivery is likely to indeed become a long-term trend.

As a result, a lot of the revenue stays local, Weeks said. She is a senior at the University of Iowa majoring in UI College of Law dean responds to backlash from faculty self-evaluation forms.

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