Revenue market share of top food delivery services in the U.S. as of July 2018

The battle for supremacy between specialist food delivery services continued across the United States in 2018. With a market share of 34 percent, Grubhub was ranked as the leading service, while competitors Uber Eats and DoorDash were ranked second and third, respectively.

Is technology transforming food delivery?

In 2018, around 45 percent of adults in the United States used online ordering to have their food delivered. The use of mobile delivery apps is growing, particularly among young adults, but the leading method of ordering food for delivery was via the restaurant’s own delivery service. The boom in food delivery has led to soaring revenues for some of the largest delivery companies: the worldwide revenue of Grubhub nearly doubled between 2017 and 2019.

Big spenders in the Big Apple

In 2019, New Yorkers spent the most per capita on food delivery in the United States – consumers in the city spent around 200 U.S. dollars per capita more than those in San Francisco. In 2017, Grubhub was the leading takeout food delivery service in New York, with an overwhelming market share. However, consumers in San Francisco favored another delivery service: Caviar. The company had a market share of 24.1 percent in the Californian city, whereas its market share in New York was only 4.5 percent.