{"id":7044,"date":"2015-12-09T23:28:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T04:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/deliveroo-when-fine-food-meets-exceptional-logistics\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T23:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T04:28:25","slug":"deliveroo-when-fine-food-meets-exceptional-logistics","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/deliveroo-when-fine-food-meets-exceptional-logistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Deliveroo: When Fine Food Meets Exceptional Logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in February 2013, the idea behind Deliveroo started when founder Will Shu moved from New York to London\u2019s financial district to work in Investment Banking. When hunger struck after a long day in the office Will had no option but to turn to Burger King because no one would deliver where he worked! He quickly realized that London lagged behind when it came to quality food delivery and -along with his co-founder Greg Orlowski- decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Today Deliveroo is a leading online high-quality food delivery company, backed with $200m in funding. The company is currently working on its global expansion to Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i4tsk12in2b2y7uts14c528g-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/deliverooseriesb4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7213\" src=\"https:\/\/i4tsk12in2b2y7uts14c528g-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/deliverooseriesb4-300x225.png\" alt=\"deliverooseriesb4\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/deliverooseriesb4-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/deliverooseriesb4-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/deliverooseriesb4.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deliveroo: The Food Delivery Company<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A web and app based food delivery service based in London, Deliveroo, delivers high quality food from your local restaurants in an average delivery time of 32 minutes. The idea behind the company was to provide higher quality dining at home than your typical \u2013what the founders considered to be lower quality- existing delivery options.\u00a0Deliveroo charges customers a flat fixed-fee of \u00a32.5 ($3.79), and requires a minimum order of \u00a315 ($22.76), the company also charges restaurants a commission on orders. Delivery speed is specifically quoted, depending on restaurant location it ranges from 20 to 60 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughtfully selected restaurants are screened for quality, and hygiene. Customers access the website or app, enter their postcode and get a list of restaurants in their area. Options range from your local specialty ice-cream shop, to a Michelin star restaurant!\u00a0The company targeted\u00a0a gap in the market: quality restaurants that do not provide delivery services. Deliveroo offers a hassle-free solution by providing restaurants with orders, and taking care of the delivery services for these restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure consistency in delivery speed and efficiency Deliveroo hires its own drivers who are required to apply only if equipped with a scooter or bicycle with a pizza box already installed. Drivers are all dressed in Deliveroo uniforms, and drive Deliveroo labeled scooters and bikes which are seen all over London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Behind the scenes with Deliveroo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MU16iqodZUU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deliveroo: The Logistics Company<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owning the Supply Chain: Deliveroo chose to own its supply chain. Unlike Seamless, GrubHub and others which simply created the platform and allowed restaurants that already deliver to leverage their technology, Deliveroo decided it would manage orders and delivery to allow it to offer customers higher quality options from restaurants that do not normally deliver food.<\/p>\n<p>Hiring its own drivers allows the company to strategically position drivers in certain neighborhood, and assign them to a specific delivery zone. At any given night, there are hundreds of\u00a0drivers out on the road. The drivers are paid \u00a37 per hour + \u00a31 per drop + petrol + tips and can earn upto \u00a33,500 ($5,309) per month.<\/p>\n<p>Deliveroo&#8217;s beautifully designed and user friendly technology platform optimizes food ordering and delivery by processing web and mobile consumer orders which are sent directly\u00a0to restaurants. Restaurants receive orders on a Deliveroo tablet-based order management terminal (provided by the company). The company created a highly sophisticated delivery driver smartphone software that allows optimizing delivery routes and provides customers with order tracking information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i4tsk12in2b2y7uts14c528g-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/Deliveroo-electric-bike-delivery2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7189 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i4tsk12in2b2y7uts14c528g-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/Deliveroo-electric-bike-delivery2-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"Deliveroo-electric-bike-delivery2\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/Deliveroo-electric-bike-delivery2-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/Deliveroo-electric-bike-delivery2-1024x876.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/Deliveroo-electric-bike-delivery2-600x513.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/Deliveroo-electric-bike-delivery2.jpg 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hyper-Local: Deliveroo operates on a hyper-local model, when users enter their delivery postcode they are presented with a list of restaurants within a 2km (1.25mi) radius. This allows the company to quote a specific delivery speed, ranging\u00a0from 20 to 60 minutes maximum. The hyper-local model allows for speedy and timely delivery, the ability to better predict travel distance and traffic, and a high turnover of deliveries given the smaller coverage area. The fact that London is a highly populated and commercially dense area allows for such a model to exist successfully.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Challenges?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deliveroo\u2019s relatively capital intensive model -compared to its competitors- was definitely a first barrier to scalability but was quickly resolved by heavy funding which allowed it to expand. However, entering other markets requires the company to target highly dense areas with relatively affluent consumers and high restaurant concentration in order for both its business and operating model to succeed. Restaurant owners have attributed up-to 20% revenue growth to Deliveroo orders, and consumers (myself included) find service quality and timeliness exceptional!<\/p>\n<p>Deliveroo is a great example of how the founders successfully deviated from the on-demand crowd-sourced service model trend, their competitors&#8217;\u00a0pure technology based platform model to a full product and logistics service provider.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Deliveroo.co.uk\/\">Deliveroo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2015-04\/03\/startup-of-the-week-deliveroo\">Startup of the Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/27\/deliveroo-an-on-demand-food-delivery-service-raises-70-million\/?_r=0\">Deliveroo an On-Demand Food Delivery Service Raises 70 Million<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indexventures.com\/news-room\/news\/deliveroo-raises-70m-for-further-international-expansion\">Deliveroo Raises 70m for Further International Expansion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indexventures.com\/news-room\/news\/deliveroo-raises-%C2%A3275m-to-expand-delivery-of-quality-restaurant-food-across-the-uk\">Deliveroo raises \u00a32.75m to expand delivery of quality restaurant food<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetechportal.in\/2015\/11\/24\/deliveroo\/\">TheTechPortal: Deliveroo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fine Food in 32 minutes? 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