They Fired the Apps. Now They Own the Margins. Yard Sale Pizza
How one neighborhood pizza chain ditched third-party apps, built its own online ordering system, and unlocked £11M in revenue – with nearly every store turning a profit.
EatStreet: A Main Street Solution in a World of Giants
Can a small college startup take on billion-dollar giants? EatStreet proved it could. This American online food ordering platform launched with a clear mission: empower small-town and college-town restaurants with modern ordering technology. While the big players focused on metro mark …
How Waitr (ASAP) Became a Small-Town Delivery Giant
What if the secret to building a delivery giant is starting small? Waitr’s story proves that sometimes the biggest opportunities lie in the markets everyone else overlooks. Founded in Louisiana and eventually rebranded as ASAP, Waitr grew from a local idea into a Nasdaq-listed company …
Fantuan: From Craving to Super App for Overseas Chinese Communities
In 2014 two Chinese international students at Simon Fraser University – economics student Randy Wu and friend Yaofei Feng – turned a simple craving into a company. “At the time, we didn’t have [delivery] service,” explains Feng vantechjournal.com. They saw that mainstream apps in Cana …
The Global Success Story That Started with a Craving for Real Chinese Food
Ever craved authentic home-cooked food far from home? HungryPanda’s journey began in 2017 when University of Nottingham student Eric Kelu Liu asked, “Why can’t ordering Chinese food abroad feel like home?” Frustrated by clumsy translations and a lack of local options, he built a deliv …
Too Good To Go: When Doing Good Became a Business Model
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In 2015 a small group of Danish entrepreneurs stared at towering piles of buffet leftovers and asked, “What if this waste could be value?” In Copenhagen they sketched out an idea: an app to rescue unsold food. By early 2016 Too Good To Go was born – a pocket-sized marketplace connecti …