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Poster reading We Deliver on Doordash in a restaurant, San Ramon, California, April 17, 2020.
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DoorDash said Wednesday that it is expanding its corporate delivery offerings as the coronavirus pandemic leaves many office buildings empty.
Your DashPass subscription program will include corporate members, giving employees unlimited free delivery and reduced service fees. Businesses may also offer meal credits to their employees to pay for meals delivered by DoorDash or its Caviar subsidiary. Group order capability and employee gift cards are also part of the delivery company’s corporate business, now available to employees working remotely.
DoorDash said more than 4,000 companies have already signed on to the new program, including Zoom Video, Charles Schwab and Hulu.
Fears that cases will skyrocket during the winter has led some companies to postpone returning to their office buildings until next spring. That’s bad news for DoorDash and its competitors. Corporate customers can represent a large part of the business, depending on the market and the third-party delivery company.
For example, Grubhub told shareholders in May that the dramatic drop in corporate orders resulted in an overall double-digit order reduction in the last two weeks of its first quarter, compared to the same period last year. In the prior quarter, its corporate business represented less than one-tenth of its total sales. Grubhub reported $ 341 million in sales in the fourth quarter.
However, overall, the pandemic has accelerated demand for DoorDash and its rivals. The cafeteria closures in the first months of the closures forced many consumers to try the apps for the first time. Analytics platform Second Measure found that food delivery service sales grew 158% during August from a year earlier.
