San Francisco – San Francisco (AP) – Doordash It expands its offers, add restaurant reservations and deliver robots in some American markets.
The San Francisco -based company, the largest delivery provider in the United States, has announced expansion plans on Tuesday, saying that it wants to bring more business to the merchants with which it works and remains at the forefront of the continuous increasing demand. Doordash’s total orders jumped by 20 % to 761 million in the second quarter of this year.
Doordash robots will bring new challenges to the company because they bear the responsibility for storing and maintaining devices. But Doordash participating in Stanley Tang said that the company needs more delivery options to help fuel its growth in the future.
“The shift to self -judgment is taking place at the present time, and Douordsh is in a unique position to do something like this,” Tang said on Monday during an interview at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. “We need to find ways to keep pace with the demand. The complexity of the delivery that is made on our platform is also increasing.”
But Doordash plans also threaten other delivery and reservation platforms such as OpenTable and InstaCart. On Monday, after Doordash said he would do so Expanding her partnership with Kroger To provide delivery from the grocery store of 2700 American stores, DooDash shares jumped by 4 % while InstaCart fell by 10 %.
Doordash said on Tuesday that the new “exit” tab will allow users to reserve restaurant tables. The reservations will be presented first in New York and Miami, where they are added to other cities later this year. In cities that do not contain restaurant reservation capabilities, the “exit” tab will allow for Doordash customers to earn bonuses and offers inside the store.
Dashpass members – who pay $ 9.99 for free delivery operations in most requests – will also get additional benefits, such as the ability to book exclusive tables.
Doordash noted his interest in adding reservations with it The last purchase of sevroomsIt is a company in New York that makes the reservation and hospitality management program. Doordash announced the purchase of $ 1.2 billion in March.
Douordsh said that adding reservations and deals helps her to deepen her relationship with restaurants and bring them new sponsors. During the test in San Francisco, the company found that 80 % of customers who used “exit” visited a restaurant who had never asked for food.
Douordsh also said on Tuesday that he would soon start providing delivery in Phoenix with an independent robot. The robot, designed by Doordash and called DOT, can reach speeds of up to 20 miles per hour and travel in the streets, sidewalks and corridors.
Dosedesh has spent the past seven years in the development of robot. The company decided to develop it after finding that other delivery robots on the market, which are mostly Designer for short operation On the campus of universities or urban sidewalks, she was not able to work in the suburbs where Doordash has many delivery operations.
The company said it could use its own data to improve the robot.
“After 10 billion of deliveries, we have data on what succeeds, what is collapsing and what is the standards,” said Tang, who leads the Independence and robots department in Dordish.
Dot is bright red and resembles a large stroller. Its width is 3 feet, 4.5 feet and large enough to deal with up to six large pizza boxes or 30 pounds of goods.
Tang said that Douordsh has already made hundreds of successful delivery operations with DOT over the past few months in the Greater Phoenix. Tang said that if things continue to advance smoothly, DooDash plans to bring DOT to more markets throughout the United States as soon as possible.
Doordash executive officials view the development of DOT as the next main step in a development that has already witnessed that the company is expanding from a monthly process that was carrying out some delivery in Palo Alto, California, 13 years ago. Doordash has become a service everywhere working in more than 30 countries.
Doordash was also Driver delivery test For several years in Australia, Texas and North Carolina. Tang said that the company is developing a system that automatically defines the best delivery method based on demand and where it goes.
“Our vision is the hybrid, the delivery of the human being and the independence that works together to expand access to more people,” said Tang.
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Durbin mentioned from Detroit.