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Explore how this restaurant became a small-town favorite, earning Most Loved on DoorDash in 2022 and growing sales 25%. 

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How Damas Mediterranean Grill Became Most Loved on DoorDash

Find out how DoorDash works for food trucks, and learn about key features that set up food truck operators for success.

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How DoorDash Works for Food Truck Delivery

Learn how alcohol delivery works for restaurants, wine shops, specialty liquor stores and more with DoorDash as your delivery service partner.

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How Does Selling Alcohol on DoorDash Work?

Discover how this healthy fast-casual chain used DoorDash Promotions to increase sales and reach new customers.  


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How Modern Market Increased Order Volume & Size with DoorDash

Learn how this fried chicken restaurant bounced back from a 50% drop in sales during COVID-19 by implementing a new online ordering system with Storefront.


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How Honey’s Kettle Grew Online with DoorDash

Learn about food delivery and pickup preferences from our exclusive report, 2022 Restaurant Online Ordering Trends.

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2022 Restaurant Consumer Trends in Australia

Find out how to gather restaurant customer data and turn guest insights into proven strategies to grow your business. 

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How Restaurants Can Use Customer Analytics to Increase Sales

Pinky Cole, Founder and Owner of Slutty Vegan, the Atlanta-based vegan hamburger chain, is helping DoorDash keep a pulse on what independent restaurants need. 

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Meet our new Chief Restaurant Advisor, Pinky Cole

Discover how this Sydney-based Mediterranean restaurant grew their sales and customer base with DoorDash and Promotions.

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How Manoosh Pizzeria Grew Sales 200% by using DoorDash Promotions 

Wondering how to develop a restaurant brand? Follow these steps to drive awareness and promote your restaurant. 

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Developing a Restaurant Brand: 5 Key Tips

Improve your profit margins and strengthen your beverage costing and pricing strategy with the following five tips. 

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How to Optimize Your Beverage Cost Percentage and Liquor Pricing 

Learn how offering on-demand delivery from your app or website keeps customers happy while taking care of logistics.

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How On-Demand Delivery Can Benefit Restaurants & Other Small Businesses

Explore the journey of a delivery order and understand how DoorDash works for restaurants. 

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How Does DoorDash Work for Restaurants? 

Learn how this acai and frozen yogurt establishment fuels its business with DoorDash.

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How Bon Bon Berry Reached New Customers with DoorDash

As supply chain shortages continue to affect restaurants worldwide due to inflation and COVID-19, discover how three restaurateurs are preparing and managing these disruptions. 


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How Restaurants Are Managing Supply Chain Shortages and Inflation 

Discover how this family-owned restaurant pivoted during COVID-19 to increase growth with Storefront promotions.

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How Señor G’s Used Storefront Promos to Boost Sales and Attract Customers

Your restaurant type influences everything about your business. Find out which restaurant genres are most popular with customers and profitable for your bottom line.

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The 8 Most Popular (and Profitable) Restaurant Types

Learn how this fast casual chain is rewriting the delivery process with self-serve pickup racks.

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How Portillo’s is Streamlining Operations with Pickup Racks

Learn how this Perth-based restaurant group strategically launched—and exponentially grew—their DoorDash partnership.

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How RoyAl’s Chicken and Burgers Increased DoorDash Orders 150%

Find out the best way to recruit restaurant staff with hiring tips and employee retention strategies.

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Restaurant Recruiting: 5 Tips to Grow Your Team 

Which days were busiest for food delivery in 2021? Here are the ten busiest holidays for food delivery in 2021, based on DoorDash data.


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The 2021 Holidays with the Highest Food Delivery Sales on DoorDash in Australia

Food delivery is here to stay. Learn the 7 benefits of offering a food delivery service for your restaurant—and how to get started today.

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7 Advantages of a Food Delivery Service for Your Business 

With delivery and pickup now essential offerings in today’s market, here’s how you can kickstart your off-premise food and alcohol sales.

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Navigating Off-Premise Food and Alcohol Operations in 2022

When devising your restaurant’s menu pricing strategy, there are many important factors to consider. Read our blog for tips, formulas, and more.

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Menu Pricing Strategies for Restaurants

Whether you’re opening a cloud kitchen or a dine-in restaurant, here are key considerations for how to choose your restaurant location.

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How to Choose a Restaurant Location

Restaurateurs share their experience managing stores during the Omicron surge. 


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How These Restaurant Owners Pivoted Operations During Omicron

There are many benefits to offering third-party delivery and pickup. Keep reading to learn how a DoorDash partnership can grow your business.

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How to Partner with a Third-Party Delivery Service

Restaurant special events and private parties can do wonders to grow profits. Learn how to make those events memorable and tips for their success.

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Creative Ideas for Hosting Restaurant Events

Are you storing your alcohol correctly? Learn best practices for alcohol storage for wine, beer, spirits, and more, for restaurants and alcohol retailers.

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Best Practices for Alcohol Storage

Learn how to incorporate innovative restaurant technology to increase efficiency, lower costs, and enhance the guest experience. 

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7 Innovative Restaurant Technologies to Help Operators

Girl & the Goat Chef and Owner Stephanie Izard discusses creating a restaurant culture that resonates with customers and empowers staff.

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How Stephanie Izard Built a Lasting Restaurant Culture and Brand

Learn the latest in alcohol sales with these 2022 alcohol trends (including non-ABV alternatives) and get ideas for growing your alcohol delivery sales.

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2022 Alcohol Trends: What Consumers are Drinking Now

One thing keeping restaurant managers up at night is a fear that their employees won't show up for work. Here are six restaurant employee retention strategies to ensure a happy staff.

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6 Employee Retention Strategies for Restaurants

Learn how this regional pizza chain increased its average order volume by reaching a new segment of high-value customers.

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How Westside Pizza Grew Sales with DoorDash Self-Delivery

Wondering what your bar’s liquor cost percentage is? Learn how to calculate and optimize this key business metric.

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8 Ways to Lower Your Liquor Cost Percentage

Finding the right balance between restaurant costs and profits can be tricky. Learn the basics of menu engineering so you can design a profitable menu. 

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Menu Engineering Tips to Drive Restaurant Profits

Learn how this Austin restaurant opened during COVID-19 and partnered with DoorDash with their own delivery team.

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How Cocky Teriyaki Grew their Business with DoorDash Self-Delivery

Learn helpful strategies for creating a small business budget plan for restaurants, liquor stores,  convenience stores, and more.

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How to Create a Business Budget Plan [Free Template]

Learn how this Toronto-based fast casual restaurant optimized their off-premise business.

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How Naan & Kabob Grew Monthly DoorDash Sales by 19%

Learn how this Utah-based bakery expanded their delivery and pickup offerings.

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How Hruska's Kolaches Increased Overall Sales by 10% with DoorDash

Ensure a seamless Dasher pickup with these tips from restaurants including Yolk, Naan & Kabob, and Hruska’s Kolaches, as well as Dasher Leo Ney.

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10 Restaurant Tips to Improve the Dasher Pickup Experience

Learn how to calculate overhead costs and increase profitability across your business. 

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How to Calculate Overhead & Increase Your Profitability

We share answers to common questions about food cost percentage, as well as strategies to optimize this metric and improve your restaurant profits. 

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How to Calculate and Optimize Your Food Cost Percentage

Looking for ways to get feedback from restaurant customers? Here are 7 ways to gain actionable insights from dine-in guests and delivery customers.

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7 Ways Restaurants Can Encourage Customer Feedback

Running a restaurant has never been easy — and as off-premise sales continue to rise, we want to make sure your restaurant is equipped to meet the needs of your customers, staff, and the evolving landscape.

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How to Streamline Your DoorDash Operations

Customer satisfaction is critical to your success as a business but is also more nuanced than "the customer is always right". Learn how to solicit and address customer feedback, respond to negative feedback, and tips for going above and beyond.

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Improve Your Customer Ratings on DoorDash

Your team is an integral part of your business — which is why we want to help you set them up for success. In this article, we’ll cover the basic skills your staff needs, including how to accept and process orders, address common problems and follow best practices.

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Train Your Team on DoorDash

To help you revamp your website, we’ve assembled a list of frequent online pitfalls that prevent restaurants from realizing their full potential.