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Proprietors of women-owned restaurants across Canada share what they’ve learned, what they’re proud of, and what challenges they’re currently facing.

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Stories from Women Restaurateurs Leading the Way in Canada

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Need a hand turning your restaurant dream into a reality? Here are the steps to create a strong restaurant business plan — plus a free template.

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How to Write a Winning Restaurant Business Plan in 2023

What are the busiest days for food delivery in 2022? Here are Canada's ten busiest holidays for food delivery in 2022, based on DoorDash data.


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What are the Busiest Holidays for Restaurant Food Delivery in Canada?

Learn how to measure and improve your restaurant profit margins with these helpful tips.


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How to Improve Your Restaurant Profit Margin

With February 14th around the corner, here's how to get your business ready for the influx of Valentine's Day flower delivery orders.

With February 14th around the corner, love is in the air and Valentine’s Day flower delivery orders are starting to roll in.

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How to Prepare for the Valentine’s Day Flower Delivery Rush

Learn how these restaurateurs support Black communities and Black-owned restaurants and businesses.

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Supporting Black-Owned and Led Businesses in Your Community

Boost business from new and regular customers with these Valentine’s Day restaurant ideas, trends, and tips.


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Valentine's Day Restaurant Ideas to Boost February Sales

Learn how to build an effective restaurant training program that gets your team up to speed faster.

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How to Build an Effective Restaurant Training Program

Learn creative ways you can market your business, connect with customers, and grow your online retail sales.

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How Retailers Can Connect In-Store and Online Shopping

In this step-by-step guide, we share strategies for improving customer experience — both for your existing customers and new ones.

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How To Improve the Food Delivery Customer Experience

Learn how delivery is helping to boost business for local retail stores all around the globe — and how you can use these trends to grow your own business.

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How Retail Delivery Boosts Local Business

Explore how DoorDash’s new pricing and products align with specific business goals and understand which partnership makes the most sense for you.

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Which DoorDash Pricing and Products Are Right for You?

Learn about food delivery pricing from DoorDash, what our commissions and fees cover, and how they help us bring value to your business. 

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Food Delivery and Pickup Commissions and Fees, Explained

In order to serve their business partners better, DoorDash launched Partnership Plans that offer cost, pricing, and product options.

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New DoorDash Partnership Plans Give Merchants More Options

Learn how restaurants can retain their employees and reduce turnover.

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Restaurant Management Tips for Higher Employee Retention

Learn how this Georgia-based beauty store is helping customers look and feel their best, with an innovative approach to retail delivery.

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How Kesha Beauty Supply Delivers Convenience with DoorDash

Get your retail delivery ready for the holidays with these practical tips from DoorDash merchants.

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How to Get Your Last-Mile Delivery Ready for the Holidays

From local retail delivery to longer sales seasons, here's what experts are predicting for this year’s holiday season.

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5 Things Retailers Can Expect During the 2022 Holiday Season

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

Learn how restaurants and small businesses can offer affordable health and training benefits to their employees to improve hiring and increase retention.

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How to Access Affordable Employee Benefits 

Explore Katie Ruddell’s unique path to owning Kokomo, one of DoorDash’s 50 Most Loved All Stars in Canada.


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How a Former Brand Strategist Turned Her Dreams into Reality with Kokomo

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 a retail delivery order works with DoorDash as your delivery partner.

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How Does Retail Delivery Work on DoorDash?

Temperatures are cooling, and retail sales are heating up. Here’s how two merchants are preparing for the busy holiday season in creative ways with free gifts, retail delivery, and more.

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How Local Retailers Can Prepare for the Holiday Rush

Bakery owners are often thinking about new ways to promote and grow their businesses. Learn how easy it can be with these six strategies.

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How to Increase Bakery Sales and Expand Your Business

Learn how a fourth-generation flower business is staying true to their values by offering quick, online flower delivery.

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How Family Flowers Scaled Flower Delivery with DoorDash

From flower glue to finishing spray, here are the basic tools you need for professional flower arranging.

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The Best Professional Flower Tools for Your Business

Explore how this Roseville-based liquor retailer updated their DoorDash presence to grow sales by over 300%.

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How Liquor Locker Grew Alcohol Delivery Sales 3x

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?

As any restaurateur will tell you, success comes from knowing what your customers want — whether it’s comfort food or a hefty discount (or both). Los Angeles restaurant owner Derek Chang shares what drives growth for him.

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How Marketing Promotions Spell Success for This LA Restaurant

The pandemic changed the game for alcohol retail and delivery. Here’s how to make the most of these trends to drive profitability and sales.

The Top 5 Alcohol Trends that are Here to Stay Post-COVID

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Learn how Toronto-based Favorites Thai BBQ translates their unique take on Thai to takeout and delivery. 

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How Favorites Thai BBQ Reinvented the Thai Restaurant Experience

Want to step up your flower game? Get expert-evaluated tips and tricks for making flower arrangements.

Your Guide to Prepping, Processing, and Arranging Flowers for Delivery

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Your Guide to Preparing, Processing, and Arranging Flowers for Delivery

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

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 and Size with DoorDash

Discover how this fast-casual chain boosted sales in under two months for its newest location using Sponsored Listings.

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How The Melt Attracted New Customers with DoorDash

Get inspired by these restaurant menu examples and learn how to stand out from competitors, attract more customers, and boost sales. 

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7 Restaurant Menu Examples: How to Design a Menu that Sells

Need to grow your restaurant team? Learn some of our tips to navigate the challenges of hiring seasonal workers.

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Hiring Seasonal Workers: Tips for Restaurant Success

With busy days on the horizon, learn how to make the most of the year’s most popular holidays for flower delivery. 

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The Most Popular Holidays for Flower Delivery

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

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

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2022 Restaurant Consumer Trends in Quebec

A fourth generation florist shares tried-and-tested tips for successful online flower delivery.

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Tips and Tricks for Online Flower Delivery

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

This blog will share a short list of the most popular summer alcoholic drinks that restaurant owners can add to their menu. 

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The Best Alcoholic Summer Drinks to Add to Your Menu

Learn how this liquor store grew profit margins and increased customer awareness by partnering with DoorDash for delivery.

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How Corkscrew Johnny’s Grew Profit Margins 15% with Alcohol Delivery

Get insights on how local flower shops are making the most of new opportunities to grow their business.

What’s Driving the Growth in Online Flower Delivery

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What’s Driving the Growth in Online Flower Delivery? 

DoorDash’s top-rated, most reliable restaurants, where customers can rest assured that their order will be right and delivered fresh. 

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Canada's 50 Most Loved All Stars 2022

DoorDash’s top-rated, most reliable local restaurants, where customers can rest assured that their order will be right and delivered fresh. 