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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

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

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

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How Does DoorDash Work for Restaurants? 

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

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 Fishers Foods found new customers and grew delivery sales with DoorDash.

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How Fishers Foods Expanded Grocery Delivery with DoorDash

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%

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

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

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

Learn how this small business bloomed big by focusing on increasing efficiency, speed, and scale with a delivery partnership.

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How The Flower Shop Grew Their Profit Margins 10%

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

Learn how this immigrant- and woman-owned luxury dog treat brand connected with customers in a contact-free world.

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How MISHKA Luxury Dog Treats Grew Business 7X

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 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

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%

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

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

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

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

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

We spoke with four restaurateurs about how their marketing strategies have changed through the pandemic, and what they're looking forward to trying next. 

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Top Restaurant Marketing Tips from Restaurant Owners

High-quality menu photography piques interest in new dishes, engages customers, and drives sales. Here are 6 tips to make your menu photos look their best.

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How to Take Amazing Restaurant Menu Photos

Discover how this family-owned business was able to drive online visibility with the help of the DoorDash team.

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How Pizza Salvatoré Increased Off-Premise Revenue by 45%

Find out why this Quebec City restaurant teamed up with DoorDash to expand their business.

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How Fromagerie Victoria Reached New Markets with DoorDash

This Montreal-based Middle Eastern restaurant discovered creative new revenue streams during COVID-19.

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How Sumac Grew Monthly DoorDash Sales by 493%

Learn restaurant hiring and retention tips from industry leaders.

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Hiring Staff During a Restaurant Industry Labor Shortage

Learn how to write mouth-watering food descriptions for your online menu, including examples of creative food descriptions to inspire you. 

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How to Write Food Descriptions for Your Online Menu

Learn how this Ohio Valley family restaurant embraced technology to add innovative revenue streams.

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How Scaffidi Restaurant Group Increased Monthly Deliveries by 1,850%

Learn how this Australian supermarket partnered with DoorDash to reach new customers.

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How IGA Nollamara Increased Delivery Sales by 250% with DoorDash

Learn how this Australian quick service restaurant partnered with DoorDash to enable delivery ordering through its own digital platforms.

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How Roll’d Increased White-Label Delivery Sales by 177% with On-Demand Delivery

According to recent research, the rise of food delivery has become a major trend among consumers. 

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The Rise of Food Delivery Services: Why Consumers Order In

Learn how this Dallas-based Brazilian steakhouse leveraged DoorDash Storefront to increase off-premise sales during COVID-19.

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How Texas de Brazil Grew DoorDash Sales by 58% with Storefront

Learn how this Illinois-based grilled chicken franchise captured incremental sales with commission-free online ordering.

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How Port of Peri Peri Increased DoorDash Orders by 56% with Storefront

Find out all you need to know about how to pitch to restaurant investors and how to create detailed restaurant pitch decks.

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How to Pitch to Restaurant Investors

Learn how this Florida-based casual dining chain transformed their business overnight.

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How Smokey Bones Drove 288% Growth with Delivery

Looking to ensure food quality in off-premise orders? Learn how to optimize your restaurant menu and operations for takeout and delivery food quality.

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How to Optimize Food Quality for Off-Premise Orders

To maximize your restaurant profit margin for dine-in and delivery, focus on two overall strategies: increasing sales and decreasing expenses. 

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How to Improve Your Restaurant Profit Margin

From off-premise dining to menu engineering to Instagram promotions, here are a few strategies to help increase restaurant sales.

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How to Increase Restaurant Sales

Learn how improving your restaurant's online visibility will help you reach new customers and drive more dine-in and takeout sales. 

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5 Ways to Boost Your Restaurant’s Online Visibility

Increase takeout sales, boost brand awareness, and reach new customers when you sign up to list your business on DoorDash app. Get started for free today. 

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Getting Started with DoorDash: Signup and Onboarding

Learn how this Washington, D.C. pizzeria took a data-driven approach to determine where to open new locations.

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How &pizza Leveraged Data to Drive 372% YoY Growth

Read why this Chicago-based upscale brunch restaurant made online delivery a key part of its business strategy.

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How Yolk Drove 486% YoY Growth with Delivery

Learn how to create new restaurant revenue streams for your restaurant or business, opening up new avenues for customers to order and growing profits. 

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