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Explore today's consumer dining trends and get industry insights from the 2023 Restaurant Online Ordering Trends Report.

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2023 Online Ordering and Restaurant Consumer Trends

Hungry for restaurant business tips, strategies, industry stories, and more? Dig in!

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Learn about current food and drink trends and how to prepare your menu to capture customer attention.

Food & Drink Trends

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Our restaurant guide for outdoor dining is packed with advice, from patio setup and weatherproofing to seasonal menu development and operations.

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How to Prepare Your Restaurant for Outdoor Dining

Learn how this Toronto-based healthy Tex-Mex franchise location built a loyal customer base through DoorDash.

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How DoorDash Helped This BarBurrito Franchise Increase Sales by 84%

Learn how to calculate and lower customer acquisition costs for restaurants, and ​measure the impact and cost of common paid marketing strategies. 

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Comparing Restaurant Customer Acquisition Costs & Paid Marketing Channels

Learn how Spread Bagelry’s omni-channel customer experience drives new business at a higher margin.

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How Spread Bagelry Wins Incremental Sales with DoorDash

From business partnerships to food delivery partnerships to community partnerships, learn how restaurant partnerships can help you thrive. 

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Restaurant Partnerships: What Business Owners Need to Know

From fast food to fine dining, learn about the different profit margin averages for various kinds of restaurants.

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Profit Margins for Different Types of Restaurants

Find out what we expect consumers to crave on DoorDash this summer and how restaurants can make the most of the season.

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Summer Food Trends: How Restaurants Can Prepare for the Season

Learn about average profit margin for grocery stores, pet stores, liquor stores, flower shops, and more.

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Comparing Average Profit Margin by Industry

Learn all about the food delivery container options available to restaurants, including how to ensure freshness, prioritize sustainability, and reduce costs.

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A Guide to Eco-Friendly Food Delivery Containers for Restaurants

Learn how Atlanta-based Slutty Vegan won over the hearts of its customers. 

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How Slutty Vegan Gained a Cult Following

Learn how to run a successful restaurant with strategies from veteran restaurant owners to help up-and-comers establish and grow their business. 

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How to Run a Restaurant Successfully: 7 Tips from Restaurant Owners

Get a breakdown of common restaurant expenses, as well as strategies to reduce restaurant costs and increase profit margins.

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How to Reduce Restaurant Costs and Improve Profits

What is your strategy for building a restaurant website? Learn what makes a good restaurant website and how to avoid common pitfalls.

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Building a Restaurant Website: 12 Mistakes to Avoid

Learn how Instagram marketing works for small businesses of all kinds, from restaurants and liquor stores to supermarkets and pet shops.

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A Guide to Instagram Marketing for Small Businesses

These restaurant advertising strategies can help you reach new customers, while also reminding previous guests that it’s time for a visit.


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How to Reach New Customers with Restaurant Advertising

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

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12 Restaurant Technologies to Help Grow Your Business

Learn how supermarket marketing, strategic promotions, and meeting customers where they are can help grocery stores increase sales. 

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Creative Ways to Increase Supermarket Sales

Looking to grow your restaurant’s reach and bring in more revenue? Learn how to get started with direct mail for restaurants.


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10 Ways to Use Direct Mail for Restaurant Marketing

Help your business grow by taking these extra steps to provide excellent restaurant service and offering a variety of ways for guests to dine with you.

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How to Improve Restaurant Service to Keep Customers Coming Back

Learn about alcohol delivery and pickup preferences from our exclusive 2023 Alcohol Online Ordering Trends Report.

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Alcohol Pickup & Delivery: Consumer Trends for 2023

Secret Menu is a celebration of the restaurants that are integral to local communities. 

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Secret Menu Issue 2: Miami's Almighty Hustle

Richard Ortega’s Maiz Project goes beyond serving Miamians true Venezuelan arepas. By invoking memories of his abuela’s cooking, he hopes to show that traditional family recipes can be the start of something bigger.

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Do You Know The Masa Man?

Here’s how the enterprising husband and wife behind Phuc Yea, a beloved Vietnamese-Cajun restaurant, navigated the costs to opening a restaurant.

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From Red to Black

Miami has evolved into a city that’s embracing sustainable dining in creative ways. Here four leaders of this transformation tell us about what they’ve got growing.

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Well Grounded in the Magic City

Men may dominate the wine industry globally, but in Miami women have the nose for what the city wants to sip on.  

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Women of Wine

One does old-school Cuban burgers, the other new-school Cubanos. A conversation between the two offers an education into far more than what it takes to make the perfect sandwich.  

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The Great Sandwich Summit

Black chefs are leading a vegan movement across Miami.

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Our Community Deserves This

Learn how four business owners staff up in uncertain times. 

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Dream Team

Inflation. Rising rents. Unpredictable supply chain. Here's how some Miami restaurants are making their restaurant operating margin work. 

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The Cost of Doing Business

Learn about the business of BBQ in Miami, featuring Mama Lucy's All Pro Ribs, Drinking Pig, and more. 

Learn about Miami's hidden gem: Mama Lucy's All Pro Ribs

The Keepers of the Flame

Miami was once awash with classic Jewish delis. A quest for those glory days reveals how a new generation of owners is honoring the past with an irreverent eye toward the future.   

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In Search of Lox Time

In a city that prizes flash and novelty, Joe’s Stone Crab has thrived for over a century. 

Old Joe's: A Family Owned Business in Miami

An Ode to Old Joe's

The dream was an Italian restaurant. Step one was a taco stand. Luciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer’s unconventional road to a Michelin star.

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That's Amore!

Restaurants remain very much alive after closing for the night.

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Closing Time

New York-style Pizza in Miami. Tokyo-style sushi in New York. David Foulquier has built his nascent restaurant empire by thinking outside the box. 

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The Chameleon

Miami has long attracted big names in the restaurant world, but the recent pace is like nothing the city has seen before. Local legend, Michelle Bernstein, doesn’t think it’s a bad thing.


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Bring It

From off-premise dining to menu engineering to social media promotions, learn how to increase restaurant sales with these creative strategies.

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How to Increase Restaurant Sales: 8 Best Practices

Positive restaurant reviews help attract new diners — but restaurant review management can be a challenge. Here are some of the best ways to get more reviews for your restaurant.

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Restaurant Review Management: How to Get More Reviews

These creative Mother’s Day dining promotions will help you boost revenue and stand out on one of the busiest restaurant holidays of the year. 

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6 Ways to Increase Mother’s Day Restaurant Sales

Are you ready for an influx of flower orders for Mother's Day? Get tips on staying prepared for flower-heavy holidays, from managing incoming orders to handling local deliveries.

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How to Prepare Your Flower Store for Mother’s Day 

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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DoorDash Partnership Plans Give Merchants More Options

Are you starting a restaurant? Use this new restaurant checklist to guide you as you choose a location, develop a business plan, and build your brand. 

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Opening a Restaurant Checklist: 6 Essential Steps

Learn seven strategies for finding investors to help finance your restaurant concept.

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How to Find Restaurant Investors

Wondering how to get more social media followers for your business? Learn restaurant social media tips to find and engage with guests.

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How to Promote Your Restaurant on Social Media

These restaurant growth strategies help connect you with customers and increase revenue.

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Restaurant Growth Strategies to Boost your Business

Learn how TikTok marketing can help restaurants, liquor stores, grocery stores, and other small businesses can reach new customers. 