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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

Learn how this Ohio sandwich shop turned to DoorDash Capital to receive fast, flexible financing to cover an unexpected cost.

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How No Fork Received Fast, Easy Financing with DoorDash Capital

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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United States & Canada

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?

Discover how Mellini Monique Bramlett and her husband turned their passion for healthy, global flavors into a thriving business. 

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How the Founders of Herby PoP Turned Their Passion for Health into Sales

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 which fall menu items are most popular, how consumer dining behavior shifts during this season, and how restaurants can capitalize on fall food trends. 

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Fall Food Trends: How Restaurants Can Prepare Menus for Autumn

Discover how Tiffany Leong, founder of Bo-yi, went back to childhood basics to heal herself — and created a new business to educate others in the process.

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Healing by Harnessing Ancient Herbs: The Bo-yi Story

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

Three restaurateurs share how their businesses in Calle Ocho, located in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, serve their community, preserve Cuban culture, and more.

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How 3 Restaurants Keep Cuban Culture Alive in Calle Ocho

DoorDash has partnered with Hello Alice to create the Restaurant Disaster Relief Fund, providing $10,000 relief grants to restaurants impacted by natural disasters. 

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Disaster Relief Resources for Restaurants

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 Souvla’s expansion plans throughout the Bay Area continue to place their customers and staff first. 


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How Charles Bililies of Souvla is Investing in the Bay Area

Learn how Sandro Roco of Sanzo grew his business from an apartment in Queens to being featured in DashMart and on the big screen.


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From H Mart to Hollywood: How Sanzo Diversified Sales with DashMart

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 inaugural issue of Secret Menu is dedicated to the diverse local restaurant communities in Los Angeles.

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Introducing Secret Menu, a Magazine for and by the Restaurant Industry

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

Discover how these businesses fuel growth by selling their goods nationwide on DoorDash.

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Nationwide Shipping: 3 Businesses Share How They Sell Goods Across the US

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 these restaurateurs used DoorDash Capital to grow their businesses, run efficiently, and more.

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How 3 Restaurants Optimized their Business with DoorDash Capital

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

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

Learn how to keep french fries crispy for delivery with these tips from the Las Vegas-based Black and Blue Diner.

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How to Keep French Fries Crispy for Delivery

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

The summer months are often the busiest for restaurants. Learn how these businesses prepare for the summer rush. 


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 How Three Restaurateurs Handle the Summer Rush

Learn how to open a delivery-only restaurant and discover the benefits of having a virtual, delivery-only model. 

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How To Open a Delivery-Only Restaurant

Learn about virtual kitchens and how they help restaurant operators like Frankie from Scaffidi Restaurant Group drive additional revenue.

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Adding a Virtual Kitchen to Your Restaurant

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 how Tracy Chang used the values she learned growing up in the restaurant industry to lead one of her own. 

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How Tracy Chang, Founder of PAGU, Leads with Empathy 

Discover how this Bay Area-based Korean BBQ restaurant found a new revenue stream by licensing another brand from its own kitchen. 

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How Bak Kung Opened A New Revenue Stream with Brand Licensing 

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

Need to staff up for the busy season again? Learn tips for success in hiring seasonal workers, featuring advice from Dear Bella Creamery.

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Seasonal Hiring Guide: Tips for Restaurant Success

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

Find out what consumers are craving 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

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

The following tips will help you set the foundation for effective restaurant operations management.

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6 Best Practices in Restaurant Operations

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