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Discover the journey of three restaurateurs who are working to honor and celebrate their cultures and creating new pathways along the way. 

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Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month: 3 Restaurateurs Share Their Stories

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Read interviews, trends, and tips for owning, operating, and ultimately growing a business.

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

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United States, Canada & Australia

Developing a Restaurant Brand: 5 Key Tips

Discover how a successful restaurant communication strategy helps staff and customers accept changes to your menu, service, COVID-19 safety requirements, and more. 

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How to Develop an Effective Restaurant Communication Strategy

Explore how DoorDash works with pet supply shops to offer on-demand pet store delivery.

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How Does DoorDash Work for Pet Stores?

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

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

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How Sponsored Listings Helped The Melt Acquire ~500 New Customers

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

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How Does DoorDash Work for Restaurants? 

What alcohol and beer ordering trends were popular with customers on DoorDash in 2021? Discover our exclusive DoorDash data on the latest in alcohol ordering trends. 


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Alcohol & Beer Ordering Trends, According to DoorDash Data

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 

Learn how a flower delivery order works on DoorDash from start to finish — and how our suite of products can help you grow your business.

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How Does DoorDash Work for Flower Delivery? 

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 

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

Ready to go green and sustainable? Read this guide to choosing the right eco-friendly food delivery containers for your restaurant. 

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How Restaurants Can Go Green with Sustainable Food Delivery Containers

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

Read why this Los Angeles-based restaurant operator views her staff, customers, and DoorDash team as part of the family. 

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How Ayara Thai Created a Family-Driven Restaurant Culture

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

Get ideas for connecting with your customers on the cutest holiday of the year—National Puppy Day.

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How to Celebrate National Puppy Day with Your Customers

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

Recognizing your employees’ hard work on a regular basis boosts workplace morale. These ideas for showing staff appreciation are worth a look.

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10 Employee Recognition Ideas for Small Businesses

The Made by Women initiative doesn’t simply celebrate women-owned businesses — it provides access to the marketing, educational, financial and mentorship resources they need to continue to succeed, grow, and make an impact.	

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Made by Women: Celebrating and Empowering Women Entrepreneurs

An engaging employee handbook gives your team the tools they need to succeed and can help boost retention. 

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How to Write an Effective Employee Handbook

We’re excited to welcome Bbot — a leading provider of digital ordering and payment software for restaurants and other hospitality businesses — to the DoorDash family. 

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Commission-free in-store digital ordering and payment 

Not every order is perfect. Here’s how to avoid orders with missing or incorrect items.  

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How to Avoid Missing or Incorrect Items

Sometimes Dashers have to wait for orders to be ready. Here’s how to minimize that wait time. 

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How to Avoid Avoidable Wait

Some order cancellations are outside of your control. Here are tips for minimizing the ones you can control.

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How to Avoid Avoidable Cancellation

Get your business ready for the St. Patrick's Day alcohol sales and delivery rush this year.

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How to Promote and Scale your St. Patrick’s Day Alcohol Sales

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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These 10 Holidays Drove 2021's Highest Food Delivery Sales on DoorDash in the U.S.

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 

Looking for some extra capital to grow your restaurant? Explore this list of loan, grant, and financing options.

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Restaurant Financing and Capital Resources

Game Day is an opportunity to engage with your customers — whether it’s running a special promotion on tacos and chicken wings, or hosting a giveaway.

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2022 Game Day Menu Ideas & Promotion Tips

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

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Supporting Black-Owned Businesses in Your Community

Ensure alcohol delivery orders get to customers safely and swiftly with these packaging and transportation best practices.

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Alcohol Delivery: Merchant Tips for Packaging

An employee referral program can be a surprisingly effective strategy for building a high-performing team while keeping costs low.

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Building an Employee Referral Program: Tips for Success

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 DoorDash Sales 3x with Promotions

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

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

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

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 Increased Sales by 62.5% by Using Storefront

Read how honeygrow and HipCityVeg designed their menus for non-vegan customers and built a strong restaurant community during COVID-19.

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6 Ways These Sustainable Restaurants Support their Community

Learn how to enhance your restaurant’s marketing strategy by taking advantage of national food holidays.

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Restaurant Marketing Strategies for 2022 National Food Holidays

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