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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

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Food & Drink Trends

Seasonality

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

Merchant Blog | DoorDash for Merchants

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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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United States, Canada & Australia

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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United States & Canada

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? 

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

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6 Best Practices in Restaurant Operations

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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U.S. 100 Most Loved All Stars 2022

For Pride Month, we spoke to three business owners on living authentically, finding their voice, and creating comforting spaces that embrace all. 

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Celebrating Pride Month: 3 Entrepreneurs on Running Inclusive Businesses

If you missed this year’s National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago, here are five takeaways highlighting what’s top of mind for today’s restaurateurs.

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5 Takeaways From the National Restaurant Association Show

Learn why customers want same-day pet supply delivery, and how offering it can give your business a competitive advantage.

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Four Reasons Why Customers Want Same-Day Pet Supply Delivery

Explore how this LA-based gift shop is growing their sales through local delivery with DoorDash.

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How Greenwood Shop Grows Local Retail Sales with DoorDash

Discover how this Sydney-based Mediterranean restaurant grew their sales and customer base with DoorDash and Promotions.

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How Manoosh Pizzeria Grew Sales 200% by using DoorDash Promotions 

In honor of Memorial Day, we spoke to three veteran business owners about what the military means to them, transitioning to civilian life, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. 

Jonathan Kerkian, Owner of Corkscrew Johnny's

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Honoring Veterans: Three Business Owners Share their Journeys 

Give your business a checkup with this list of six things that optimize your flower shop operations.

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6 Ways to Optimize your Flower Shop Operations

Pet care spending is on the rise — and offering fresh pet food delivery is the latest way to offer your customers what they want.

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Pet Stores: Why It’s Time to Offer Fresh Pet Food Delivery

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

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2022 Consumer Trends in the Restaurant Industry

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

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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 

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

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

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.