DoorDash launches first shared kitchen with Halal Guys, others in Redwood City
DoorDash, one of the nation’s largest online food delivery services, said it is launching its first shared commissary, called DoorDash Kitchens, in Redwood City, California.
The facility will offer delivery, pickup and group orders from Nation’s Giants Hamburgers, Rooster & Rice, Humphry Slocombe and The Halal Guys.
The commissary aims to help restaurant partners expand into markets in a cost efficient way.
"Historically DoorDash has really been focused on helping drive sales to their existing brick and mortar locations," Fuad Hannon, head of new business verticals at DoorDash, said in an interview with Mobile Payments Today. "Increasingly they’re looking to us to help them understand new geographies and trade areas they can enter."
The shared kitchens provide 400 to 800 square feet per merchant, which common shared space for refrigeration and storage.
The facilities all take orders through DoorDash mobile app and all orders will have no delivery charges through the end of the year.
The restaurants will offer on-demand delivery to customers in seven Bay Area markets, including Atherton, Belmont, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Carlos San Mateo, Sunnyside and Woodside. Pickup service will be offered to customers in 13 Bay Area markets.
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