You know that DoorDash has its DoorDash for Business. Well, if you do not know, DoorDash for Business is actually a catering system, that’s right. It is a corporate catering and meal delivery solution that is designed to streamlining the orders of companies for food – supporting in-office, remote, and hybrid work models.
It lets businesses manage team meals, set budgets, and use vouchers via a centralized platform. Think of group orders on food delivery apps, but for company and offices.
This corporate delivery division simplifies large orders while reducing the time and stress involved with coordinating team meals, such as during special planning sessions.
“Fuel your employees with DoorDash for Business,” DoorDash for Business stated on its official site. “Meal planning fit for every workplace, with a diverse selection of restaurants, cost-saving options, and support seven days a week.”
And, like every business looking to expand and offer fresh solutions, DoorDash for Business is now offering tray-style catering and a so-called Meal Manager designed to consolidate and streamline group orders of food. What are these stuff?
Tray-style catering
DoorDash for Business’ tray-style catering is precisely the way it sounds. It delivers big-format meals, along with flatware, for meetings and events, such as when a company needs elegantly-prepared meals during planning sessions for the following year.
The food delivery app stated companies may select between shared trays or individually-packaged boxed meals.
Katie Egan, DoorDash for Business’ general manager, told Ridesharing Forum that, “We partner with restaurants that are experienced in handling large catering orders and give companies the choice of classic large-tray formats or easy-to-distribute boxed meals. We handle the coordination, delivery and setup.”
This tray-style system is now accessible in San Francisco and New York via the DoorDash official app. It will expand to more markets in the United States soon.
Meal Manager
Nah, you’re not hearing a “The Sims” terminology, but DoorDash for Business’ Meal Manager is an automated system combining multiple individual orders into a single per-restaurant delivery. This prevents staggered meal arrivals and reduces confusion since each meal is labeled for the intended recipient.
“Ordering multiple meals to one location has been a fragmented experience, with different delivery drivers and staggered arrivals,” Egan added. “It also requires manual coordination across employees, offices and teams, which takes time.”
These newest services align with shifting workplac behaviors. And, this, with a purpose.
Studies show that employees are mandated to stay later in their offices, so they must be served with home-style meals. Also, big group orders grew 30 percent faster than standard orders year-on-year, with peaks during key planning months – March, September, and December.
In addition, these fresh systems are also designed to serve meals according to schedules, dietary preferences, and team sizes. For instance, one worker may be a vegetarian, while the other isn’t.
“As more companies accelerate their return-to-office plans, the need for flexible, scalable meal solutions that work across locations has never been more critical,” Egan said.
DoorDash for Business’ platform simplifies the feeding of teams in the most reliable manner. Its complex system is backed by a dedicated business support and tools to simplify expensing and reporting.
“From order to delivery, we handle the logistics so you can focus on your team,” DoorDash for Business stated.
For a number one food delivery app, the pressure is on, and they’re doing it with flying colors.