Just Eat's restaurant partners typically only wanted to deliver within, say, a two mile radius, but customers could search for restaurants using a postcode district which might extend well …

But the biggest result since introducing custom delivery areas has been a 3% drop in the bad order rate in the UK. "We are delighted to add robot home delivery to the Just Eat service," said Graham Corfield, UK managing director of Just Eat. 1 hour delivery puts people off and loses customers. At Just Eat we operate a leading global hybrid marketplace for online food delivery, providing Customers with an easy and secure way to order and pay for food from our Restaurant Partners. Just Eat is the UK’s original and largest online food delivery company. KFC - your favourite brands, now available for delivery or takeaway from Just Eat. FILE - This Feb. 20, 2018, file photo shows the Grubhub app on an iPhone in Chicago. The merger will let the companies share technology and marketing costs and provide the broadest range of services to restaurants and consumers, the companies said.Takeaway.com and Grubhub, both founded in the early 2000s, were some of the earliest entries in the sector.

The maiden delivery comes months after the company said it would be testing the robots in the area. Pre-order.

But they’ve been joined by a host of others, including Uber Eats, DoorDash, Deliveroo and Postmates.Customers jump freely between the services, which makes it difficult to deliver stable sales. 11:45 - 12:15. Just Eat has delivered its first take away with a delivery robot to a customer in Greenwich, launching a pilot project that will involve transporting food in the city using autonomous vehicles. For example, the Just Eat team got help on performance issues like deciding how many primary shards to allocate to get the best performance, while still maintaining high reliability.Just Eat's restaurant partners typically only wanted to deliver within, say, a two mile radius, but customers could search for restaurants using a postcode district which might extend well beyond that two miles. Your delivery zone is unique to your restaurant and will change over time. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. All the existing districts first had to be transformed into polygons and saved to an S3 table (as the new shapes were too large for DynamoDB) from which they can be retrieved using the district postcode. Apache, Apache Lucene, Apache Hadoop, Hadoop, HDFS and the yellow elephant logo are trademarks of the 3x master, 12x data (UK), 3x master, 6x data (International)Elastic Enterprise Search now available on Elastic CloudElastic Cloud roundup: API support, more regions, and new purchasing options Just Eat Swallows Grubhub Creating Restaurant Delivery GiantTwo pioneers in restaurant delivery — Just Eat Takeaway.com and Grubhub — are combining in a $7.3 billion deal that will create one of the world's largest delivery companies.Amsterdam-based Just Eat Takeaway.com said late Wednesday that it was acquiring Chicago-based Grubhub, snatching it away from ride-hailing giant Uber, which had been reportedly seeking to team Grubhub with its Uber Eats business.The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021. For example, a restaurant in London might have a delivery radius of three miles, but not want its drivers to cross the river Thames. I own a restaurant which also does a takeaway/delivery service. This is because even during busy periods, my maximum time given is 45 minutes. Firstly you keep all of the money you make, we don’t take a commission on your fees. The Starship delivery droid has been put to work in GreenwichStarship's robots are autonomous and unlock with a code sent to the customers' phone The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes Bad orders require manual intervention which leads to higher costs and disgruntled customers.

It holds around 30% of the U.S. food delivery market, according to Second Measure, a data analysis company. Grubhub acquired Seamless in 2013, while DoorDash bought the upscale service Caviar last year.In January, Takeaway.com bought its British rival Just Eat for $7.8 billion.