Big-ass West Coast booze retailer BevMo! ( “shopping for beverages should be as much fun as drinking them!”-and what’s more fun than browsing for craft beer on an app?) has partnered with third-party online food delivery service DoorDash (which delivers food from restaurants and groceries), to test delivery of beer, wine, spirits, and mixers from select LA and Bay Area stores to local residents.
If you live in LA or San Francisco, that is. But if the thought of having to add three more minutes to your digital delivery experience drives you to drink, never fear: you’ll soon be able to do just that-on demand. Based on the system of fees, though, I can recommend DoorDash to those who are just ordering for themselves, as you'll spend a little less.ĭoorDash's group ordering feature, though, means the service is also useful for larger orders, especially if you're tired of taking your friends' orders for them.Perhaps you’ve indulged in our recent coverage on how a micro-revolt in the mega food delivery business is challenging Seamless and GrubHub customers to order direct from local restaurants rather than the apps, for which restaurants pay hefty fees.
Well, download the app and check it out first, and see what's available near you. Caviar and Postmates are by no means ugly, but DoorDash is prettier. Yes, the corporate version of Seamless has this, but I'm a writer, not an office manager.Īlso, at least on iOS, DoorDash is amazingly well-designed, to the point where it looks like one of Apple's own apps.
As someone who frequently orders from these delivery services, I can attest to the fact that I wish Seamless had this option. Group ordering, a built-in option to collaborate with other DoorDash users on a single order, is DoorDash's primary differentiator. Since the list of restaurants available to services such as DoorDash is always changing (though it is premium) the service found a very good way to get a leg up on Postmates and Caviar.
What does DoorDash have over its competitors? On top of that, of course, you tip your Dasher and can do so in the app. Postmates places a $3.99 fee on deliveries from the famed burger flipper, and DoorDash's $3.30 fee was derived by calculating 11 percent of my order. In DoorDash's site, they note that this is possible "because restaurants that have a formal partnership with us share the cost of providing delivery." Testing out DoorDash against Postmates, I've seen that the service fees for ordering for Shake Shack, for example, were slightly lower at DoorDash, because my order wasn't huge.
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