It was a promising, if ambitious, idea: offering the chance to buy a home-cooked dinner from a local amateur cook who lives around the corner. Why couldn’t Menu Next Door make it work? Menu Next Door launched its Brussels-based food sharing platform in 2015, with more than 600 Belgian cooks joining the platform. It expanded to London and Paris in …
Why Quiqup is thinking about groceries rather than restaurants
One of the smaller delivery startups, Quiqup, is exploring deals with supermarkets, despite the inherent challenges of low margins and umpteen products. Delivering groceries from supermarkets to consumers is far tougher than delivering restaurant food, but several companies are quietly working in the background to find a solution. The delivery company Quiqup is understood to be preparing a partnership with …
Uber Eats: a Q&A with Uber’s UK food delivery boss
Uber began its foray into London food delivery in June this year. Uber Eats is currently present in 24 cities in six countries, with plenty more added every month. Will Uber be able to dislodge Deliveroo as the market leader? Its UK general manager, Toussaint Wattinne, answers Courier’s questions. Why has Uber got into delivering food? We’ve been operating a …
Motu’s Kashmiri lamb shank rogan josh
The team behind Trishna, Gymkhana and Hoppers share a lamb curry recipe from their new food delivery venture, Motu. The Sethi siblings, who have been the orchestrators of hit restaurants Trishna, Gymkhana and Hoppers, have turned to the Roobox kitchen for their next venture. Motu (translated as ‘fat man’), serves up high-end curry, brought to your front door by Deliveroo’s riders. Here, …