Courier

Delivery.Com Corporate Office

Delivery.Com was founded in New York, New York in 1995. The company offers an online delivery service for many restaurants, grocery stores, liquor stores, dry cleaning, and Laundromats.

The company has more than 1 million users and boasts more than 12,000 participating stores. Delivery is available in most major cities in the US, including Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and Washington D.C. Customers can order online or use a mobile phone app. Payments are secured by PayPal, debit or credit card.

As a marketplace platform, the company does none of the actual cleaning or shopping themselves, but rather transfers the information from the app to the client for delivery. In 2015, Delivery.Com began offering services in Hong Kong. The company also began a partnership with UberRush in late 2015, where customers can request delivery via UberRush or bicycle messenger in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco.

Delivery.Com

Delivery.Com was founded in New York, New York in 1995. The company offers an online delivery service for many restaurants, grocery stores, liquor stores, dry cleaning, and Laundromats.

History

EatStreet Corporate Office

EatStreet was founded in 2010 in Madison, Wisconsin. Originally named BadgerBites, the company offers delivery service from local restaurants. Initially, the company operated solely in the Madison area.

Today, EatStreet operates out of 150 major US cities and has contracts with more than 15,000 restaurants. The company takes orders via their mobile app, from their online site, other digital sites, as well as Facebook. In 2013, the company was named #2 on StrategyEye’s list of Food Delivery Start Up to Watch.

EatStreet uses a clients address or location address and lists all available restaurants in the area. Diners can then filter the list based on price, food type, or delivery range.

EatStreet

EatStreet uses a clients address or location address and lists all available restaurants in the area. Diners can then filter the list based on price, food type, or delivery range.

History

Instacart Corporate Office

Instacart was founded in 2012 in San Francisco, California, by former Amazon employee Apoorva Mehta. Mehta wanted to create a delivery service similar to Amazon, but one that delivered fresh produce and groceries to customers from their local stores within hours after being ordered.

The company offers a delivery service of items purchased from a wide variety of grocery stores, as well as other types of stores, including Ralph’s, Market Basket, Petco, Costco, and Target, to name a few. Forbes magazine listed Instacart as “the most promising company in America” in January of 2015

Instacart mainly operates via its smartphone app, but it can be used on laptops, tablets, or desktop computers. Customers pay online as well via Apple Pay or Android Pay.

Instacart has approximately 500 employees, operates out of 15 major cities, including Denver and Los Angeles, and offers delivery from 24 stores, with more being added. In December of 2015, Instacart raised their prices by 50 percent, while cutting their payment to couriers by 50 percent in some areas.

In September of 2016, the company announced an expansion to their North Chicago area and in October of 2016, Instacart expanded their Orange County and Minneapolis coverage areas.

As of March 2017, Instacart services 36 markets, composed of 1,200 cities in 25 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.

Also in March of 2017, Instacart agreed to pay a $4.6 million class action settlement stemming from the misclassification of its shopping employees as independent contractors. The suit alleged 18 violations, including improper tip pooling and failure to reimburse workers for business expenses.

Instacart shoppers complain that they face very harsh metrics, and can possibly lose their job for something as simple as an unplanned bathroom break.

The company has also been plagued with hackers and bots.

On September 3rd, 2020, the company added 7-Eleven to Instacarts list of available stores.

Headquarters for the company are located in San Francisco, California.

Instacart

History

Instacart mainly operates via its smartphone app, but it can be used on laptops, tablets, or desktop computers. Customers pay online as well via Apple Pay or Android Pay.

In September of 2016, the company announced an expansion to their North Chicago area and in October of 2016, Instacart expanded their Orange County and Minneapolis coverage areas.

Instacart shoppers complain that they face very harsh metrics, and can possibly lose their job for something as simple as an unplanned bathroom break.

The company has also been plagued with hackers and bots.

On September 3rd, 2020, the company added 7-Eleven to Instacarts list of available stores.

Headquarters for the company are located in San Francisco, California.

Red Line Courier Corporate Office

Red Line Courier was founded in 1995 in Mission Hills, California. The company offers courier and freight service throughout the state of California. Orders can be placed online or via telephone. The company hand delivers all items using marked trucks, cars, and uniformed drivers.

The company specializes in document and medical deliveries, such as legal documents, medical documents or files, messenger service, or mail forwarding. The company offers 2 hour, 4 hour, same day delivery or 24 hour delivery services. All drivers and delivery persons are bonded and insured.

Red Line Courier has a 5 star rating on Google, is listed as a member of good standing with the Better Business Bureau, and is certified by the California Delivery Association.

Red Line Courier

Red Line Courier has a 5 star rating on Google, is listed as a member of good standing with the Better Business Bureau, and is certified by the California Delivery Association.

History

Bite Squad Corporate Office

Bite Squad was founded in 2012 by current CEO and owner Kian Salehi. Salehi and friend Arash Allaei, realized that there was a great need in the metropolitan Minneapolis area for a food delivery service. While the company began in Minneapolis, today it also serves St. Paul, Minnesota, Austin, Texas, Denver, Colorado, and recently expanded to include Seattle, Washington, Orlando, Florida, Little Rock, Arkansas, Las Vegas, Nevada. and even Hawaii.

Using in-house developed technology, the company uses an algorithm which measures cooking time, the number of orders being placed, available drivers and even traffic flow to generate as precise an arrival time as possible. Customers, who place and track their order in real time online or through the Bite Squad app, get a text or call, including the driver’s picture, when they are nearby.

The company began with only 5 drivers and service to 17 restaurants. Today has 4,000 drivers, who are employees of the company, not “contracted drivers”. All drivers are in clearly marked cars, wear uniforms, and must use insulated boxes.

The company operates a restaurant food delivery service. Bite Squad claims to have thousands of restaurants and the company delivers within 7 miles of any given restaurant. Gift cards are available and pre-scheduled delivery is also available.

In 2017, the company acquired TakeOut Taxi, which opened up the Bethesda, Maryland, market to Bite Squad. And in January 2019, the company acquired delivery service LandShark.

Bite Squad was acquired by Waitr Holdings at the end of 2018 for $321 million.

Bite Squad was late introducing a mobile phone app, but did put one in the iTunes store in late 2015.

Due to the coronavirus in 2020, Bite Squad began hiring hundreds of drivers in a variety of cities, including Honolulu, Hawaii, Abilene, Texas, Wausau, Wisconsin, and Knoxville, Tennessee.

Company headquarters remain in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at this time. It is unknown if their acquisition by Waitr will change this.

Bite Squad

History

In 2017, the company acquired TakeOut Taxi, which opened up the Bethesda, Maryland, market to Bite Squad. And in January 2019, the company acquired delivery service LandShark.

Bite Squad was acquired by Waitr Holdings at the end of 2018 for $321 million.

Bite Squad was late introducing a mobile phone app, but did put one in the iTunes store in late 2015.

Due to the coronavirus in 2020, Bite Squad began hiring hundreds of drivers in a variety of cities, including Honolulu, Hawaii, Abilene, Texas, Wausau, Wisconsin, and Knoxville, Tennessee.

Company headquarters remain in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at this time. It is unknown if their acquisition by Waitr will change this.