Posted Dec 11, 2014 by Business Insider
Uber 涉足餐饮配送服务业，名为 UberFRESH。如今用户在美国洛杉矶的一些餐厅订购晚餐， Uber 便可承诺10分钟之内送达。此外，Uber还在美国的其他几个城市推出了1日促销活动，可提供同样快速的午餐递送服务。面对美国巨大的外卖需求和目前稀疏的竞争对手分布，Uber在餐饮配送业的发展还是非常值得期待的。
Uber has been experimenting with a food delivery service called UberFRESH this week. It's promising to deliver dinner from a few Los Angeles restaurants in under 10 minutes, and it launched a one-day promotion in various US cities to deliver lunch from local restaurants in the same amount of time.
Looking at the market for food takeout and delivery, it looks like there is still plenty of room for Uber. Based onestimates charted for us by BI Intelligence, Americans spend $70 billion a year on food takeout and delivery, with $9 billion of that total ordered online. And of those online orders, the combined portfolio of Grubhub and Seamless comprise less than 20% of the market (Grubhub and Seamless merged in August 2013).
With the remaining 81% of the market split between various small services, there's no reason a giant international service with a ton of users, credit cards on file, and financial backing ($2.7 billion raised so far) could make a giant imprint in the food delivery market.
