There’s a lot to consider when choosing a food delivery service — from delivery time to the choice of restaurants and special offers. Let’s try different point of view and compare some data available publicly.

First of all let’s mention that there are too many names, but finally most of them acquired each other or merged, and I will try to sort main player names in the food delivery market.

TOP 5 OLDEST FOOD DELIVERY MARKETPLACE COMPANIES

considering the age of acquired and merged companies as well

GrubHub* — founded in 2004, Seamless (currently merged with GrubHub) was founded in 1999 (grubhub.com registered 06/NOV/2002, seamless.com registered 21/February/1995) Takeaway.com — founded in 2000 (takeaway.com registered 21/MAY/1996) Delivery Hero — founded in 2011, but companies acquired by them founded earlier in the beginnings of 2000 (deliveryhero.com registered 01/October/2010, talabat.com registered 17/April/1999) Just Eat— founded in 2001 (just-eat.com registered 09/September/2000) Zomato — founded in 2008 (zomato.com registered 25/February/2006)

TOP 5 FOOD DELIVERY COMPANIES BY “SOCIAL RECOGNITION”

considering total followers count of owned profiles in social networks (facebook, twitter, instagram), acquired and merged companies counted

Delivery Hero Zomato Uber Eats GrubHub Just Eat

TOP 5 FOOD DELIVERY COMPANIES BY PRESENCE IN COUNTRIES

considering in how many countries they accept orders

Delivery Hero (40+ countries) Zomato (24 countries) Uber Eats (15+ countries) Just Eat (13 countries) Takeaway.com (11 countries)

Thanks for reading this article, any comments and critics are appreciated.

Sources: Wikipedia, Hexometer