Grubhub
Restaurant food delivery service
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| November 2024 | Wonder Group Inc. bought Grubhub from Just Eat Takeaway for $650 million. |
| May 2024 | Amazon announced that Grubhub+ would become permanently included with Amazon Prime memberships. |
| October 2023 | A Grubhub delivery driver was caught eating from and repackaging a customer's order in Long Beach, California, leading to media coverage and Grubhub suspending the driver from their platform. |
| November 2022 | Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit against Grubhub for failing to properly disclose that prices for food ordered through the service could be higher than restaurant menu prices. The investigation also revealed Grubhub's practice of routing web traffic to microsites and third-party websites. |
| July 2022 | Amazon struck a deal with Just Eat to offer Prime customers free Grubhub+ membership for a year, taking a 2% stake in the company with an option to acquire up to 15% based on performance. |
| May 17 2022 | Grubhub launched a free lunch promotional code in New York City that quickly became problematic. The promotion overwhelmed local restaurants with nearly 6,000 orders per minute, causing significant operational issues. Restaurants faced challenges including inability to fulfill orders, angry customers, and order refunds. Grubhub's claim of notifying restaurant workers in advance was disputed, and the promotion was widely considered a 'disaster' that resulted in wasted food and undelivered meals. |
| April 2022 | Just Eat considered a full sale of Grubhub after pressure from activist investor Cat Rock Capital to focus on European markets. |
| 2021 | California banned Grubhub's practice of listing restaurants without their consent, addressing the abusive behavior of adding restaurants to their platform without explicit permission. |
| 2021 | Grubhub announced a partnership with Yandex to integrate delivery robots into their platform for food deliveries, specifically targeting college campuses. |
| June 15 2021 | The sale of Grubhub to Just Eat Takeaway was completed, with Grubhub's logo changed to include the Just Eat Takeaway house. Matt Maloney, Grubhub's founder, joined the board of directors and would head North American operations. |
| June 10 2021 | Grubhub stockholders approved the transaction with Just Eat Takeaway, with Just Eat Takeaway taking operations of Grubhub. |
| January 2021 | The 'Delivery Dance' commercial became an internet meme, with many people creating parodies. The commercial featured people dancing after ordering food, set to the song 'Soy Yo' by Colombian band Bomba Estereo, and was widely criticized for being obnoxious. |
| 2020 | Grubhub released a series of animated television commercials featuring people ordering food on their app. |
| October 2020 | A group of restaurants filed a class-action lawsuit against Grubhub for listing their restaurants without permission, alleging damage to their reputations and loss of control over their online presence and customer experiences. |
| June 9 2020 | Netherlands-based Just Eat Takeaway announced an agreement to buy Grubhub for $7.3 billion in stock. |
| May 12 2020 | Uber announced it was approaching Grubhub with a takeover offer. |
| April 2020 | A group of New Yorkers filed a lawsuit against DoorDash, GrubHub, Postmates, and Uber Eats, alleging monopolistic practices related to restaurant app pricing and delivery contract terms. |
| February 2020 | Grubhub launched its Grubhub+ monthly subscription program, offering customers free, unlimited food delivery from partner restaurants for a monthly fee. |
| August 2019 | A podcast episode of Underunderstood revealed that Grubhub was using referral numbers on Yelp listings that could charge restaurants commission fees for calls, even when no order was placed. |
| June 2019 | Reports emerged alleging that Grubhub registered over 23,000 web domains in restaurants' names without their consent, potentially to generate commission revenue and prevent restaurants from building their own online presences. |
| March 2019 | Grubhub took over SkipTheDishes' operations in the United States after the company's exit from the U.S. market. |
| November 2018 | Grubhub acquired Tapingo, a San Francisco-based platform for campus food ordering. |
| October 2018 | Grubhub completed its acquisition of OrderUp. |
| September 2018 | Grubhub acquired LevelUp, a Boston-based diner engagement and payment solutions platform, for a reported $390 million cash. |
| September 2018 | Grubhub acquired certain assets from 11 franchisee-owned OrderUp markets. |
| July 2018 | Grubhub announced an expansion of its delivery capabilities to 28 new cities in the United States, further growing its market presence. |
| June 29 2018 | Broderick Bryant and Carmen Wallace file a class-action lawsuit against Grubhub in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging labor law violations including misclassification of drivers and failure to pay minimum wage and overtime. |
| February 2018 | US Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley rules in the Lawson vs. Grubhub case that Grubhub correctly classified Raef Lawson as an independent contractor, rejecting his misclassification claim. |
| 2017 | Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan alleges Grubhub deliberately misclassifies drivers as contractors by using euphemistic language like 'blocks' instead of 'shifts'. |
| October 2017 | Grubhub completed its acquisition of Eat24. |
| August 2017 | Grubhub agreed to acquire Eat24 from Yelp for $287.5 million. |
| 2016 | Grubhub was delivering in more than 50 markets across the United States, significantly expanding its service coverage. |
| November 11 2016 | Grubhub's company shares dropped 5.93% following Maloney's controversial political statement and subsequent backlash on social media. |
| November 10 2016 | Grubhub President and CEO Matt Maloney sent a company-wide memo criticizing Donald Trump's politics, asking employees who disagree to resign, which sparked significant controversy. |
| May 2016 | Grubhub acquired LAbite, a Los Angeles-based restaurant delivery service. |
| April 14 2016 | The lawsuit seeks damages retroactive to this date, covering dine-in and delivery customers in the United States at restaurants using the defendants' delivery apps. |
| December 2015 | Grubhub acquired Delivered Dish, a restaurant delivery service operating in seven markets across the Pacific Northwest and Southwest. |
| February 2015 | Grubhub acquired two food delivery companies: DiningIn from Brighton, Massachusetts, and Restaurants on the Run from Aliso Viejo, California. |
| June 2014 | Grubhub began offering delivery services for restaurants without their own delivery infrastructure, expanding their platform's capabilities. |
| April 2014 | Grubhub Seamless went public and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol GRUB. |
| August 2013 | The merger between Grubhub and Seamless was finalized. |
| May 2013 | Grubhub and Seamless announced their merger, with Seamless representing 58% of the equity and GrubHub representing 42% of the combined business. |
| February 2012 | Seamless released an iPad app. |
| September 2011 | Seamless acquired MenuPages. |
| September 2011 | Grubhub secured $50 million in Series E funding and acquired Dotmenu (parent company of Allmenus and Campusfood), completing the acquisition of AllMenus and acquiring MenuPages. |
| June 2011 | Seamless was re-privatized after Boston-based Spectrum Equity Associates invested $50 million for a minority stake from Aramark, and the company changed its name from SeamlessWeb to Seamless. |
| March 2011 | Grubhub raised $20 million in Series D funding, led by DAG Ventures. |
| November 2010 | Grubhub received $11 million in Series C funding, led by Benchmark Capital. |
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