Two north Brisbane restaurants are the first outlets on a new food delivery service aiming to take on Uber Eats
Two restaurants in north Brisbane suburb are the first to use a new app that aims to change the food delivery model. And more restaurants could be joining them soon.
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Two Brisbane restaurants are at the forefront of a push to take Uber Eats’s food delivery crown.
Wilston’s Sichuan Bang Bang and Pizzeria Violetta are the first two restaurants involved in the new WooshFood service.
The app has the backing of a number of successful Australian international food industry executives.
WooshFood’s Greg Burnett said the start-up would help train restaurants to run their own delivery services and offer a central ordering app similar to Uber Eats or Menulog.
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Uber Eats and other major international food delivery services charge about 35 per cent per order.
“When you spend $10 with a local restaurant on a multinational delivery app, about $3.50 is going offshore,” Mr Burnett said.
“For most restaurants if they make a 10 per cent margin then they are doing a bloody good job. If someone is taking a 35 per cent cut of your orders it makes it hard to survive.”
Mr Burnett said WooshFood’s service fee was yet to be set but could be as low of five per cent of an order.
Other restaurants in Wilston and Windsor will soon be invited to take part in the service as it is being developed.
Mr Burnett said the start-up wanted to help restaurants build their own delivery services.
You look at why Dominos has remained so successful, and the answer is they do their own deliveries,” he said.
“We want to help local restaurants do that themselves. The demand for food delivery apps isn’t going away. But the Uber Eats, Grub Hub model is shit for everyone.
“We’re not going to come in a tell people to cut off those other apps. We want to help restaurants manage their own deliveries rather than rely on a third party to deliver for them.”
Mr Burnett said the app launched last week and made about $3000 worth of deliveries.
“It’s exciting but it is early days. We have a lot of work to do.”
WooshFood is not the only Brisbane company looking to change the food delivery business, with Bopple passing more than 1 million orders in June.