More customers are opting to pick up their orders from restaurants to avoid high delivery fees.
Online orders account for nearly half of Dickey's sales, and she said third-party delivery orders as a proportion of these were down by 6.8% over the past year.
Free delivery directly from the Dickey's website now made up 6% of sales, up by a fifth over the past year, Dickey added.
To get the same thing delivered via Pizzeria Uno's website, which outsources it to DoorDash, the total is $22.98, including a $7.75 delivery fee.
Prices for a cheese and tomato pizza on Pizzeria Uno's site for delivery via Doordash, Grubhub, and for collection.
Persons:
DoorDash, Uber, —, Erik Frederick, –, I'm, Laura Rea Dickey, Dickey, Steve Heeley, Chris Kempczinski, Uno's Frederick, We've, Kempczinski, Gunther Plosch
Organizations:
Uno, Service, US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Locations:
Dickey's, Revere , Massachusetts, Arizona , Colorado , Indiana, Texas