
Yet another delivery service is rolling out to the Twin Cities.
The latest player is another Silicon Valley-based startup called DoorDash. It is already up and running in several other cities and has recently set up an office in the North Loop. It plans to launch its local restaurant delivery service starting in Minneapolis, St. Louis Park and Edina on June 24.
Its roll out comes on the heels of delivery service Postmates' arrival in the Twin Cities last month.
So how will DoorDash be different than the others in town offering similar services such as Bite Squad, Postmates, and GrubHub?
Fuad Hannon, a St. Paul native and general manager of the Minneapolis operation, said DoorDash uses smart algorithims to try to streamline the process and make it faster and cheaper for customers and more cost effective for local restaurants, too.
"At the heart of it, we're a technology company," he said, noting that the company has raised about $60 million in start-up financing.
Of course, we will have to wait and see how it really stacks up to the competition.
On the surface, DoorDash seems to be kind of a hybrid between Bite Squad and Postmates. Like Bite Squad, it partners with specific restaurants. And like Postmates, it has a smartphone app and uses an independent contractor model for its drivers and bikers similar to Uber.