29 Sep The most popular delivery food, from coast to coast
Pizza and Chinese food were once synonymous with delivery, but people can now order alcohol, sushi, and spaghetti delivered to their door.
One would think that stereotypical “delivery dishes” like lo mein and pizza would be an overwhelming favorite with Americans summoning dinner to their door, but with the pervasiveness of smartphones and the rise of food delivery apps, favorite delivery menus are becoming more diverse. Americans placed nearly one billion online orders in 2015, according to Quartz and marketing research company NPD Group, up 125 percent from 2010. That means top online food-ordering companies like GrubHub and DoorDash are collecting tons of data that can give insight into what kinds of food people get sent to their homes.
So we asked Grubhub, the middleman for more than 270,000 daily online orders in more than 1,000 U.S. cities, and delivery app DoorDash, which offers on-demand delivery services for restaurants, to share data on the most ordered and most popular food items in various locations. It turns out America’s “go-to” delivery order varies wildly.
Pizza and Chinese food were once synonymous with delivery, but people can now order alcohol, sushi, and spaghetti delivered to their door.
We looked at 2015 data showing the five “most popular” delivery food items in each state, defined as the dishes with more orders than the baseline order volume for that item across the United States. For example: The number of orders for buffalo chicken pitas in Alabama is 201 percent higher than the baseline order volume for buffalo pitas in the U.S. as a whole. DoorDash also shared their most ordered items in 19 American cities.
Of course, the data excludes the nationwide pizza chains that might first come to mind when you think about delivery. (They have their own in-house systems and are usually not on GrubHub or other third-party apps.) And for purposes of our analysis, states where data was too low or did not exist were not included.
We combined the remaining data from GrubHub and DoorDash to find the most popular delivery food items, from coast to coast: to see complete article- go to: http://www.eater.com/2016/9/26/13051528/most-ordered-food-delivery-america
