Research food apps for inspiration: GruhHub, UberEats, Yelp, Tapingo

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ideas can be added under Google Docs

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Tapingo Functions:
Offers Pickup & Delivery (provides a list of campus housing addresses when you register under a university)
Payment Methods include Credit / Debit Card and Student Card
Emails receipts & stores receipts under ‘Order History’
Offers A LOT of Promo (example: Free delivery during Finals week, $1 off for first pickup order)
Includes a ‘Get Help With’ section that gives answers to the difficulties one may experience while using the app (if the user’s issue does not fall within anything listed, they could ‘Report an Issue’)

Grubhub Functions:
Offers Delivery only
Payment Methods include Debit / Credit Card and Apple Pay
Offers a ‘Filters’ tab that sorts the restaurants by delivery time, rating, and price
Offers a ‘Browse by Cuisine’ tab that sorts the restaurants in categories (example: Vegetarian, Mexican, Asian)
Emails receipts & stores receipts under ‘Order History’
Offers ‘Order Tracking’ that shows the user when the restaurant has accepted the order, made the order, and sent the order out for delivery
Offers A LOT of Promo (example: $7 off first order, 35% off first order)
User receives $10 when they refer a friend to the app

Doordash Functions:
Offers Pickup & Delivery
(I believe this is the best looking app out of all of them)
Payment Methods include Debit / Credit Card and Apple Pay
User can sort restaurants by delivery fee amount, rating, price, and cuisine
Emails receipts & stores receipts under ‘Order History’
User receives $5 when they invite a friend to the app
User has the option to enable SMS & Push Notifications to receive updates on pickup / delivery
Offers an ‘App Credit’ wherein you can load your account with money

UberEats Functions:
Offers Delivery
Payment Methods include Debit / Credit Card and Apple Pay
User can sort restaurants based on popularity, rating, delivery time, price, booking fee, and dietary restrictions
Provides a ‘Search’ tab wherein the user can choose based on cuisine
Emails receipts & stores receipts under ‘Past Orders’ and ‘Upcoming Orders’
User can report issues after the delivery transaction
User gets $5 off their order when they refer a friend to the app

Yelp Functions:
Website & App
Offers Delivery
Social networking site that lets users post reviews (photos & videos) and rate businesses (1-5 star rating)
User can connect with Friends & see their reviews and ratings
User can send messages to Friends
User can create a ‘Collection’ of businesses (kind of like Pinterest)
Offers a ‘Cash back’ system wherein the user can get up to 10% cash back for checking in at businesses
Allows you to make reservations in restaurants

Possible functions we could implement:
Invite codes (we could offer incentives?) to spread the word about our website
Create a ‘Get Help With / FAQ’ section to help people with navigating our website & to lessen emails regarding issues
Order Tracking?
Order History that stores the user’s past orders and receipts