GrubHub, the online and mobile food-ordering company, announced financial results for the final quarter 2014 year, as well as the completed acquisition of DiningIn and an agreement to acquire Restaurants on the Run, two of the leading restaurant delivery services in the U.S.
"We ended the year with strong growth momentum as we capitalized on the seasonally favorable conditions of the fourth quarter," says Matt Maloney, CEO. "We sent more than 200,000 orders a day to our restaurant partners during the quarter while surpassing 5 million active diners, resulting in record revenues and adjusted EBITDA. GrubHub continues to be the clear platform of choice for restaurants that want to grow their businesses profitably and for diners looking for simplicity, choice and control when ordering takeout."
The company has completed the acquisition of DiningIn and signed a definitive agreement to acquire Restaurants on the Run, subject to certain closing conditions. With the completion of these acquisitions, GrubHub will be executing deliveries for nearly 3,000 restaurants across the U.S., including in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle.
GrubHub has been conducting its own delivery tests for the past year and believes that owning the delivery experience provides a number of key benefits to its diners and restaurant partners, including: an improved diner experience due to GrubHub's additional visibility into each order; an increased number of dining choices by bringing delivery services to restaurants that do not operate such services themselves; and lower overall delivery costs due to the benefits of scale and aggregation.
"We are excited to start 2015 with these acquisitions, the completion of which will help us expand our leading position in online ordering and also make GrubHub a leader in restaurant delivery for independent restaurants," Maloney says. "DiningIn and Restaurants on the Run are ideal partners for GrubHub because of the breadth and depth of their restaurant networks and the more than 45 years of combined experience they have operating successful restaurant delivery services."
