Delivery Hero is a Berlin company, founded and still headquartered in the German capital. It also doesn’t really run a food delivery business in Germany hasn’t, in any meaningful way, since 2018, when it sold its entire German operation (the Lieferheld, Pizza.de and foodora brands) to Dutch rival Takeaway.com for roughly €930 million. A brief 2021 attempt to re-enter its own home market ended within the year, when Delivery Hero exited again citing high costs. If the UK’s 2026 food delivery story is about who just bought whom, Germany’s is stranger still: its best-known delivery brand isn’t actually a player in its own country’s delivery market.

What took Delivery Hero’s place is now the dominant force in German food delivery: Lieferando, the German brand of Just Eat Takeaway, which absorbed Delivery Hero’s brands back in 2018 and is now as of October 2025 owned by Prosus, the same investment group that bought Just Eat Takeaway in the deal that also reshaped the UK market. Wolt, the Finnish platform DoorDash acquired for $8.1 billion in 2022, is Lieferando’s main urban rival meaning the same two global acquirers, DoorDash and Prosus, now compete against each other in both the UK (Deliveroo vs. Just Eat) and Germany (Wolt vs. Lieferando).

That near-monopoly structure is the defining fact of German food delivery data: Lieferando is close to the only option across most of the country, contested only in five or six major cities. Grocery quick commerce tells a similar consolidation story to the UK’s — Getir, having already swallowed Berlin-founded rival Gorillas, shut down its German operations on 15 May 2024, the same week it exited the UK and the Netherlands. But unlike the UK, where a supermarket (Tesco) won by converting its own stores, Germany’s winner is Flink a dedicated dark-store operator backed by supermarket group REWE rather than run by one.

This guide serves two audiences. For consumers: the best food delivery app in Germany in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Cologne — with a city-by-city breakdown. For B2B teams FMCG brands, restaurant chains, D2C brands, investors and market researchers — a complete map of what structured data is available from each German platform, how businesses use it for competitive intelligence, and how to access it at scale.

Germany Food Delivery Market Share 2026 — Who Dominates?

German food delivery splits into the same two tiers as the UK and India restaurant delivery and quick-commerce grocery but the restaurant tier here is far less contested than the UK’s three-way fight. Outside a handful of major cities, one platform is close to the only realistic option.

Restaurant Food Delivery — A Near-Monopoly Outside the Big Cities

Commission structures reflect the same pecking order: Lieferando charges restaurants up to 30% for platform delivery (around 13% for self-delivery or pickup), while Wolt and Uber Eats both run closer to 25-30% for platform-delivered orders, per commission comparisons published in 2026.

Quick Commerce — Flink Wins the Post-Getir Market

The throughline connecting both tables is Delivery Hero’s absence and Prosus/DoorDash’s presence. Delivery Hero Berlin-founded, still headquartered there sold its entire German food-delivery business (Lieferheld, Pizza.de, foodora) to Takeaway.com in 2018 for roughly €930 million, then tried and failed to re-enter in 2021. The buyer of that 2018 deal, now under Prosus ownership since October 2025, is the same corporate group that bought the UK’s Just Eat in the deal covered in FoodSpark’s UK food delivery guide. And DoorDash Deliveroo’s new UK owner bought Wolt in 2022 for $8.1 billion, a bigger deal than the Deliveroo acquisition. FoodSpark’s Food Aggregators scraping service tracks both German aggregators regardless of which global group currently owns them.

List of Food Delivery Companies in Germany — Top 10 Full Profiles

Here is the complete list of food delivery companies operating in Germany in 2026, covering each company’s positioning, ownership and the structured data extractable from each platform.

1. Lieferando (Prosus) — Germany’s Near-Monopoly Aggregator

Lieferando is the German brand of Just Eat Takeaway, and it became the country’s dominant food delivery platform in 2018 when it absorbed Delivery Hero’s entire German business the Lieferheld, Pizza.de and foodora brands. In October 2025, Prosus completed its €4.1 billion acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway, putting Lieferando under the same ownership structure that now controls Just Eat in the UK. Lieferando generated an estimated €720 million in German revenue in 2024 and holds 5-8 million monthly active users in most mid-size German towns, it’s the only viable delivery app at all.

Data extractable from Lieferando: restaurant names, addresses by city and PLZ (postcode), cuisine type, aggregate rating, review count and text, menu items (€, VAT-inclusive), delivery fee, operating hours, and self-delivery vs. platform-delivery flags. No dedicated Lieferando page exists on FoodSpark yet — FoodSpark’s Food Aggregators scraping and food data scraping services build custom Lieferando extraction on request.

2. Wolt (DoorDash) — The Premium Urban Challenger

Wolt was founded in Helsinki in 2014 and acquired by DoorDash in 2022 for $8.1 billion a bigger deal than DoorDash’s later Deliveroo acquisition in the UK. In Germany, Wolt holds an estimated 1-2 million monthly active users, concentrated almost entirely in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt and Cologne, and positions itself on curated, higher-end restaurant partnerships rather than sheer breadth. Its Wolt+ subscription (around €9.99/month) offers unlimited free delivery and partner discounts.

Data extractable from Wolt: restaurant listings, € menu pricing, aggregate ratings, review text, delivery fee structures, and Wolt+ eligibility. FoodSpark’s wolt api and wolt data scraping service extract both fields at city or postcode scope.

3. Uber Eats — A Minor Player in Germany

Unlike its position in the UK, Uber Eats has never built significant scale in Germany, operating in only a handful of cities Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich, in limited scope and remains the smallest of the three restaurant-delivery aggregators here.

Data extractable: restaurant listings and menu pricing where Uber Eats operates, covered under FoodSpark’s Food Aggregators scraping service alongside Lieferando and Wolt.

4. Delivery Hero — Berlin-Founded, Absent From Its Own Market

Delivery Hero was founded in Berlin in 2011 and remains headquartered there, but it hasn’t meaningfully operated a German food-delivery business since 2018, when it sold Lieferheld, Pizza.de and foodora to Takeaway.com for roughly €930 million the deal that created today’s Lieferando. Delivery Hero tried to re-enter the German market in May 2021, after Uber Eats and Wolt had both established a presence, and exited again by December that year, citing high costs. Today, Delivery Hero operates primarily outside its home country across Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere in Europe.

Why it matters for data teams: any global Delivery Hero dataset by definition doesn’t cover the German food-delivery market a genuine gap worth flagging for anyone assuming a “German” company’s data footprint includes its own country. FoodSpark’s Delivery Hero restaurant data scraping service covers Delivery Hero’s actual operating markets.

5. Flink (REWE-backed) — Germany’s Quick Commerce Leader

Flink was founded in Berlin in 2020 and, after Getir and Gorillas both exited the German market, consolidated its position as the country’s dominant quick-commerce grocery app. Backed by supermarket group REWE alongside Prosus and Northzone, Flink runs a dark-store network in major cities including Berlin, Munich and Hamburg, delivers in roughly 10-35 minutes, and reports an average basket value above €45. Flink reached EBITDA profitability in March 2026 and raised a further $100 million (led by Prosus) around the same time, with an explicit goal of raising German quick-commerce penetration from an estimated 3.5-6% toward the UK’s higher 14% rate.

Data extractable from Flink: grocery SKU names, brand, pack size, current price, Grundpreis (unit price per kg/litre), discount depth, dark-store availability by PLZ, and Pfand deposit flags on beverage containers. No dedicated Flink page exists on FoodSpark yet FoodSpark’s grocery data api and grocery data scraping services build custom Flink extraction on request.

6. REWE — The Supermarket Behind Flink

REWE is one of Germany’s largest supermarket groups, stocking around 10,000 items through its own delivery operation while also anchoring Flink’s quick-commerce network as its lead investor a very different relationship from Tesco’s UK approach of running Whoosh entirely in-house.

Data extractable: SKU pricing, Grundpreis, and product availability, covered under FoodSpark’s grocery data scraping service.

7. Edeka

Edeka runs a similar traditional-retailer delivery model to REWE, partnering with delivery platforms for express fulfilment rather than operating a dedicated dark-store fleet of its own.

Data extractable: SKU pricing and availability, covered under FoodSpark’s grocery data api.

8. Picnic — The Budget Hub-Based Model

Picnic, a Dutch grocery delivery company, operates in Germany through distribution hubs rather than neighbourhood dark stores, keeping costs and prices lower than Flink’s rapid-delivery model.

Data extractable: SKU pricing and delivery-slot availability, covered under FoodSpark’s grocery data scraping service.

9. Knuspr — Premium and Organic

Knuspr, part of the Czech Rohlik Group, positions itself as a premium online grocer focused on fresh produce and organic selection, competing for a different customer than Flink’s speed-first or Picnic’s budget-first models.

Data extractable: SKU pricing and organic-certification flags, covered under FoodSpark’s grocery data api.

10. HelloFresh — Germany’s Global Food-Tech Export

HelloFresh, founded in Berlin in 2011 by Dominik Richter and Thomas Griesel, is a rare Germany-founded food-tech success story that scaled globally rather than exiting its own home market a deliberate contrast to the Delivery Hero and Getir/Gorillas stories above. It now employs 15,000+ people worldwide, running a meal-kit subscription model rather than on-demand delivery.

Data extractable from HelloFresh: recipe and ingredient data, box pricing, subscription tiers, and delivery scheduling. FoodSpark’s HelloFresh grocery data scraping service and recipe delivery data scraping page cover both angles.

Getir / Gorillas — Closed Out

Getir acquired Berlin-founded quick-commerce pioneer Gorillas for $1.2 billion in December 2022, then shut down all German operations on 15 May 2024 the same week it exited the UK and the Netherlands to refocus entirely on its home market of Turkey. Included here for completeness and historical data continuity, not as a current competitor; FoodSpark’s existing Gorillas page remains useful for historical German quick-commerce datasets.

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Quick Commerce Data Intelligence — Germany’s REWE-Backed Consolidation

Germany went through the same 2024 pure-play exit wave as the UK, but the winner that emerged looks structurally different and that difference matters for anyone building a data strategy around it.

Why Flink, Not a Supermarket’s Own App, Won German Quick Commerce

Tesco won UK quick commerce by converting its own store network into Whoosh. Germany’s equivalent supermarket giant, REWE, took the opposite approach: rather than build an in-house rapid-delivery arm, it backed Flink an independent dark-store operator as its lead investor, alongside Prosus and Northzone. Flink now runs the dark-store network directly, REWE supplies supply-chain stability and category expertise, and the result reached EBITDA profitability in March 2026, with a further $100 million raised (led by Prosus) shortly after. It’s a fundamentally different data landscape from the UK’s: in Britain, a single retailer’s own app dominates; in Germany, a dedicated quick-commerce specialist dominates with a retailer’s backing rather than its brand. FoodSpark’s quick commerce data api guide covers extraction from both models.

Delivery Hero’s Absence — A Data-Access Implication, Not Just a History Lesson

Delivery Hero’s 2018 exit and failed 2021 re-entry aren’t just a corporate curiosity they matter directly for data sourcing. Any team assuming a “leading German food-tech company” dataset from Delivery Hero includes German restaurant or delivery listings would be wrong: Delivery Hero’s active markets today are almost entirely outside Germany. FoodSpark’s Delivery Hero restaurant data scraping service covers the markets Delivery Hero actually operates in useful context before scoping any project that assumes German coverage from that source.

Best Food Delivery App in Germany — City-by-City Guide

Notes: ✓ = confirmed coverage ~ = limited or expanding ✗ = not currently available. (Flag for the writer: verify each platform’s live coverage checker before publishing.)

Best Food Delivery App in Berlin 2026

Berlin is Germany’s most competitive food delivery market by a wide margin it’s where Gorillas was founded, where Flink got its start, and where Wolt and Uber Eats both concentrate the bulk of their German presence. It’s the closest German equivalent to how London functions in the UK or Bangalore in India: dense, tech-forward, and the richest single city for restaurant and grocery data.

Berlin’s food scene is also Germany’s most international, which shows up directly in review and menu data a useful signal for any cuisine-trend or demand-forecasting model built on German food delivery data.

Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne — Strong Secondary Markets

Munich: Full coverage across Lieferando, Wolt, Uber Eats and Flink; a wealthy, tech-industry-heavy population supports both premium restaurant delivery and fast grocery.

Hamburg: Strong Lieferando, Wolt and Flink presence; Germany’s second-largest city and a solid secondary market for all major platforms.

Frankfurt: Full aggregator coverage given its financial-sector workforce and international population, though quick-commerce grocery coverage (Flink, Knuspr) is thinner here than in Berlin, Munich or Hamburg.

Cologne: Strong Lieferando and Wolt coverage, plus Picnic’s clearest foothold among the cities in this guide a useful data point for anyone benchmarking Picnic’s expansion pattern.

Rest of Germany — Where Lieferando Is the Only Option

Outside these five cities, the picture inverts compared to the UK. In Britain, both Just Eat and Tesco Whoosh reach the vast majority of the country; in Germany, Lieferando alone plays that role for restaurant delivery, while Wolt, Uber Eats and most quick-commerce grocery apps thin out fast once you leave the top five to six cities. REWE’s traditional delivery service, thanks to its broader supermarket footprint, reaches further into suburban and rural Germany than Flink’s dark-store network does. For any business assessing digital food-ordering readiness in a smaller German town, Lieferando and REWE coverage data are the most reliable early signals much as Just Eat and Tesco Whoosh function in the UK’s less-covered regions.

What Data Can You Extract from Germany’s Food Delivery Platforms?

German food delivery platforms carry structured data shaped by fields that neither the UK nor India requires in quite the same form.

Platform-by-Platform Data Field Coverage

Notes: ✓ = field available and extractable ~ = partial coverage ✗ = not applicable to this platform type

Three fields are distinctly German:

• Grundpreis (unit price): German law requires packaged groceries to display a price per standardised unit (per kg, per litre) alongside the total price the German equivalent of the structured discount metric India’s MRP field and the UK’s VAT-inclusive gap provide, and essential for any cross-retailer FMCG price comparison.
• Pfand (deposit-return system): most bottles and cans carry a mandatory deposit, refunded on return a genuinely unique structured field with no UK or India equivalent, and one FMCG and beverage brands need captured accurately alongside base price.
• PLZ-level (postcode) availability: Flink’s and REWE’s dark-store and delivery-zone coverage is gated by postcode, the same concept as UK postcode gating and India’s pincode gating, just under Germany’s five-digit Postleitzahl system.

Restaurant Platform Data — Lieferando and Wolt

Extractable fields include: restaurant identity (name, address, PLZ, phone, website), cuisine type and dietary tags, aggregate rating and review count, full review text and date, menu item names and € prices, delivery fee by distance, and self-delivery vs. platform-delivery flags. FoodSpark’s restaurant menu data scraping service delivers all menu and pricing fields across both aggregators.

Mobile App Data — Germany’s App-First Ordering Behaviour

As in the UK and India, the large majority of German food delivery ordering happens through mobile apps, with postcode-gated dark-store availability and promotional banners that vary by location and time of day, making standard desktop scraping approaches insufficient. FoodSpark’s mobile app data scraping service handles real-browser rendering and PLZ-level session simulation across Lieferando, Wolt, Flink and REWE.

How Businesses Use Germany Food Delivery Data — 6 Key Use Cases

Use Case 1: Cloud Kitchen Cuisine Gap Research via Lieferando and Wolt Data

Ghost kitchen operators scrape Lieferando and Wolt listing data by PLZ to identify undersupplied cuisines relative to review demand the same methodology used against Swiggy in India and Deliveroo in the UK. A dedicated German guide doesn’t exist on FoodSpark yet; in the meantime, FoodSpark’s Cloud Kitchen/Ghost Kitchen industry page and Food Aggregators scraping service cover the underlying extraction.

Use Case 2: FMCG Quick-Commerce Price Intelligence

FMCG brands listed on Flink, REWE, Edeka, Picnic and Knuspr use quick-commerce data to benchmark Grundpreis unit pricing against competitors, track Pfand-inclusive shelf pricing, and monitor promotional timing across all five retailers at once. FoodSpark’s grocery data api delivers structured, cross-retailer German pricing at PLZ level.

Use Case 3: Restaurant Competitor Price Monitoring

Restaurant chains and QSR franchises monitor Lieferando and Wolt for competitor menu pricing, tracking regional price variation (a döner shop’s pricing in Berlin vs. Munich, for instance) and self-delivery vs. platform-delivery fee structures. FoodSpark’s competitor price monitoring service delivers daily pricing data scoped to any city, PLZ or cuisine category.

Use Case 4: Rest-of-Germany Market-Entry Research

Brands expanding beyond Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Cologne use Lieferando’s near-nationwide coverage data Germany’s most reliable single early signal of digital food-ordering readiness in a smaller town — to assess restaurant density and pricing before committing capital. FoodSpark’s food data api delivers restaurant density and pricing benchmarks for any German PLZ area.

Use Case 5: Regional Cuisine and Review Sentiment Analysis

Germany’s regional food culture varies meaningfully by state Bavaria’s traditional cuisine, the Rhineland’s own specialties, and Berlin’s internationally diverse food scene all show up distinctly in Lieferando and Wolt review text. AI teams building Germany-specific recommendation or demand-forecasting models use FoodSpark’s review extraction as training data that reflects this regional variation.

Use Case 6: Investment Due Diligence — Germany’s Consolidated Landscape

VC firms, PE funds and strategic advisors evaluating the German market increasingly need Delivery Hero’s 2018-2021 history as a cautionary case study, alongside Flink’s REWE-backed profitability trajectory and the same DoorDash/Prosus rivalry now playing out in both Germany and the UK. FoodSpark’s food delivery scraping service provides investment-grade German restaurant density, quick-commerce coverage, and pricing datasets within 24-48 hours of scoping.

Key Germany Food Delivery Trends in 2026

Five structural shifts are defining how German food delivery companies compete in 2026 and creating new food data intelligence needs for businesses tracking the market.

Trend 1: Delivery Hero’s Absent Home Market Remains a Structural Oddity

Eight years after selling its German business, and five years after a failed re-entry, Delivery Hero still doesn’t meaningfully operate in the country where it’s headquartered. It’s a data-sourcing trap worth flagging every time this guide gets updated, not a one-off historical footnote.

Trend 2: Supermarkets Fund Specialists Instead of Building In-House

REWE’s approach backing Flink as an investor rather than running its own Whoosh-style app is a genuinely different bet from Tesco’s UK strategy, and one other German retailers (Edeka included) appear to be following rather than challenging directly.

Trend 3: DoorDash and Prosus Now Compete in Two Markets at Once

Wolt vs. Lieferando in Germany, Deliveroo vs. Just Eat in the UK the same two global acquirers, facing off with different brands in each country. FoodSpark’s Food Aggregators scraping service tracks both rivalries under one methodology.

Trend 4: Quick-Commerce Penetration Still Has Runway

Flink’s own stated goal raising German quick-commerce penetration from roughly 3.5-6% toward the UK’s 14% implies the German market still has meaningful headroom relative to its more mature UK counterpart, worth tracking as a leading indicator for FMCG category growth.

Trend 5: Sustainability and Electric-Fleet Positioning

German food delivery platforms have leaned into sustainability messaging electric delivery vehicles, reusable packaging pilots as a differentiator, particularly in Berlin. Verify current specifics and any regulatory detail at the time of writing rather than treating this outline as the final word.

Food Delivery Companies in Germany — FAQs

Common questions about German food delivery, answered with both consumer and B2B data context. Add FAQ JSON-LD schema to this section for rich-snippet eligibility.

What is the largest food delivery company in Germany?

Lieferando, the German brand of Just Eat Takeaway, is by far the largest, with an estimated 5-8 million monthly active users and around €720 million in German revenue in 2024. Lieferando is close to the only option in most German towns outside the top five or six cities.

Does Delivery Hero operate in Germany?

Not meaningfully. Delivery Hero, founded and headquartered in Berlin, sold its entire German food-delivery business (Lieferheld, Pizza.de, foodora) to Takeaway.com in 2018 for roughly €930 million. A 2021 attempt to re-enter ended within the year. Delivery Hero’s current operations are concentrated outside Germany.

Who owns Lieferando now?

Prosus, following its €4.1 billion acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway, completed in October 2025 the same deal that put Just Eat under Prosus ownership in the UK.

Who owns Wolt?

DoorDash, which acquired the Finnish company for $8.1 billion in 2022 a larger deal than DoorDash’s later Deliveroo acquisition in the UK.

What happened to Getir and Gorillas in Germany?

Getir acquired Berlin-founded Gorillas for $1.2 billion in December 2022, then shut down all German operations on 15 May 2024, the same week it exited the UK and the Netherlands, to refocus on its home market of Turkey.

What is the best food delivery app in Germany in 2026?

For restaurant delivery: Lieferando for the widest reach nationally, Wolt for a more premium, curated experience in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt or Cologne. For quick-commerce grocery: Flink for the fastest delivery, REWE for a full weekly shop, Picnic for budget shopping, Knuspr for premium and organic.

Which is the best quick commerce app in Germany?

Flink leads by every available measure EBITDA-profitable since March 2026, backed by REWE, Prosus and Northzone, with roughly 10-35 minute delivery and an average basket above €45.

How can I extract data from Lieferando or Wolt?

Official APIs from both platforms are restricted to approved restaurant and POS partners, not available for competitive intelligence or bulk extraction. FoodSpark’s Food Aggregators scraping service and wolt data scraping page deliver structured restaurant, menu, rating and review data from both. Free sample available on request.

How can I get Flink or REWE grocery pricing data?

FoodSpark’s grocery data scraping and grocery data api services extract Grundpreis unit pricing, Pfand deposit flags, and PLZ-level availability from Flink, REWE and the other major German grocers. Custom refresh schedules from daily to real-time are available.

Conclusion — Germany Food Delivery and the Data Behind It

Germany’s food delivery market in 2026 is defined by an irony and a consolidation. The irony: Delivery Hero, the country’s best-known food-tech company, sold its German business in 2018 and hasn’t successfully returned since Lieferando, now Prosus-owned, took its place and dominates almost everywhere outside five or six major cities. The consolidation: grocery quick commerce went through the same 2024 Getir/Gorillas exit wave as the UK, but the winner here is Flink, a dark-store specialist backed by supermarket group REWE rather than a supermarket’s own app.

For consumers: Lieferando almost everywhere, Wolt if you’re in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt or Cologne and want a more curated selection; Flink for fast grocery, REWE for a full shop, Picnic or Knuspr depending on whether budget or quality matters more.

For B2B data teams: Germany’s structured data lives in genuinely distinct fields Grundpreis unit pricing, Pfand deposit tracking, and PLZ-level dark-store gating layered under a corporate ownership map that now shares two acquirers, DoorDash and Prosus, with the UK. Understanding both the Delivery Hero anomaly and the REWE-backed quick-commerce model is the starting point for any serious German food data strategy in 2026.