The UK’s food delivery market has just been through its most consequential year yet not because of runaway growth, but because of who owns it. In 2025, DoorDash agreed to acquire Deliveroo for £2.9 billion, and just months earlier Prosus agreed to acquire Just Eat Takeaway for €4.1 billion, putting two of the UK’s three dominant food delivery aggregators under new, much larger global owners within the same year. If India’s 2026 food delivery story is about how fast a market can grow, the UK’s is about how fast it can consolidate.

The UK remains the world’s third-largest online food delivery market after China and the US. Market value reached an estimated £14.3 billion in 2025 87% growth since 2019 and the average British consumer now places around 20 delivery orders a year, according to Lumina Intelligence. But unlike India’s fragmented battleground of a dozen live platforms, the UK has narrowed to three restaurant-delivery aggregators Just Eat, Deliveroo, Uber Eats now sitting inside two much larger corporate structures, alongside a quick-commerce grocery channel that, after the well-publicised collapse of venture-backed dark-store operators, has been absorbed almost entirely by the country’s own supermarkets.

That’s the shape of UK food delivery data in 2026: fewer platforms than India or the US, but each one now nested inside a bigger, more complex ownership structure and a quick-commerce channel led not by a startup, but by Tesco’s own store network.

This guide serves two audiences. For consumers: the best food delivery app in the UK in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds and Bristol 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 UK platform, how businesses use it for competitive intelligence, and how to access it at scale.

UK Food Delivery Market Share 2026 — Who Dominates?

UK food delivery in 2026 splits into two structurally different markets: restaurant food delivery (Just Eat, Deliveroo, Uber Eats) and quick-commerce grocery (Tesco Whoosh, Ocado Zoom, Asda, Morrisons, Co-op and a handful of surviving dark-store operators). Treating them as one market misses the story, because one is a three-way aggregator fight now owned by two much larger groups, and the other has been quietly won by supermarkets using stores they already had.

Restaurant Food Delivery — Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats, Newly Owned

*Share of UK respondents who used each platform in the past 12 months, per a Statista consumer survey usage reach, not revenue or order-volume share. Sources disagree sharply on occasion/revenue share (see the note below), so this table uses the one metric measured consistently across all three.

Quick Commerce — Supermarkets, Not Startups, Won This Round

The most significant structural shift behind both tables is 2025’s ownership consolidation. In May 2025, DoorDash agreed to acquire Deliveroo for £2.9 billion 180p a share, a 44% premium, valuing the business at roughly £2.4 billion enterprise value creating a combined delivery group operating in 40+ countries with around 50 million active users. That deal landed less than three months after Prosus agreed to acquire Just Eat Takeaway for €4.1 billion; the tender offer went unconditional with 90.13% of shares tendered, and the deal settled in October 2025. Just Eat’s chief executive Jitse Groen stayed on to lead the business under its new owner.

Analysts at Hargreaves Lansdown have described the likely outcome as an intense two-horse race between DoorDash and Uber in the UK market. The pattern isn’t limited to Britain either Prosus’s Just Eat deal also forced it to divest its stake in Delivery Hero, which Uber has since been quietly building into a much larger position, with Delivery Hero confirming in May 2026 that Uber had submitted an indicative €33-a-share proposal to acquire the company outright. For anyone extracting or analysing UK food delivery data in 2026, the practical implication is the same one FoodSpark’s Food Aggregators scraping service is built to handle: the platforms haven’t changed overnight, but the corporate structures and strategic priorities behind them have and that shapes everything from app features to data access policy going forward.

List of Food Delivery Companies in UK — Top 11 Full Profiles

Here is the complete list of food delivery companies operating in the UK in 2026, split by vertical, covering each company’s positioning, ownership and uniquely the structured data extractable from each platform and how B2B teams use it.

1. Just Eat (Prosus) — The UK’s Longest-Running Aggregator

Just Eat was founded in Denmark in 2001 and built its UK business into the country’s most recognisable takeaway brand, historically leading the market on brand recognition even as its share of delivery occasions has slipped to 25.2% (down 9.2 percentage points since 2022, per Lumina Intelligence). In October 2025, Prosus completed its €4.1 billion acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway, with 90.13% of shares tendered Just Eat now sits inside a European tech portfolio that also includes full ownership of Brazil’s iFood and stakes in Delivery Hero and Meituan.

Data extractable from Just Eat: restaurant names, addresses by city and postcode, cuisine type, aggregate rating, review count and text, menu items (£, VAT-inclusive), delivery fee, operating hours, and the white-label “Just Eat Go” fulfilment flags now used inside partner retailers like Tesco’s Booker network. FoodSpark’s just eat api and just eat data scraping service extract all fields at any geographic scope, from a single postcode to nationwide.

2. Deliveroo (DoorDash) — Premium Positioning, Now US-Owned

Deliveroo was founded in London in 2013 and built its reputation on restaurant quality and speed rather than sheer breadth, pairing its core marketplace with Deliveroo Editions a dark-kitchen model where partner restaurants prepare food specifically for delivery and a Deliveroo Plus subscription for free delivery and discounts. In May 2025, DoorDash agreed to acquire Deliveroo for £2.9 billion (180p a share, a 44% premium), and the deal closed later that year, folding Deliveroo into a combined group spanning 40+ countries.

Data extractable from Deliveroo: restaurant listings, menu pricing (£), Editions dark-kitchen flags, aggregate ratings, review text, delivery fee structures, Deliveroo Plus eligibility, and operating hours. Deliveroo’s own grocery and rapid-commerce arm (Hop) now accounts for roughly 16% of its total transaction value and is growing at a double-digit rate. FoodSpark’s deliveroo api and deliveroo data scraping service deliver both the restaurant marketplace and Hop grocery data; FoodSpark’s deeper dive into the Deliveroo API and its datasets covers integration specifics for developers.

3. Uber Eats — Highest Favourability, Largest by Occasion Share

Uber Eats entered the UK market in 2014 and, per Lumina Intelligence, overtook Just Eat on delivery-occasion share in 2024 the first time the historic UK leader lost that position. It also holds the highest brand favourability score of the three main platforms, according to Statista’s January 2025 consumer survey, even though Just Eat is still the most-used app by a wider margin (65% of respondents in the past 12 months vs. 54% for Uber Eats).

Data extractable from Uber Eats: restaurant listings, £ menu pricing, aggregate ratings, review text, delivery fee and ETA data, and increasingly the supermarket partnerships it’s building, including Tesco’s August 2026 launch on the platform. FoodSpark’s uber eats api and ubereats restaurant data scraping service extract all fields at city or postcode scope; FoodSpark’s guide to using the Uber Eats API covers integration for developer teams.

4. Tesco Whoosh — The UK’s Actual Quick Commerce Market Leader

Whoosh launched in 2021 and, instead of building a dark-store network from scratch the way Getir or Zepto did, Tesco simply turned its own store estate into fulfilment hubs picking, packing and dispatching from stock already on the shelf. The model worked: Whoosh now covers 1,800+ stores, reaches more than 70% of UK households, has around 1.5 million active customers, and grew sales roughly 47% year-on-year in the 19 weeks to 3 January 2026. In 2026, Tesco extended Whoosh’s reach further by launching on Uber Eats (August) and Deliveroo (later that summer), bringing Clubcard Prices and points to third-party delivery platforms for the first time.

Data extractable from Tesco: SKU-level grocery pricing, Clubcard Price vs. standard price, product availability by store and postcode, and delivery-window data. No dedicated Tesco API page exists on FoodSpark yet FoodSpark’s grocery data scraping and grocery data api services build custom Tesco extraction on request, and FoodSpark’s guide on extracting Tesco delivery data covers the methodology.

5. Ocado Zoom — The Tech-Led Grocery Pure-Play

Ocado Zoom is the rapid-delivery arm of Ocado’s wider online grocery operation, competing directly with Whoosh on speed while leaning on Ocado’s automation-heavy fulfilment technology rather than a converted-store model.

Data extractable from Ocado: SKU catalogue, pricing, promotional discounts, delivery slot availability, and stock status. FoodSpark’s ocado api and ocado grocery data scraping service deliver structured Ocado data at any refresh frequency.

6. Asda Express Delivery

Asda runs the same store-as-fulfilment-hub playbook as Tesco Whoosh, using its existing supermarket footprint rather than a dedicated dark-store network, and remains one of the “big four” UK grocers actively defending share in rapid delivery.

Data extractable from Asda: SKU pricing, promotions, and store-level availability. FoodSpark’s asda api delivers structured Asda grocery data; FoodSpark’s guide to extracting Asda data covers the extraction approach in more detail.

7. Morrisons Now

Morrisons Now runs its rapid grocery delivery through a Deliveroo partnership rather than an owned delivery fleet an aggregator-partnered model shared by several of the “big four” outside Tesco and Asda’s more store-led approaches.

Data extractable: SKU pricing and availability by store, deliverable through FoodSpark’s grocery data scraping service scoped to Morrisons’ Deliveroo-listed catalogue.

8. Co-op (Peckish)

Co-op’s convenience-store-led rapid delivery push, branded Peckish, is backed by a first-year investment of around £1 million and an explicit goal of capturing close to a third of the UK’s store-to-door rapid delivery market by 2027 an ambitious target given Whoosh’s head start, but consistent with Co-op’s dense high-street convenience footprint being well-suited to sub-30-minute delivery.

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

9. Amazon Now

Amazon Now entered London in 2026 with a 30-minute delivery promise, echoing the same aggressive speed play Amazon Now ran in India, but so far scoped to London rather than a fast, wide UK rollout.

Data extractable: SKU pricing vs. standard Amazon pricing, Prime-member pricing tiers, and delivery-window availability by London postcode. FoodSpark’s amazon fresh api covers Amazon’s UK grocery data, the closest available structured feed while Amazon Now’s own footprint remains London-only.

10. Gopuff — One of the Few Surviving Pure-Plays

While Getir (which had already absorbed Gorillas and Weezy) and Zapp both exited the UK by 2024, Gopuff remains one of the few venture-backed dark-store operators still active in the market a useful bellwether for whether the pure-play model can coexist with supermarket-led quick commerce long-term.

Data extractable from Gopuff: SKU pricing, discount depth, and dark-store availability by postcode. FoodSpark’s gopuff api and gopuff data scraping service extract this data at any refresh schedule.

11. Sainsbury’s — A Cautionary Data Point, Not a Growth Story

Sainsbury’s Chop Chop rapid-delivery service, launched in 2016, was discontinued in early 2026 in favour of routing fast delivery through Sainsbury’s main app and third-party couriers instead. It’s the clearest evidence yet that not every UK quick-commerce bet has followed Whoosh’s trajectory worth including in any competitive dataset as a reminder that the store-led model isn’t automatically a winning one on its own; execution and scale matter.

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Quick Commerce Data Intelligence — UK’s Consolidating B2B Data Opportunity

UK quick commerce in 2026 tells a very different story from India’s six-way dark-store price war, and understanding that difference is essential for any FMCG brand, D2C company or market researcher operating here.

Why UK Quick Commerce Data Now Means Supermarket Data, Not Startup Data

The venture-backed land grab that defined UK rapid grocery in 2021–2022 is over. Getir which had already bought Gorillas and Weezy pulled out of the UK by 2024, and Zapp shut down too. What replaced them wasn’t a new pure-play winner; it was Tesco turning its existing 1,800+ stores into fulfilment hubs rather than building dark stores from scratch, a far cheaper model that’s now growing sales roughly 47% year-on-year. The UK quick commerce market is valued at around $3.02 billion in 2026, growing at a modest 6.88% CAGR to $4.22 billion by 2031, according to Mordor Intelligence a fraction of the pace India’s quick commerce sector is running at, and a useful reminder not to import India’s growth assumptions into a UK forecast.

The aggregators haven’t disappeared from grocery they’ve repositioned as infrastructure. Tesco’s 2026 launches on Uber Eats and Deliveroo sit on top of Whoosh rather than replacing it, and Just Eat’s white-label “Just Eat Go” product now powers rapid delivery for parts of Tesco’s Booker convenience network. FoodSpark’s quick commerce data api guide covers how to extract this blended supermarket-plus-aggregator data the structured intelligence layer FMCG brands need to track UK grocery availability and pricing across both an app’s own listings and the aggregator platforms reselling that same inventory.

Aggregator Ownership Fragmentation — A New Extraction Challenge

Where India’s ONDC protocol fragmented restaurant data across buyer apps by design, the UK’s fragmentation is a side-effect of 2025’s M&A wave. Deliveroo now reports up through DoorDash’s global data and product strategy; Just Eat now sits inside Prosus’s European tech portfolio alongside iFood and stakes in Delivery Hero and Meituan. For competitive intelligence and investment due-diligence teams, this means UK food delivery data increasingly needs to be read in the context of two much larger, US- and Netherlands-headquartered corporate strategies rather than as three independent British companies.

FoodSpark’s Food Aggregators scraping service handles multi-source extraction across Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats regardless of ownership structure delivering a unified UK restaurant and pricing dataset even as the corporate map behind it keeps shifting.

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

Most consumer guides answer “which app is biggest” the question people actually search is which app is best where they live. Here’s a coverage table across the UK’s major cities, followed by a dedicated breakdown for London.

Notes: ✓ = confirmed coverage ~ = limited or expanding ✗ = not currently available. (Flag for the writer: verify exact rest-of-UK and secondary-city coverage against each platform’s own coverage checker before publishing these are directional based on each company’s stated expansion pattern, not a live audit.)

Best Food Delivery App in London 2026

London is the UK’s most competitive food delivery market and the only city with Amazon Now coverage so far. Every major platform operates here at full strength, and London carries its own cost pressure that doesn’t apply elsewhere in the UK: the Transport for London Congestion Charge rose to £18 a day from 2 January 2026, which is pushing delivery operators toward electric cargo bikes and micro-fulfilment hubs that avoid central-zone vehicle exposure a genuine London-specific data point for any logistics-cost analysis.

London’s food scene is intensely reviewed on all three aggregators, and its combination of density, wealth and delivery infrastructure makes it the richest single city for UK restaurant and grocery data comparable in data depth, if not competitive structure, to how Mumbai or Bangalore function in the India piece.

Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Bristol — Strong Secondary Markets

Manchester: All three aggregators and Whoosh operate at strong density here, and Manchester’s large student population (home to several major universities) makes it a value-led, high-frequency ordering market closer in behaviour to Pune’s student-driven demand in the India market than to London’s premium positioning.

Birmingham: The UK’s second city has full coverage across restaurant and grocery platforms, with a diverse food culture spanning its large South Asian population’s cuisine alongside the usual UK takeaway staples, making Birmingham review and menu data unusually rich for cuisine-trend analysis.

Edinburgh and Glasgow: Scotland’s two largest cities run the full set of restaurant aggregators, with grocery quick-commerce still expanding Ocado Zoom and Morrisons Now have thinner coverage here than in English cities of comparable size, reflecting the general pattern of English retailers rolling out England first.

Leeds and Bristol: Both strong secondary markets with solid aggregator and Whoosh coverage; Leeds skews toward a value-conscious, student-heavy demand pattern, while Bristol’s food scene leans independent and higher-average-order-value, more similar to London’s profile in miniature.

Rest of UK — The Coverage Frontier

Outside these seven cities, Just Eat’s coverage remains the widest of the three aggregators nationally, while Deliveroo and Uber Eats concentrate more heavily in larger towns and cities. Tesco Whoosh’s 70%+ household reach means grocery quick commerce is often available in smaller towns well before restaurant aggregators achieve full density there — the reverse of the pattern in London, where restaurant delivery arrived first. For food brands and restaurant chains evaluating expansion beyond the UK’s top cities, this uneven density is itself a data point: Just Eat and Whoosh coverage data are the most reliable early signal of digital food-ordering readiness in a smaller UK town.

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

This is the section most consumer guides skip, and the most valuable one for B2B teams. UK food delivery platforms carry structured data with UK-specific fields that neither the US nor India equivalents require.

Platform-by-Platform Data Field Coverage

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

Three data fields are distinctly UK, with no direct India equivalent:

• VAT treatment: hot restaurant food delivery is standard-rated at 20% VAT, while most grocery items are zero-rated. The gap between a platform’s displayed price and its VAT-inclusive checkout price is the UK’s equivalent of India’s MRP-vs-platform-price discount metric, and it matters for any FMCG brand or restaurant benchmarking true consumer cost.
• Postcode-level availability: UK dark stores and Whoosh-style fulfilment hubs serve hyperlocal catchments gated by postcode, not city. A product available from a Tesco Whoosh-enabled Kensington store may not show as available from a Whoosh store two postcodes over comprehensive UK quick-commerce data requires postcode-level tracking, exactly as India’s pincode-gated dark stores do.
• Natasha’s Law allergen labelling: since October 2021, UK law has required full ingredient and allergen labelling on pre-packed-for-direct-sale food a legally mandated structured field with no India equivalent, and one that food-safety, nutrition and product-development teams increasingly want as structured data rather than a static PDF.

Restaurant Platform Data — Just Eat, Deliveroo, Uber Eats

Extractable fields include: restaurant identity (name, address, postcode, phone, website), cuisine type and dietary tags, aggregate rating and review count, full review text and date, menu item names and £ prices (VAT-inclusive), delivery fee by distance, estimated delivery time, and minimum order value. FoodSpark’s restaurant menu data scraping service delivers all menu and pricing fields across all three UK aggregators.

Mobile App Data — the UK’s App-First Ordering Behaviour

Like India, the bulk of UK food delivery ordering happens through mobile apps rather than desktop web, with personalised restaurant rankings, postcode-gated availability, and promotional banners that change by location and time of day. Standard desktop-rendered scraping approaches miss this content. FoodSpark’s mobile app data scraping service handles real-browser rendering, postcode simulation and session management across Just Eat, Deliveroo, Uber Eats and the major UK grocery apps, delivering the same menu, pricing and availability data end users see.

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

Use Case 1: Cloud Kitchen Cuisine Gap Research via Deliveroo Editions Data

Ghost kitchen operators considering a new site scrape Deliveroo and Just Eat listing data by postcode to see which cuisines are undersupplied relative to review demand the same methodology India’s cloud kitchen operators use against Swiggy data, applied here to Deliveroo’s own Editions dark-kitchen network. A UK-specific version of this 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 data extraction.

Use Case 2: FMCG Quick-Commerce Price Intelligence

FMCG brands listed on Tesco Whoosh, Asda, Ocado and Morrisons use quick-commerce data to track VAT-inclusive pricing against RRP, monitor unauthorised discounting, benchmark competitor pricing by category, and track promotional timing across all four retailers at once increasingly important now that the same SKU can also appear resold through Uber Eats or Deliveroo’s supermarket partnerships. FoodSpark’s grocery data api delivers structured, cross-retailer pricing at postcode level on any refresh schedule.

Use Case 3: Restaurant Competitor Price Monitoring

Restaurant chains and QSR franchises monitor Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats for competitor menu pricing in their delivery zones, tracking combo-deal structures, delivery-fee positioning, and regional price variation (a chicken shop’s pricing in Birmingham vs. Glasgow, for instance). FoodSpark’s competitor price monitoring service delivers daily pricing data scoped to any city, postcode or cuisine category.

Use Case 4: Regional (Non-London) Market-Entry Research

Restaurant chains and grocery brands expanding beyond London use Just Eat and Tesco Whoosh coverage data the two platforms with the widest UK reach to assess restaurant density, cuisine competition and pricing in smaller towns before committing capital. Given how much less analysed regional UK data is compared to London, this asymmetry is a real opportunity for brands willing to look there first. FoodSpark’s food data api delivers restaurant density and pricing benchmarks for any UK postcode area, London or otherwise.

Use Case 5: Regional Cuisine and Review Sentiment Analysis

While the UK doesn’t carry India’s multilingual review complexity, it has its own regional variation worth modelling: Glasgow and Edinburgh order patterns differ meaningfully from London’s, Birmingham’s large South Asian food culture shows up distinctly in review text, and independent-restaurant-heavy Bristol skews toward different cuisine categories than chain-dominated town centres. AI teams building UK-specific recommendation or demand-forecasting models use FoodSpark’s review extraction as training data that reflects this regional variation rather than a London-only proxy of UK taste.

Use Case 6: Investment Due Diligence — UK Food Delivery Consolidation

VC firms, PE funds and strategic advisors evaluating the UK market increasingly need to assess it through the lens of 2025’s ownership changes: DoorDash’s integration of Deliveroo, Prosus’s turnaround plan for Just Eat, and the broader Delivery Hero/Uber positioning playing out across Europe. Structured platform data validates deal-related market-sizing claims and benchmarks delivery performance against what companies disclose publicly. FoodSpark’s food delivery scraping service provides investment-grade UK restaurant density, quick-commerce coverage, and pricing datasets within 24-48 hours of scoping.

Key UK Food Delivery Trends in 2026

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

Trend 1: Consolidation — Two Aggregators, Two New Owners

DoorDash now owns Deliveroo; Prosus now owns Just Eat. What was a three-way British competition is now, functionally, DoorDash and Uber competing for the UK market, with Prosus-owned Just Eat as the remaining scaled independent brand. Data-wise, this means UK platform strategy decisions increasingly get made in San Francisco and Amsterdam rather than London.

Trend 2: Supermarkets Beat Startups at Quick Commerce

Getir, Gorillas, Weezy and Zapp all tried the dark-store-from-scratch model in the UK and all exited by 2024. Tesco Whoosh proved that converting existing stores into fulfilment hubs is both cheaper and more durable, and it’s now the clear UK quick-commerce leader by every available measure. FoodSpark’s quick commerce data api guide covers how to extract data from this now-stabilised, supermarket-led model.

Trend 3: Aggregators Become Grocery Infrastructure for Supermarkets

Rather than compete with Tesco, Uber Eats and Deliveroo are becoming Tesco’s delivery partners Tesco’s 2026 launches on both platforms sit alongside Whoosh, not in place of it, and Just Eat Go now powers parts of Tesco’s Booker network. This blurs the line between “aggregator data” and “retailer data” in a way that didn’t exist two years ago.

Trend 4: London’s Logistics Costs Are Reshaping Delivery Economics

The Transport for London Congestion Charge rose to £18 a day from 2 January 2026, adding real cost pressure that’s accelerating the shift toward electric cargo bikes and micro-fulfilment hubs in central London a city-specific cost variable that FoodSpark’s food delivery landscape analysis tracks alongside delivery ETA and coverage data.

Trend 5: Gig-Worker Classification Remains an Active Regulatory Theme

Rider and courier employment status has been a live legal and policy question in the UK for several years and continues to shape platform economics and public scrutiny of the sector. This section should be fact-checked against the latest tribunal and legislative developments at the time of writing rather than treated as settled it’s flagged here as a theme to cover, not a specific claim to publish from this outline.

Food Delivery Companies in UK — FAQs

Common questions about UK 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 the UK?

By usage, Just Eat remains the most-used platform (65% of respondents in the past 12 months, per Statista), though Uber Eats overtook it on share of delivery occasions in 2024, according to Lumina Intelligence. Just Eat is now owned by Prosus; Deliveroo is now owned by DoorDash; Uber Eats remains independent under Uber.

Who owns Deliveroo now?

DoorDash, following a £2.9 billion acquisition agreed in May 2025 and completed later that year. Deliveroo’s app and brand continue operating as before, now inside a combined delivery group spanning 40+ countries.

What happened to Getir and Gorillas in the UK?

Getir acquired Gorillas and fellow UK rapid-grocery startup Weezy, then exited the UK market entirely by 2024 as the venture-backed dark-store model proved uneconomical. Zapp shut down around the same period. Tesco Whoosh’s store-led model absorbed much of the demand these operators had been chasing.

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

For restaurant delivery: Just Eat for the widest reach, Uber Eats for the highest-rated experience, Deliveroo for premium restaurant partnerships and its Editions dark-kitchen network. For quick-commerce grocery: Tesco Whoosh for the widest coverage, Amazon Now for the fastest promise (London only), Co-op’s Peckish for convenience-format shopping.

What’s the difference between Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats?

Just Eat is the most-used app by reach and has the longest UK history; its share of delivery occasions has declined in recent years. Uber Eats has the highest brand favourability and overtook Just Eat on occasion share in 2024. Deliveroo leans premium, with its Editions dark-kitchen model and Deliveroo Plus subscription. As of 2025-26, Just Eat is Prosus-owned and Deliveroo is DoorDash-owned; Uber Eats remains independent.

Which is the best quick commerce app in the UK?

Tesco Whoosh leads by every available measure 1,800+ stores, 70%+ household reach, ~1.5M customers, and roughly 47% year-on-year sales growth. Ocado Zoom, Asda Express and Morrisons Now are the main store-led rivals. Amazon Now offers the fastest stated delivery promise but is currently London-only. Gopuff remains one of the few surviving dark-store pure-plays after Getir and Zapp’s UK exits.

How can I extract data from Deliveroo, Just Eat or Uber Eats?

Official APIs from these platforms are restricted to approved restaurant and POS partners, not available for competitive intelligence or bulk extraction. FoodSpark’s deliveroo data scraping, just eat data scraping and ubereats restaurant data scraping service deliver structured restaurant, menu, rating and review data from all three. Free 100-row sample available.

How can I get Tesco or Ocado grocery pricing data?

FoodSpark’s grocery data scraping and ocado api services extract VAT-inclusive pricing, promotional discounts, and postcode-level availability from Tesco Whoosh, Ocado and the other major UK grocers. Custom refresh schedules from daily to real-time are available.

Conclusion — UK Food Delivery and the Data Behind It

UK food delivery in 2026 has two distinct stories. Restaurant delivery is a three-way fight between Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats that just became a story about two much larger acquirers DoorDash and Prosus after 2025’s consolidation wave. Quick-commerce grocery had its own boom-and-bust: venture-backed dark-store operators (Getir, Gorillas, Weezy, Zapp) all exited by 2024, and Tesco Whoosh’s store-led model won instead, growing sales roughly 47% year-on-year and now expanding onto Uber Eats and Deliveroo themselves.

For consumers: Just Eat, Uber Eats or Deliveroo for restaurant delivery, depending on whether reach, ratings or premium restaurant selection matters most; Tesco Whoosh, Ocado Zoom or Asda for grocery, depending on which is closest and cheapest in your postcode; Amazon Now if you’re in London and want the fastest promise available.

For B2B data teams: the UK’s food delivery platforms hold structured data shaped by uniquely British factors VAT-inclusive pricing distinct from MRP-style markets, postcode-gated availability, Natasha’s Law allergen fields with no India or US equivalent, and a corporate ownership map that changed more in 2025 than in the previous five years combined. Understanding who owns what, and how supermarkets absorbed quick commerce rather than losing to it, is the starting point for any serious UK food data strategy in 2026.