These food delivery statistics come straight from company reports, shareholder letters, and official releases. Many statistics pages recycle old market estimates with no clear source. By contrast, every figure here links to its source, and most carry a date. Most figures cover 2026, since 2027 has not started yet. So treat this as the latest data going into 2027. We update this page after each quarter’s results.

Top 10 Food Delivery Statistics at a Glance

Global Food Delivery Statistics: The Big Platforms

The biggest platforms now report their numbers every quarter. So these food delivery statistics are the most reliable guide to market size.

• DoorDash orders: 970 million in Q2 2026, up 27% year on year.
• DoorDash order value: Marketplace GOV rose 36% to $33.1 billion. Without Deliveroo, it still grew 23%.
• DoorDash profit: meanwhile, adjusted EBITDA rose 40% to $914 million in Q2 2026.
• DoorDash reach: the US and about 40 other countries, including Deliveroo and Wolt markets.
• Uber Delivery: gross bookings grew 26% to $27.5 billion in Q2 2026.
• Uber revenue: delivery revenue also grew 28% to $5.2 billion.
• Grocery and retail at Uber: it is reaching $15 billion in annualized gross bookings, growing about 40% a year.
• Combined: DoorDash’s $33.1 billion GOV plus Uber’s $27.5 billion delivery bookings made $60.6 billion in Q2 2026.
• Delivery Hero: in Q2 2026, GMV grew 11.3% like-for-like to €13.2 billion across about 65 countries.
• Meituan: revenue grew 14.4% to RMB 104.6 billion in Q2 2026, and net profit turned positive.
• Grab: in Q2 2026, Deliveries GMV grew 24% in constant currency to $4.25 billion.

In short, the largest groups are still growing by double digits. However, most totals include grocery and retail orders, not just restaurant meals.

Food Delivery Statistics on Deals and Consolidation

A wave of deals since 2025 is reshaping the industry. These food delivery statistics show the scale:

• Uber and Delivery Hero: Uber offered €41.50 a share, valuing Delivery Hero at about €13 billion.
• Deal timing: the offer runs until November 5, 2026, while completion is expected in the second half of 2027.
• Markets in the deal: Uber would take 50 markets with about $42 billion of GMV in 2025.
• Markets sold on: Meanwhile, SSW Partners would pay about €1.4 billion for 14 other markets.
• DoorDash and Deliveroo: DoorDash completed its Deliveroo deal in October 2025.
• Prosus and Just Eat Takeaway.com: Prosus took control in October 2025, after 90.13% of shares were tendered.
• Just Eat Takeaway.com scale: 60 million customers and 362,000 restaurant partners at the time of the deal.
• A blocked deal: by contrast, Uber ended its $950 million Foodpanda Taiwan deal in March 2025 after Taiwan blocked it.

US Food Delivery Statistics

The US is the largest market outside China. Here are the key US food delivery statistics:

• Market share: DoorDash held 67% of observed US meal delivery sales in March 2024, against 23% for Uber Eats.
• Merchants: As of December 2025, more than 600,000 merchants partnered with DoorDash, per its US impact report.
• Memberships: DoorDash added more US paid DashPass members in the year to Q2 2026 than in the prior two years.
• Delivery vs pickup: In a 2025 LendingTree study, delivery from five big chains cost 79.5% more than pickup, on average.
• Commissions: in 2021, DoorDash launched US plans with 15%, 25% or 30% commission.
• NYC pay: app delivery workers’ minimum rose to $22.13 an hour before tips in April 2026.
• Pricing backlash: 64% of US diners reacted negatively to surge and dynamic pricing in a March 2024 survey.
• Diner reaction: 81% of diners in a March 2024 survey would stop going or change times to avoid surge prices.
• Robots: DoorDash expects Dot to deliver a high single-digit share of orders in its largest test market by the end of 2026.

India Food Delivery Statistics

India has two food delivery leaders and a fast-growing quick commerce market. Together, these food delivery statistics show its scale:

• Market share: by late 2025, Zomato held about 57.3% of food delivery order value, and Swiggy 42.7%.
• Swiggy food: order value grew 17.4% to ₹9,490 crore from April to June 2026.
• Monthly users: Swiggy’s food delivery monthly transacting users also rose 17.8% to 19.2 million.
• Restaurant partners: about 265,800 restaurant partners transacted each month on average.
• Zomato food: net order value grew about 20% to ₹10,769 crore in the same quarter.
• Profit: Zomato’s food adjusted EBITDA was 5.6% of net order value in the same quarter.
• Swiggy profit: Meanwhile, Swiggy’s food delivery adjusted EBITDA was 3.1% of GOV, or ₹292 crore.

Quick Commerce in India

• Blinkit: net order value grew 86.2% to ₹17,132 crore, from 2,443 dark stores.
• Blinkit customers: it had 31.8 million monthly transacting customers, while its net average order value was ₹518.
• Swiggy Instamart: order value grew 39.8% to ₹7,907 crore, from 1,171 dark stores in 131 cities.
• Zepto: FY26 revenue roughly doubled to ₹22,623 crore, while its net loss reached ₹5,905 crore.
• Order share: in FY26, Blinkit handled about 47% of orders among the top three apps.
• Amazon Now: in September 2026, Amazon said Amazon Now had passed $1 billion in annualized gross sales in India.

Food Delivery Statistics by Region: Middle East, Europe and Latin America

Outside the US and India, these food delivery statistics show where growth and change are fastest:

• talabat: GMV grew 11% to $2.9 billion in Q2 2026, across eight Middle East markets.
• talabat customers: in addition, over seven million monthly active customers as of December 2025.
• Keeta in Saudi Arabia: Meituan’s app launched in September 2024 and turned profitable in July 2026, according to Meituan.
• Delivery Hero regions: Q2 2026 like-for-like GMV rose 29.1% in the Americas, 14.9% MENA, 8.4% Europe, 6.4% Asia.
• Getir: by contrast, in April 2024 it said it would leave the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the US.
• Flink: in March 2026, it reported EBITDA profit across about 160 hubs in Germany and the Netherlands.
• Online grocery share: about 3.5% in Germany, 6% in the Netherlands and 14% in the UK, according to Prosus.
• Brazil: iFood holds about 80% of the market, according to NeoFeed, citing Abrasel.
• New rivals in Brazil: similarly, Keeta plans to invest R$5.6 billion there over five years.

Restaurant, Ratings and Pricing Statistics

These food delivery statistics matter most for restaurant brands that sell through apps:

• Menu photos: Uber says restaurants with photos on all items can see 88% higher monthly sales.
• Order accuracy: DoorDash sets goals of under 1.1% avoidable cancellations and under 1% missing or incorrect items.
• Penalties: in addition, stores with an operations quality rate of 15% or more risk reduced visibility on DoorDash.
• Yelp stars: in a 2011 HBS study, one more star meant 5% to 9% more revenue, mainly for independents.
• Peak demand: in a 2012 Berkeley study, moving from 3.5 to 4 stars raised sell-out chances by 19 percentage points.
• Food cost: for example, Toast says a good food cost is typically 28% to 35% of food sales.
• Food waste: restaurants in a 2019 study of 114 sites cut kitchen waste by 26% on average within a year.
• Waste savings: as a result, they saved about $7 for every $1 invested.
• Off-peak deals: 77.3% of diners in a 2004 Cornell study would accept an off-peak incentive.

Rider, Regulation and Pricing Rule Statistics

Rules on riders and pricing are tightening, too. These food delivery statistics show the main changes:

• EU riders: EU countries must turn the Platform Work Directive into national law by December 2, 2026.
• Presumption of employment: under it, platform workers are presumed employees when facts show control and direction, unless platforms prove otherwise.
• Algorithm pricing: since November 10, 2025, New York requires a notice when algorithms use personal data to set prices.
• Penalties: fines under that law can reach $1,000 per violation.
• Surge pricing: 22% of US diners said they would stop visiting a regular restaurant that adopted it.

How FoodSpark Helps

FoodSpark collects public menus, prices, offers, fees, and ratings from delivery apps worldwide. So you can build your own food delivery statistics for any city or app. To learn more, see our food data API and quick commerce data scraping services. For deeper analysis, you can also read our guide to the food delivery industry worldwide.

Food Delivery Statistics: FAQs

What are the most important food delivery statistics for 2027?

Start with platform order value and growth. For example, DoorDash’s GOV and Uber’s delivery bookings totaled $60.6 billion in Q2 2026.

Which food delivery company is the largest?

Outside China, DoorDash and Uber are the largest. Meanwhile, Meituan leads food delivery in China.

How fast is food delivery growing?

Fast, at the biggest platforms. In Q2 2026, DoorDash’s order value grew 36%, and Uber’s delivery bookings grew 26%.

What is the food delivery market share in the US?

DoorDash held 67% of observed US meal delivery sales in March 2024. By contrast, Uber Eats held 23%.

What is the food delivery market share in India?

By late 2025, Zomato held about 57.3% of food delivery order value, while Swiggy held about 42.7%.

Where do these food delivery statistics come from?

Mostly from company results and official releases. In addition, a few come from surveys and academic studies, each linked above.