New Focus in Food Delivery App Development that Food Tech Startups Must Know

Are you content with your present food app startup? Have you considered any changes in the present scenario? Do you feel any change in the app usage over a period of time? These questions should naturally appear to you because the on-demand market itself is undergoing a sea of changes. New on-demand food startups are coming to the forefront and users are displacing from the existing ones.

If you want to stay relevant and serve the users with exciting food orders, then it is time for you to do something out of the ordinary.

You need not twist your mind for this, we have a slew of new ideas to make your food startup regain its glory. Also, these trends are not very difficult to implement. Even a non-technical person can approach app developers to seamlessly install it into the app.

Efficient delivery of food with big data

Data is intrinsic to the on-demand sector. So with more data, you get more use out of it. Of late, assigning delivery agents has become a big problem because of non-availability in one place and surplus in another.

The consequence of this is late delivery and order cancellation. But now with the use of Big Data, it is possible to extract maximum data about the delivery agents and streamline the position of delivery persons.

The data regarding this process will be retrieved from the delivery agent app and compared with the demand. The result then will be shared in the admin dashboard. With this, the admin can send notifications regarding the apt location.

Deliveroo is the first to apply this feature and it is working well for them.

Real-time updates of restaurant menus

Some times the customer order gets canceled because of the non-availability of food. This is a serious issue often overlooked by the admin. The restaurant panel must be able to update the availability of the menu in real-time so that it gets reflected sooner in the customer app.

Another feature of this is to notify the time of the availability of the menu to the users. It keeps them hooked on the app until the menu is available. I hope this feature minimizes the disappointment.

Let the users customize the food

This is something you might not hear of. For this, you have to work with the restaurants and persuade them to accept the customized menu. The user can do the customization from the app and revert it to the restaurant.

Food fanatics will love this feature and this option is a boon to restaurants as well. The price of these customized menus is not fixed and the restaurant can make extra money from this. The restaurants too can provide combo menus available only for online orders.

The customer app can be modified to fit options for menu customization.

Innovative advertising

Attracting users is now much simpler using the app. Augmented reality can be tapped to give the users a different experience of viewing the menu. Vivid and scintillating 3D objects of food items can be made to view in the app so that it is more attractive.

Some food app startups in Europe already tried this function and people are liking it.

Food order using tweets

Now users can order food from their Twitter using a simple tweet. If they have a Twitter account, then tweet the order along with the details using the delivery handle hashtag.

Instantly, the food app admin will send all the details including the payment. This feature is made to give an out of the world user experience.

This model can also be used in another way. The on demand food delivery app API can be combined with other top apps like Netflix or Amazon and enable the user to order while binge-watching. Interesting isn’t it?

There are so many innovative ways to attract users. Not only the customers, even you can ease the way restaurants and delivery agents work by incorporating new things in their apps.

Every year there is a lot of surprises waiting for the on-demand food app sector in terms of new features and functionalities and one has to wait till 2020 to find more about such things.

Wrapping up!

There can never be a better time than now to match your food delivery startup with the likes of Ubereats and Foodpanda. The fast-changing on-demand industry needs you to be in their pace to stay relevant.

Your next step should be to partner with app developers, preferably those who have experience in the on-demand sector. Combine with them, brainstorm ideas, and get it into your app solution. Also, keep in mind all the stakeholders before getting hold on some change.