Wonder Food Halls Reinvented Delivery – and Took Back 30% of Every Order
Wonder Food Halls didn’t just compete with delivery apps – they reinvented delivery. They took what others rented (the app, the kitchen, the driver) and made it their own.
How ordering infrastructure actually works — Page 6
Notes from the people building the platform: how an order finds the right store, how dispatch picks a driver, and the decisions worth making before you launch. Written for the operators and engineers who have to run it on Monday.
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See it running on your own menu.
The shortest way to understand any of this is to watch an order go from a storefront to a store to a driver, on your locations.