NEWS Just Eat gives back over £9 million to its restaurant partners Just Eat has announced that it gave a £9.3 million cashback to restaurants last year, the largest amount on record, through its Booker partnership. Just Eat’s partnership with market leading wholesale provider Booker has meant the food delivery platform was able to give back more than £9 million to over 6,500 restaurant partners through the partnership’s cashback scheme, with more partners now claiming than ever before. As a Just Eat Restaurant Partner, there’s an exclusive cashback rate at Booker and Makro which can earn them up to seven per cent cashback on almost every purchase they make as well as further exclusive prices on over 18,000 products. Just Eat and Booker have worked together for over five years to support restaurants and is now more important than ever after rising inflation, soaring bills, supply issues and staff shortages emerging from the pandemic has left many restaurant partners struggling. Andrew Kenny, managing director UK at Just Eat, said: “We are only successful if our restaurant partners are successful. Supporting our restaurant partners is paramount, and our partnership with Booker is one way we can ensure we get the best discounts and offers available to them. We’ll continue to drive these deals over the next year to make sure partners are always getting the best value in everything we provide and continue to secure further savings to help them thrive.”
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Jiffy cooks up a new partnership with Miguel’s Pizza Jiffy, a local digital store boasting ultrafast delivery, has announced a new partnership with Miguel’s Pizza that will see a local kitchen hub set up in Jiffy Founded by Miguel Barclay, the restaurateur and author of the One Pound Meal books, Miguel’s Pizza will have four 14-inch pizzas – Margarita, Pepperoni, Truffle and Vegan – available from Jiffy’s hub. Bringing a taste of New York inspired pizzas to London, Miguel The partnership with Miguel’s Pizza signals the start of Jiffy’s plan to open more local kitchen hubs across the capital, with Jiffy aiming to collaborate with cafés, bars and restaurants to enable them to reach new consumers via delivery without having to have their own bricks and mortar presence. This is the latest in a sequence of growth announcements designed to support Jiffy cement itself as a leading local digital store with ultrafast delivery in London. Earlier this year, Jiffy announced its own in-house bakery service available from Jiffy In January, Jiffy announced a strategic partnership with BrewDog to launch BrewDog Express – a new delivery service being trialled in parts of London that gives customers in the relevant catchment areas access to a selection of fresh, cold BrewDog beer in minutes. Jiffy is planning to roll these Vladimir Kholiaznikov, CEO and founder, Jiffy, said: “Building on the
successful launch of our in-house bakery, which sees 300-400 orders every week, we’re excited to be partnering with London’s favourite Miguel’s Pizza. For the first time, Londoners will be able to do their groceries and have a hot meal delivered in minutes through the same app. Our pizzeria is part of an ongoing mission to innovate in the fresh and hot food category to be the ultimate online convenience store for Londoners at no extra cost.” Miguel Barclay, founder, Miguel’s Pizza, said: “We are delighted to partner with Jiffy so that we can get our iconic pizzas delivered to more customers across the capital. Our first local hub will mean that we can reach new neighbourhoods in a more efficient way, and we believe that our great product combined with Jiffy’s ultra-fast service will make for a successful recipe.” Jiffy currently has cloud stores in 16 London locations and says it has bullish plans to expand across the commuter belt and South of England. The scale-up focuses on high-quality fresh groceries and seeks to provide an alternative to last minute trips to the local convenience shop or off license. Jiffy offers a range of own label fruit and vegetable products, and it wants to enhance supply chain efficiencies by building its own warehouse infrastructure. This is with a view to sourcing the majority of products directly from manufactures by the middle of 2023.
