Filipinos have come a long way from being hesitant about ordering food online to becoming food delivery natives in just a few years since the pandemic in 2020.
It has also been one of the major adjustments many food and grocery businesses have had to adapt to maintain their market dominance and relevance for years to come.
Though the demand for physical fast food and grocery services will not dwindle immediately, there is the risk of it happening in the near future, so businesses have adapted. On the other hand, Filipinos have increased their appetite for staying at home and ordering food from the comfort of their homes.
Today, we’ll talk about the top online food delivery and grocery apps in the country.
1. foodpanda
FoodPanda is one of the biggest food delivery apps in the country and has since expanded its service area outside the reach of Metro Manila into far-away provinces, cities, and municipalities.
Their business model includes partnering with local restaurants and shops that will be listed in their ever-growing list of partners, so when their customers log into their app, they can easily browse the wide selection of food and grocery items.
As for customers, FoodPanda charges an additional fee for convenience and delivery, but they also usually give vouchers and discounts. You can use their service by doing the following:
Step 1: Download their app from the App Store, Play Store, and Huawei App Gallery. Then, register your account.
Step 2: Search for shops and restaurants from their listings and select your order.
Step 3: Input your delivery address and review for your payment.
2. GrabFood
Grab may have been synonymous with their ride-hailing app and other transportation services. However, they are also one of Metro Manila’s biggest food and grocery delivery facilities. You can rely on GrabFood to deliver food and beverages from restaurants anywhere in their service area.
They have also partnered with different fast-food chains, restaurants, and hawkers, giving you a wide selection to satisfy your cravings. Grab also incorporates reward systems and rebates for every order you make to encourage more spending.
Some good things about their service are that they allow mixing and matching your orders from different menus and just charge you once for the delivery fee, scheduled delivery if you want to order food up to two days in advance, or even self-pick-up to save for delivery fees.
To use GrabFood:
Step 1: Download the Grab app from the App Store, Play Store, and Huawei App Gallery, then register.
Step 2: In the app, select Food.
Step 3: Enter your address.
Step 4: Select your desired food from the selection of restaurants in the app.
Step 5: Add it to your cart, then pay.
3. MetroMart
Aside from food delivery, one of the newest innovations in day-to-day convenience is grocery delivery, which has greatly improved to avoid the hassle of going out of your house, fighting through heavy traffic, and queuing in long lines at check-out counters.
One of the on-demand service providers for grocery delivery is MetroMart Technologies, Inc., which was founded in 2015. They help their customers connect to their favorite stores via their website or mobile app and then receive their items at home.
You can access MetroMart’s app by downloading it via the App Store and Play Store.
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4. Pick.A.Roo
Pickaroo is a food and grocery delivery website and mobile app operating in 22 cities, mostly Metro Manila, Cavite, and Batangas. However, they envision growing further soon and expanding to other parts of the country.
They advertise a catalog of 1,800 brands and 280,000 items, giving customers variety for their needs, whether big or smaller brands, expensive or affordable.
To use Pickaroo, you may log in to their website or download their mobile app via Play Store or App Store.
5. LazMart
LazMart is a flagship store on the online shopping app Lazada, which they introduced when they entered the grocery shopping scene. Through their app, they can cater to more Filipinos looking for affordable products and items through their partner brands and deliver orders through their wide logistics network.
Through LazMart, customers can conveniently purchase everyday essentials, like food, cooking needs, beverages, health, pet, and beauty products. To access LazMart, you can download the Lazada app through the App Store, Google Play, and Huawei App Gallery and search for LazMart.
6. Shopee Supermarket
Like Lazada’s LazMart, the online shopping app, Shopee also has its own substore called the Shopee Supermarket, where you can buy affordable brands for your everyday shopping needs, including food, personal care, beverages, and more.
You can access Shopee Supermarket via the Shopee app, which you can download via the App Store, Google Play, and Huawei App Gallery.
7. Fast Food Delivery Apps
Almost all the largest fast-food chains in the country have their own food delivery services that you can easily access through their apps. They quickly realized that the food scene and people’s preferences have changed drastically in the past few years, resulting in fewer dine-in customers and more take-outs and deliveries.
Since they never want to miss out on opportunities to attract more customers through convenience and access, they developed and released their own versions that you can access independent of third-party apps, like FoodPanda and GrabFood. Here are some of the fast foods that have their own apps:
- McDelivery PH
- Jollibee Philippines
- Burger King Philippines
- Shakey’s Super App
- Chowking Philippines
- AmberFood
These fast-food chain delivery apps are among the most popular individual food delivery service apps in Google Play and the App Store.
People love convenience, and if an app can bring restaurants or grocery stores closer to them without ever leaving the house, then that is a win-win for the customers and the suppliers. However, this digital adaption may still require some time before the majority of Filipinos fully trust food delivery as much as retail delivery.
How about you? What is your favorite food and grocery delivery app?