Bananas, French fries top delivery orders

What’s with all of the bananas? Apparently that is what America’s been craving.

Whether or not it is to make banana bread – a coronavirus pandemic favourite – or to mix them into smoothies or peel and eat as they arrive, the fruit has been the preferred grocery merchandise delivered by Uber Eats over the previous 12 months.

Simply in September, Uber Eats delivered greater than 25,150 kilos – greater than 12 tons – of bananas within the U.S., based on the ridesharing firm’s Uber Eats Cravings Report, launched Wednesday. The report supplies a snapshot of what shoppers ordered from the net meals and grocery supply service over the previous 12 months. 

Uber Eats additionally delivers alcoholic drinks, which it started after its acquisition of Drizly in February 2021. The most well-liked orders: giant margaritas, Tito’s vodka, White Claw selection packs, Josh Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon and Corona. The three cities ordering probably the most alcohol deliveries? Sacramento, Palm Springs and Tampa Bay.  

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Another highlights from the Uber Eats Cravings Report:

♦ Essentially the most ordered objects: French fries, pad thai, garlic naan, soda, miso soup, California Roll, hen tikka masala, edamame, mozzarella sticks, and spicy tuna roll.

♦ Merchandise on the rise: Cheese fries, a facet order that elevated by greater than 1,234% over the previous yr.

♦ The hottest cuisines ordered: Mexican, burgers and sandwiches, Chinese language, Indian, pizza, sushi, Thai, Mediterranean, breakfast (bagels + donuts), and Vietnamese.

♦​​​​​​​ Hottest time to order: For purchasers, weekends have been the preferred days to order deliveries, with 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. the preferred time to schedule orders. The most important order? One buyer ordered $7,719.82 price of groceries – greater than 218 objects.

♦​​​​​​​ Particular orders do not upset Uber Eats. Additional soy sauce, additional spicy and additional gravy grew to become extra in style requests final yr, whereas requests lessened for additional avocado, mayo, pickles and ranch dressing.

♦​​​​​​​ Every day dishes. Relying on the day, clients had totally different particular requests. On Monday, clients have been extra prone to say “No,” to bitter cream, onions, and tomatoes. Tuesday: additional sauce. Wednesday: No tomatoes. Thursdays: Additional sauce and spice. Friday: No onions, add french fries. Saturday: Maintain the pickle. Sunday: Additional spice and crispy dishes.

♦​​​​​​​ Tremendous particular requests. Uber Eats shared some distinctive buyer requests together with this one a few pulled pork sandwich: “For those who may please totally saturate the pulled pork with the barbecue sauce – I simply need to guarantee that the pulled pork is totally coated in barbecue sauce, versus simply placing unsauced meat on the bun after which some barbecue sauce on the highest.”

Then there was the client who needed to be punished with warmth: “Let’s give this a strive tonight please. I like sizzling & spicy !! Make me cry 😢 🥵 Sizzling!!! Please make me harm. Make additional additional additional burning tremendous tremendous sizzling and spicy!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Make it so spicy you wouldn’t even eat soooooo spicy.”

And, talking to the vary of requests from Uber Eats, one buyer famous: “Necessary: facet of rainbow sprinkles,” whereas one other stated, “I simply actually need a phillips head screwdriver.”

In the course of the COVID-19 shutdown, Uber acquired meals supply service Postmates in June 2020 in a $2.5 billion inventory deal and commenced grocery supply in July 2020. Uber Eats now has greater than 1,000 lively grocery shops collaborating in its service.

Uber’s supply enterprise posted income of $12.9 billion within the second quarter of 2021, up 75% from a yr in the past.

Observe Mike Snider on Twitter: @mikesnider.