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What are the Challenges faced by online food delivery businesses?

Day-to-day, the world is changing very quickly. Everywhere, the industries also change according to the customer demands. For everyone, they need everything to be lower-cost, faster and easily accessible. A few years back, no one provides doorstep services like food, medicine, etc. Now people can get their services at doorstep.

In this on-demand world, the online ordering system for restaurants is leading business in the industry, the scheme of this business has been changed. Food industries have taken their services to provide at customer’s doorstep. So, the customer will also be satisfied with this service.

Here, when it comes to online food delivery services, the food delivery is seeing faster growth in the business and expected to grow faster in the coming years.

Challenges to be faced

Gaining customer loyalty: Making choices to the customer’s expectation will make you maintain more customer base. Customers love it when they are treated to exclusive discounts, deals and giveaways. In this business, who don’t focus on maintaining a customer base, they will be facing some consequences. Making customers feel better will earn you their loyalty.

Alternate Pricing Model: Online food delivery business has become very competitive, adopting a pricing model which doesn’t continuously vary and driving sales is really challenging. Even in large scale restaurants, there is no guarantee of a hike in sales even after cutting the prices, as customers are always wishing for some more.

Irregular Food Quality: This will be a very challenging task to maintain the same quality of the food every time being delivered at the customer's doorstep. From the quality of the food, the customers can rate the restaurants. There is no comparison of the quality food delivered on tables in the restaurant with the food packed in a box in the name of immediate home delivery. The steps taken while packaging to provide first class food delivery to the customers is always prone to quality lapse irrespective. So, the customer compares the quality of food served in restaurants to the quality of delivery. It becomes more challenging in the online food industry.

Arrival of Big Industry: Big industries are all set to compete with the markets. So, they may have existing financial & operational resources required to meet market demand. It is quite difficult for small and independent online food delivery setups to retain their position in the market.

Many new services and technical tools are predicted to be induced in the market soon. It will be more capable and able to serve a bigger share of the market.

Conclusion:
In future, online food delivery systems seem to be bright and the online applications are trying to utilize it at their best.
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