Chapter 2: FoodPanda, Grab or LalaFood?

Chapter 2: FoodPanda, Grab or LalaFood?

Highlights


About Grab
About LalaFood
About FoodPanda
The difference listed
Which food service to select?

Should you consider FoodPanda, Grab, LalaFood or all?

Understanding food delivery apps

Most milk tea shops are signing up for all as there is no real difference in serving a FoodPanda rider compare to Grab rider or to LalaFood. You will make the same milk tea for one or the other.

However we know that you might be restricted. Perhaps FoodPanda does not operate in your area while Grab does. LalaFood is only available in Metro Manila. In other places FoodPanda is the only supplier while grab is not yet available in your location. In our case we were depended on FoodPanda as Grab is not (yet) active in our location. If you can go for both, go for it. There are slight advantages having Grab over FoodPanda but having them both or any is better then having none.

What is so great on Grab?

The difference with Grab

Grab has very strong market presence in Metro Manila area. But the real reason why Grab is good is this. When you get an order from Grab, the Grab rider will pay you in cash minus their share ofcourse. However, you will have your money instantly in your pocket. This is crucial for many small shop owners and if you do many sales online having your money at once is good so you can keep on buying supplies and don`t need to wait.

What is so great on LalaFood?

The difference with LalaFood

LalaFood which is part of LalaMove is basically cheaper compare to others in commissions and they also pay in cash including the commission. The commission you need to pay twice a month. This can be beneficial but also a problem unlike grab they automate it at once. Sadly they are not strong in the food market. Which means that lesser orders.

What about FoodPanda?

The difference with FoodPanda

The biggest downside of FoodPanda is the waiting time of getting your money. FoodPanda will send the money once a week. While this is faster compare to before as they before only deposited once a month the money to shops, they have quicken it to once a week. So there is improvements but having money stuck for a week is not that beneficial especially if you have 20 orders a day, which is 140 orders a week and the amount can quickly jump up to 10k pesos they you need to wait.


However, they are free customers which you might not get otherwise because they did not found you in their "A Location" app. But do not get us wrong. FoodPanda is great just only ensure you have some cash reserves so you can last until you get your weekly payment from them.

Below you will see the key points that you must know about FoodPanda, Grab and Lala Food.

Which food delivery service should you select?

It depends on multiple factors.

Here is no real answer, as not all food delivery services are everywhere. We personally would suggest to join all options if possible. Select any you want or join multiple if possible in your area. Which one you should choose depends on yourself. We are not able to recommend it as we only use FoodPanda which is the only one available in our area. Once Grab or LalaFood is available we would be joining them.

The difference listed

Category FoodPanda Grab LalaFood
Commission 30% 30% 25%
Payment Deposits After 1 week Riders pay cash Riders pay cash
Rental of Device ₱ 1,000 (monthly) No Monthly Fees No Monthly Fees
Selection of Shops Decent Largest Minimal
Users Decent Most Users Minimal
Recently we discover that FoodPanda gives you an "exclusivity bonus" of 5%. Meaning if you join Grab, LalaFood or any other local delivery FoodPanda will charge you 35% commission instead of 30%.
FoodPanda will waive the fee of the Vendor Order Device (₱ 1,000) if you hit a monthly sales of ₱ 4,000.

Which food delivery service should you select?

Here is no real answer, as not all food delivery services are everywhere. We personally would suggest to join all options if possible. Select any you want or join multiple if possible in your area. Which one you should choose depends on yourself. We are not able to recommend it as we only use FoodPanda which is the only one available in our area. Once Grab or LalaFood is available we would be joining them.

Now you have enough information to understand the difference.

Which delivery tool will you use?

Now you have enough information to understand the difference. However we will continue with FoodPanda and assuming you might be doing the same as well. The next chapter we will explore FoodPanda.


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