Uber Eats is still a secondary player in this segment, but it’s expanding the fastest. It kicked off in December 2015 in Toronto, following various food delivery experiments including Uber Fresh. The virtual restaurant program began quietly in early 2016, and by March it had spread to 10 cities. Today the company works with 1,600 virtual restaurants around the world in the 300 or so cities in which Uber Eats operates. Almost 1,000 of them are in the U.S., ranging from Co5 Farm Fresh in San Francisco to Italian Dream in Oklahoma City. The company has also expanded in Australia and New Zealand, mostly in Auckland but also in smaller cities such as Hamilton.
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