Under Just Eat Takeaway.com
On 2 March 2022, in a response to its announcement of losses, Just Eat Takeaway revealed plans to exit Portugal, Romania and Norway from 1 April 2022.[42][43]
On 5 May 2022, Just Eat Takeaway announced that Just Eat in the United Kingdom would be partnering with Domino's Pizza. The two launched a trial in May where ten Domino's-owned stores in London would be placed on the platform. 106 Domino's franchise partner stores in the UK were expected to be on the platform by the end of May. Just Eat would be the only food delivery app in the United Kingdom to offer Domino's.[44]
In July 2022, the company announced 390 redundancies in France, after its market capital fell following the COVID-19 pandemic.[45]
In March 2023, Just Eat Takeaway announced 1,700 delivery driver redundancies in the UK, with drivers to work as gig workers (freelancers) instead of being employed.[46]
In July 2024, Just Eat announced its intention to leave France.[47]
In August 2024, the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint that Just Eat failed to use appropriate targeting to ensure an advertisement featuring products that were high in fat, sugar and salt was not directed at under 16s.[48]
In March 2026, The UK's Competition and Markets Authority announced they were looking into whether the business had inflated the star ratings of some restaurants and grocers.[49]
Ireland
Just Eat Ireland launched in April 2008. In November 2014, Just Eat acquired 250 restaurants from Eatcity.ie.[50] Just Eat Ireland recently commissioned economic consultants DKM to carry out research on the Irish restaurant industry and found that nearly €1.5bn was spent on takeaway/delivered food by Irish consumers in 2015. DKM said in 2016 that takeaway services accounted for 57% of restaurant sales, and that the sector was likely to grow by 17% in the next four years.[51] In 2023, Just Eat reported that Irish consumers were spending approximately €2.2 billion annually on takeaway/delivered food, indicating a significant increase from the €1.5 billion spent in 2015.[52]
North America
Just Eat entered into the North American market in July 2009, bolstering its Canadian operations with the acquisition of YummyWeb (Vancouver) in April 2011, GrubCanada (Ontario) in October 2011 and OrderIt.ca in July 2015. In December 2016, Just Eat acquired SkipTheDishes for an initial, C$110 million. A further cash amount of up to C$90 million may also be payable, subject to certain financial targets being met in 2018 and 2019. Just Eat's existing Canadian operations were subsequently folded into the SkipTheDishes brand.[53]
SkipTheDishes operates a food delivery service that allows customers to order from a variety of local and national chain restaurants using the SkipTheDishes website or mobile phone app. The service is widely available across most larger centres in every province in Canada. Skip was present in a limited number of American cities including St. Louis, Omaha, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, but exited the US market in 2019.[54] SkipTheDishes is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.[55][56]
India
Just Eat India was founded on 26 July 2006, as HungryBangalore,[57] by Ritesh Dwivedy.[58] In August 2008, HungryBangalore was renamed as HungryZone.[59] HungryZone received a first round of funding raised from the Indian Angel Network. On 17 January 2011, HungryZone announced a partnership with Just Eat.[60] Just Eat bought a 60% stake in HungryZone. Just Eat disposed of its shares in its India business in January 2015.[61]
