OBSERVATIONS

• For a second week in row, a strong weekly sales growth is observed. 24% weekly growth this week and 12% growth last week.
• Weekly sales are still down half of what they were pre-COVID so there is a lot to make up but the trajectory is promising.
• AOV declined by -3% for the first time in five weeks signaling sales growth is driven by increase in orders from new and existing customers.

TAKEAWAYS

• Focus on maintaining your active customer base to mitigate any further declines.
• Build strategies to start engaging with those customers that dropped off over the past month to win back through convenient and safe delivery or pick-up methods.

OBSERVATIONS

• Casual Dining saw the largest growth change moving from 5% last week to 19% sales growth this week.
• Casual Fast growth weekly sales growth remains strong moving from 14% growth last week to 20% growth this week.
• Quick Serve sales growth remained consistent with 13% week-over-week

THOUGHT STARTER

• Depending on your business, what are you doing to provide users a safe and compliant experience to place and deliver/pick-up their order?

OBSERVATIONS

• Quick Serve & Casual Fast AOV growth slowed to 1% from previous 2-4% trend. 
• Casual Dining observed first decline in AOV with a strong growth in sales driven by increased orders from new and existing customers.

TAKEAWAY

• Ensure your marketing messaging and cross-sell/upsell interactions are adjusted accordingly based on the context of what and when the user is purchasing.

OBSERVATIONS

• Even with growth in sales, there are no observable changes in DayPart from last week.
• The Morning daypart has decreased since the onset of COVID-19 and stayed consistently at ~8% for the last 4 weeks.
• 24% of sales occur in Morning & Lunch day parts. 64% of sales occur between Afternoon and Dinner.

RECOMMENDATION

• Be sure restaurants are sufficiently staffed during the afternoon and evening to meet increasing demand during those times of day.

1. Weekly sales growth continues to gain traction with 24% last week and 12% the week before. As AOV is relatively flat, this sales growth is driven by increase of orders with new and existing customers.

• As there appears to be growth in returning customers, respectively expand your marketing efforts to help returning customers have confidence in purchasing through convenience and safe delivery/pick-up methods.
• Target look-a-like of new and existing customers to identify additional customers that may be open to returning to ordering.

2. AOV declined slightly vs a strong growth week last week. This is assumed to be driven by an increase in new customers returning to ordering with lower order volume.

• Engage returning customers with upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
  Make the purchasing experience as suggestive as possible given the users’ need of party size and preferences.
• Maintain your existing purchaser base and provide experiences to increase frequency and drive cross and upsells to drive AOV.

3. Ordering dayparts remain consistent with slight consolidation of orders towards Afternoon & Evening.

• Ensure you are timing your marketing communications to help users plan their Afternoon & Dinner ordering options. Look at earlier communications for planning and Afternoon/Dinner communications for immediate action. Don’t forget to suppress users that have already purchased that day to avoid irrelevant messaging.