Free eBook ยท Catering delivery

Top 5 trends for growing your
catering delivery
business in 2026

The playbook operators use to win the orders worth $430, not $40: trends, tools, and tactics from the brands leading catering delivery.

Learn from the brands that own catering

P.F. Chang's Portillo's Lou Malnati's Jason's Deli
$388B
projected catering market growth by 2028

What's inside

The ebook includes:

Efficient delivery and an exceptional customer experience help you win catering.
Here's the strategy.

  1. 5 main trends in catering delivery
  2. How to maintain excellent customer experience
  3. How to increase your delivery revenue & cut delivery costs
  4. How to manage your catering brand
  5. First-party delivery vs. third-party delivery
  6. How to implement catering order-tracking software
  7. How modern online catering ordering systems work

The ultimate solution

Catering delivery management, handled.

The same platform behind the book, built for the orders that matter most.

Smart dispatch rules

Route every order between your fleet and 50+ providers, in under a second.

In-house fleet tools

Store, dispatcher, and driver apps that keep your own drivers on time.

Branded tracking link

Your brand on every tracking page, with promo messages built in.

Reviews integration

Smart review routing sends happy customers straight to Google.

About the author

Alex Vasilkin

Alex Vasilkin

Co-Founder & CEO at Cartwheel

A business leader with over ten years in the delivery space, Alex has a passion for transformative technology that fuels business success. At Cartwheel, he drives the strategic vision and day-to-day operations behind the company's growth.

Before Cartwheel, Alex launched a restaurant with celebrity chef Govind Armstrong, quickly the top delivery restaurant on GrubHub in LA, and founded Gourmet Runner, a delivery service for hundreds of Los Angeles restaurants.

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What you'll learn:

How to increase profits for your delivery business How to manage your online reputation with third-party fleets Efficient delivery management techniques, and more

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