Marriott international $mar is one of the world's largest hospitality companies. 🧵(0/8)
They run a highly asset-light model meaning they own or lease less than 1% of the hotels carrying their brands. The rest of owned by third-party partners who pay Marriott ongoing fees to manage or franchise the properties.
Today we’re launching Ask DoorDash — a new conversational way to search the app in your own words through chat, voice, a recipe link or photo. Ask DoorDash can build you a grocery cart ~5x faster than doing it manually. It takes a single prompt to complete your cart in under 2 minutes.
In early testing, nearly half of all restaurant orders made with Ask DoorDash were from a place the customer had never ordered from before, and grocery baskets built with Ask DoorDash were over 35% larger than those without. [1/3]
@UnotheInvestor Not in the short term but if it makes ordering easier and faster then its a good thing. Ordering groceries and food is still quite underpenetrated in most parts of the world