DoorDash heads to Japan as food-delivery wars heat up

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Move will allow the U.S. food-delivery app to tap into “one of the most restaurant-dense countries in the world.'

DoorDash announced its official launch in Japan on Wednesday, marking the U.S. food-delivery company’s first market expansion in Asia and its third outside its home country, after Australia and Canada.

The move into Japan would allow it to tap into “one of the most restaurant-dense countries in the world,” DoorDash said in a statement on Wednesday.Major app delivery companies such as DoorDash DASH, -4.03%, Uber’s UBER, -1.73% Uber Eats and Grubhub GRUB, +2.91% have been racing to expand into new markets, as they bet that demand for food-delivery services will continue, even as the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations picks up and restaurants begin to reopen after months of lockdown.

 

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