An executive of ride-hailing JoyRide motorcycle service on Sunday disclosed a plan to join the food delivery service to generate economic opportunities for merchants and delivery-partners.
Noli Eala, JoyRide vice president for corporate affairs, said the Filipino-owned firm wants to help not only restaurants to skip costs for food delivery, such as buying motorcycles and salary and for delivery crew, but also micro-entrepreneurs loans to merchants to enable them to grow their business.
“Food delivery is a natural extension of our transport offerings. Since we have overwhelming pool of bikers, it is really inevitable to venture to this business. We also wanted to provide more livelihood opportunities for the Filipino people,” he said.
“Food is the most popular product in the delivery service industry. When the delivery service was born many years ago, it was the variety of food products that encouraged the door-to-door service. JoyRide also hopes to deliver positive impact into the lives of our people by providing them economic opportunities especially for local businesses and to create jobs for delivery-partners,” he added.
JoyRide is set to compete with food delivery services of Singaporean-owned Grab Philippines and HonestBee, and the Germany-based FoodPanda.
Apart from its plan to have a food delivery service platform, JoyRide would also introduce various features of their online applications that could cater to all kinds of customers.