Webinar
A New Way to Work With Third-Party Partners
February 23, 2021
Delivery has become an essential service for both restaurants and customers, but the traditional third-party relationship may not work for all restaurant brands.
Over the past few years, many restaurants have chosen to use strictly in-store drivers, while others have chosen to rely on third-party providers. Times, as they say, are changing, and 2021 is ripe for a hybrid trend to emerge, according to DoorDash's Zach Heerwagen.
He and Rob Tarsio, owner of Alfredo's Pizza in West Babylon, New York, discuss how customers can best partner with third-party providers as well as how DoorDash's new product offering, "Self-Delivery," works by allowing brands to use their own fleet of drivers while also tapping DoorDash to help them reach new customers.
Meet the panelists
Zach Heerwagen
Director & GM for New Products
DoorDash
Zach Heerwagen is a Director & GM for new products at DoorDash. Heerwagen has been at DoorDash for nearly 5 years incubating new merchant products & services including pickup, Drive fulfillment, marketing, and now Self-Delivery. In his current role he works most closely on new products for restaurants that offer in-house delivery and helping them to improve profitability in a rapidly changing industry.
Rob Tarsio
Owner
Alfredo's Pizza
Rob Tarsio is the restaurant owner of Alfredo's Pizza in West Babylon, New York. Rob has been a DoorDash merchant client since January 2019, utilizing the Self Delivery service to expand his business. Rob has been a single unit operator for 22 years, and has transformed his business to profitability by investing in products like DoorDash to attract and retain his customer base.
Meet the moderator
Cherryh Cansler
VP of Editorial
Networld Media Group
Cherryh Cansler is VP of Editorial for Networld Media Group and senior editor of FastCasual.com. She has been covering the restaurant industry since 2012. Her byline has appeared in Forbes, The Kansas City Star and American Fitness magazine, among many others
