Grubhub delivered: These sweet and sour foods topped 2023 delivery trends
Grubhub has revealed its top food trends of 2023, and spoiler: Grubhub customers believe pineapple belongs on pizza.
The delivery app released its 2023 Grubhub delivered, looking at the top food delivery trends of 2023. Pickles, french fries and pineapple on pizza were just a few of the trends that stood out.
According to Grubhub, french fries were the most ordered side dish this year, with 600,000 customers ordering their salad paired with french fries in 2023. Classic cut fries topped the list, followed by waffle fries, cheese fries, sweet potato fries and curly fries.
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Pickles made a big splash in Grubhub trends as well, with more than 6.9 million pickles ordered in 2023.
A Grubhub sign is displayed on a store front on July 07, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress)
"People embraced their love of pickles – from food to fashion (if you own the viral pickle sweatshirt, we see you) – and put the salty, briny indulgences on everything," Grubhub said.
Pineapple on pizza is becoming more popular for Grubhub users, the app says, with pineapple being added to pizzas 33% more than last year.
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Here are some other Grubhub delivery trends of 2023:
Top 5 Coffee Beverages Ordered in 2023:
Iced coffee beverage in a clear plastic cup on a wooden table inside a Starbucks location, Moraga, California, August 3, 2023. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
Iced Coffee
Caramel Frappe
Mocha Frappe
Cappuccino
Hot Coffee
Top 5 Sodas Ordered in 2023:
Coca Cola soft drink self serving vending machine. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Diet Coke
Coke
Sprite
Dr. Pepper
Ginger Ale
Top 5 Spicy Dishes Ordered in 2023
Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich (Nick Kindelsperger/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Spicy potato soft tacos
Spicy chicken sandwich
Spicy tuna roll
Hot and sour soup
Drunken noodles
Top 5 Pizza Orders in 2023:
A Hawaiian (ham and pineapple) pizza (Photo by Angelika Warmuth/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Cheese Pizza
Margherita Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Buffalo Chicken Pizza
Hawaiian Pizza
Grubhub features more than 365,000 restaurant partners in over 4,000 U.S. cities.