![](\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/wazeimage2.png?w=656\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Waze is going to help you get your coffee, donuts and breakfast food constructions faster, with a new \u201cOrder Ahead\u201d feature<\/a> that lets you do exactly that: order Dunkin\u2019 Donuts food ahead of time to pick up when you get to the restaurant. Dunkin\u2019 calls itself the \u201cfirst partner\u201d for this Waze endeavor, meaning it\u2019s likely to team up with other food providers if this works out.<\/p>\n Waze\u2019s order ahead feature requires users to also have the updated version of the Dunkin\u2019 mobile app on their iPhone or Android device, which connects in directly to the Waze app via its existing mobile ordering feature.<\/p>\n Why start with Dunkin\u2019 Donuts? Well, Waze and the coffee\/confection provider are old friends, it turns out \u2013 Waze mapped all of Dunkin\u2019s dunk destinations (that\u2019s what they call Dunkin\u2019 Donuts store locations; or at least, that\u2019s what I<\/em> call them) within the app in 2012. Waze\u2019s in-app favoriting native ad unit also started out with Dunkin\u2019 Donuts as its first partner.<\/p>\n Ordering ahead via app has become a curse and a blessing for fellow coffee seller Starbucks, which is dealing with big changes to its retail model to handle the popularity of the feature. Tying it to navigation software the people are using already to get from place to place seems like a way to juice interest even further; I\u2019m far more likely to decide that yes, I would actually like a coffee after all when I open up my navigation app and see it as an option.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also another way Waze is doing a sly, indirect end-around on Uber; the Google-owned company\u2019s Carpool is a ride-hailing competitor in certain, very specific circumstances, and Order Ahead could fit a similar niche in the realm of on-demand food, where UberEATS also operates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Waze is going to help you get your coffee, donuts and breakfast food constructions faster, with a new “Order Ahead” feature that lets you do exactly that: order Dunkin’ Donuts food ahead of time to pick up when you get to the restaurant. Dunkin’ calls itself the “first partner” for this Waze endeavor, meaning it’s likely to team up with other food… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/img><\/a>
<\/img><\/a>
<\/img><\/a>
<\/img><\/a>
<\/img><\/a>
<\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59,66,26],"class_list":["post-337027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-media","tag-techcrunch","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}