NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GrubHub (GrubHub.com), a web and mobile service that connects diners to restaurants and simplifies online ordering for delivery and pickup, has partnered with Next Jump (nextjump.com), the company behind the new online shopping and rewards destination OO.comTM (oo.com) and employee rewards programs serving more than 100 million customers. GrubHub will soon be integrated into OO.com and the Next Jump platform, allowing people who place orders through Next Jump sites to accrue WOWPointsTM worth real money. In addition, existing WOWPoints can be used toward food orders at any of the 4,000+ restaurants in GrubHub’s network. The deal was announced today by the two companies, and terms were not disclosed.
“Partnering with Next Jump was a natural fit for us,” said Matt Maloney, GrubHub co-Founder and CEO. "Their distribution channel reaches millions of consumers. And through our partnership, Next Jump users will be able to utilize their rewards points to tap into GrubHub’s extensive restaurant network for their online food ordering needs.”
“To round-out our vast offerings, we were looking for a partnership that could connect our users to a variety of restaurants, and GrubHub fit the bill,” said Charlie Kim, CEO and Founder of Next Jump. “They have an excellent service that is remarkably easy to use, and their engineering culture is right in line with our own commitment to the speed and quality of technological innovation. There’s no doubt that our millions of customers will be thrilled to have the opportunity to use the WOWPoints currency for yet another every-day activity like ordering their meals online."
Next Jump’s loyalty and rewards program is currently in place with more than 90,000 networks. In addition to MasterCard MarketPlaceTM, Hilton HHonors® and AARP member database, Next Jump's offerings are available to the majority of Fortune 1000 employee networks for a total reach of more than 100 million eligible users. The company recently launched its first consumer site, OO.com.
About Next Jump
With one of the largest Internet engineering teams on the east coast, Next Jump has quietly created a world class, next generation shopping platform adopted by MasterCard and most Fortune 1000 companies. The recently launched OO.com, with valuable, proprietary WOWPoints™ for every transaction, is the company’s first consumer shopping site. Next Jump’s eco-system of blue-chip brands and high-value shoppers have made it the loyalty and rewards program of choice for Dell, Borders and Hilton Hotels, and numerous others, as well as similar programs for membership organizations like AARP. Next Jump was founded by Charlie Kim, CEO and is based in New York City. For more information: www.nextjump.com.
About GrubHub
GrubHub is a ventured-back company founded in 2004 by Chicago-based software engineers Matt Maloney and Mike Evans. Frustrated by the lack of delivery information available on the Internet, they created the online service to organize delivery information. Visitors to the site type in their address on GrubHub.com, and the page will display every local restaurant that delivers to them, with the restaurants' menus, hours for delivery, available coupons and reviews. The rapidly growing company works with over 4,000 restaurants for online ordering and shows menus from over 13,000 restaurants in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Boulder, Denver, Washington D.C. and Oakland. For more information visit www.GrubHub.com.