{"id":374302,"date":"2026-07-15T17:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374302\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:57:09","slug":"texas-roadhouse-is-testing-delivery-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374302\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Roadhouse is testing delivery, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could Texas Roadhouse\u2019s long-held opposition to delivery be coming to an end?<\/p>\n

The steakhouse giant is testing first-party delivery at \u201ca few\u201d locations, according to a report Wednesday from Deutsche Bank.<\/p>\n

The restaurants testing delivery are in different areas, including urban, suburban, and tourist locales. The report noted that these restaurants are distinct from the select Roadhouses that already offered delivery in dense urban markets like New Rochelle, New York.<\/p>\n

In the test stores, delivery is available via Texas Roadhouse\u2019s website, with orders apparently being fulfilled by DoorDash, according to Deutsche Bank.<\/p>\n

Delivery prices are the same as in-store, plus a $5.50 delivery fee and tip that goes to the delivery service\/courier.<\/p>\n

Texas Roadhouse had not responded to a request for comment as of publication time.<\/p>\n

Louisville-based Texas Roadhouse has long resisted delivery. Late founder and former CEO Kent Taylor famously encouraged competitors to do as much delivery as they can so they can deliver lukewarm food to customers. Today, it is one of the very few large restaurant brands that does not offer delivery of any kind.<\/p>\n

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In part, the company has not needed it. It has been one of the fastest-growing chains in the country in recent years, riding a wave of steak demand to become the nation\u2019s largest casual-dining chain by sales last year.<\/p>\n

That has not stopped analysts from regularly asking executives whether and when Texas Roadhouse will offer delivery as demand for the service continues to boom. In February, CEO Jerry Morgan said the company was not looking at adding delivery at that time.<\/p>\n

Deutsche Bank said that the test will likely lead to a broader rollout, but it does not expect Roadhouse to launch delivery nationwide anytime soon, given its healthy growth of late. Over the past four quarters, Texas Roadhouse has averaged same-store sales growth of 5.8%, including a 7.1% mark in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

But delivery could provide a new source of incremental sales in the future. Customers are clearly interested in eating their steak and potatoes at home: Texas Roadhouse\u2019s to-go business has been growing faster than dine-in, accounting for 14.6% of weekly sales last quarter, or more than $25,000 per store, the most since the pandemic.<\/p>\n

And the chain has already laid the groundwork for more off-premise business with the transition to a \u201cdigital kitchen\u201d that is designed to help streamline to-go orders.<\/p>\n

Notably, Texas Roadhouse\u2019s sister concepts Bubba\u2019s 33 and Jaggers do offer delivery.<\/p>\n

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It would be the biggest chain to end its delivery holdout since Olive Garden, which began offering it via a white-label partnership with Uber Eats in late 2024. Since then, delivery has made up a small but growing share of sales for the chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could Texas Roadhouse\u2019s long-held opposition to delivery be coming to an end? The steakhouse giant is testing first-party…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-374302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}