Throughout May, Grubhub will be celebrating its largest member appreciation event of the year, Gold Days of Grubhub+, featuring over $5 million in savings across more than 10,000 member-exclusive deals, including free menu items and BOGO deals from some of the country's most popular restaurants. The first week of May, from the 1st to the 10th, members can look forward to accessing a free 3PC Tender Combo with their $20+ KFC order, and a buy-one-get-one Personal Pan Pizza with a $25+ order at Pizza Hut.
To kick off the mong-long event, Grubhub dropped a new campaign called Gold Digging Season, which positions a Grubhub+ membership as the ultimate social currency, and pokes fun at the playful reality that when you have something of value, others can't help but want a piece of it.
Why This Trend Is Growing
- Membership-first Marketing
- Exclusive, time-limited member events are redefining value exchange by turning subscriptions into primary drivers of customer acquisition and retention.
- Social-currency Positioning
- Framing memberships as desirable status signals is shifting consumer behavior toward platform affiliation as a form of social capital.
- Hyper-localized Exclusive Offers
- Large-scale campaigns that deliver curated, location-specific perks are enabling platforms to monetize local partnerships and tailor perceived value at scale.
Industries Being Reshaped
- Food-delivery Platforms
- Delivery apps bundling membership perks with merchant promotions are rewriting economics between platforms, restaurants, and consumers through volume-driven exclusive deals.
- Quick-service Restaurants
- Fast-casual chains offering member-only menu items and BOGO promotions are altering loyalty dynamics and driving incremental traffic via platform collaborations.
- Retail and Commerce Loyalty
- Retailers integrating subscription-style access to limited-time discounts and freebies are transforming traditional couponing into a recurring revenue model tied to customer engagement.
