Typically you get free lunch on the job — and typically you need to go away the job the place you assist everybody else get lunch.

Adam DeWitt, who turned CEO of Grubhub in June 2021, will step down by Might 2023, the meals supply service’s dad or mum firm, Simply Eat Takeaway (JET) introduced on Monday.

He shall be changed by Howard Migdal, who leads JET’s Canadian subsidiary, SkipTheDishes, which is an internet meals supply service within the nation.

“Below DeWitt’s management for the previous 11 years as CFO, President, and most just lately CEO, Grubhub has grown from $20 million to greater than $2 billion in annual revenues,” JET wrote within the press launch.

DeWitt mentioned within the assertion he’d been on the firm for 11 years. His bio mentioned he helped Grubhub get by way of its IPO, which was accomplished in 2014. The co-founder of Grubhub, Mike Evans, recounted the lengthy street Grubhub confronted in going public, which included a merger with competitor Seamless, in his memoir “Hangry: A Startup Journey” in November.

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However his tenure as CEO was comparatively quick. He took the reins because the Grubhub buy by JET was finalized, changing co-founder Matt Maloney, who then joined the corporate’s board. Maloney left the corporate altogether a number of months later, in October 2021. Maloney had been with the corporate since its inception within the early 2000s.

JET introduced in June 2020 that it agreed to purchase the meals supply firm for over $7 billion, on the top of the pandemic and ordering-out craze. It capped a “tumultuous” interval for the corporate that included an almost-acquisition from Uber Eats, TechCrunch wrote on the time.

The mixed firm would serve over 70 million clients across the globe, JET mentioned then.

Nevertheless, whereas meals supply providers are a profitable idea for patrons, it is a aggressive enterprise that may require excessive spending to accumulate new clients (assume issues like advertising and adverts), per TechCrunch.

In April 2022, JET introduced in it deliberate to dump the meals supply large, per Insider. JET mentioned it was “actively exploring the introduction of a strategic associate into and/or the partial or full sale of Grubhub,” on the time.

JET is the results of a merger between UK-based Simply Eat and the Netherlands-based Takeaway.