Uber Eats has launched ‘Stay’, a brand new characteristic that lets customers order meals and drinks proper from their seats at choose occasion venues, altering the stay leisure expertise for South Africans.
When attending a stay live performance or a soccer match at any of those venues, a consumer can open the Uber Eats app, select a meal from obtainable meals stalls on the occasion venue, and have it delivered to them proper the place they’re sitting.
First examined at SunBet Area in Pretoria throughout a latest Basketball Africa League (BAL) recreation on June 13, 2025, Uber Eats hopes this new characteristic will change the way in which South Africans take pleasure in stay leisure by making it simpler to seize a chew with out lacking the motion.
Launched in South Africa in 2016, Uber Eats is now betting on the nation’s standard leisure venues—and the rising demand for meals supply—as extra individuals search for handy methods to take pleasure in stay occasions.
SunBet Area, one of many nation’s premier indoor venues, usually hosts 20 to 30 main occasions a yr. In 2025 alone, international stars like Andrea Bocelli, Sting, and Robbie Williams have graced its Pretoria stage, and it was the battleground for the Basketball Africa League (BAL) playoffs and finals—a week-long occasion.
Past SunBet, high-capacity venues similar to Cape City Stadium, FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, and Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban are additionally filled with concert events, sports activities fixtures, and cultural festivals—every representing a golden alternative for Uber Eats to embed itself deeper into the stay occasion expertise throughout South Africa.
In 2024, South Africans spent about $3.3 billion on on-line meals deliveries. This quantity is predicted to just about double to $5.99 billion by 2030, rising steadily by about 9.9% every year. Providers similar to Uber Eats and Mr. D that combination eating places and different meal choices, type the quickest rising section of this market.
“We’re proud to introduce a product that meets South Africans precisely the place they’re – on the coronary heart of tradition, group, and celebration,” says Cassie Jaganyi, Head of Communications, Uber Sub-Saharan Africa. “Uber Eats Stay is about enhancing moments, not interrupting them. It’s innovation that strikes with the gang, not in opposition to it.”
In response to Uber’s 2023 Financial Influence Report, the platform supported over 40,000 earners and contributed R17 billion (over $930 million) to the native financial system in only one yr. By creating tech-enabled alternatives like Uber Eats Stay, the platform continues to unlock new methods to drive progress and ship worth for customers, retailers, and supply riders alike.
Uber Eats claims that as South Africa’s leisure panorama evolves, they’re dedicated to evolving with it, bringing good, user-centric options to life that improve each form of expertise.
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