UberEats is using AI to recommend restaurants and menu items, optimize deliveries

UberEats, ride-hailing company Uber's four-year-old food delivery arm, is a veritable juggernaut. It covers more than 50 percent of the U.S. population, facilitating deliveries for roughly 100,000 restaurants. And globally, it operates in 300 cities and 300 more locations around the globe. Chen Peng, head of data science at UberEats, spoke to a few of UberEats' unique advantages onstage at VentureBeat Summit 2018. "Analytics has played a critical role in driving the growth of the business," he said.