Cooking up a deal: DoorDash’s Europe push is fraught with challenges

DoorDash and Uber Eats are shopping in Europe this summer. While the latter enjoys a sizeable presence on the continent, the former is a relatively new arrival on European shores. Both have signed deals in the food delivery space, which has seen consolidation since the highs of the Covid pandemic.US-based DoorDash has announced a $3.9 billion deal to acquire UK-based Deliveroo, its first major move in Europe. It had purchased Finnish food and grocery delivery platform Wolt in 2022, but that did nothing in the sense of expanding DoorDash’s global…