Tan had envisioned Burma Bites as a way to help support the busy Burma Superstar kitchen. Owner Desmond Tan sees Burma Bites as a way to ensure the longevity of a business that now includes seven Bay Area Burmese restaurants.īurma Bites will deliver food in bags advertising the partnership with DoorDash and specifically designed to accommodate the to-go containers. The location, dubbed DoorDash Kitchens, has been occupied by Bay Area companies like Nation’s Giant Hamburgers, Humphry Slocombe, Rooster & Rice and the Halal Guys.īurma Bites was originally set to open in March, down the street from Burma Superstar on Telegraph Avenue, but the debut was delayed by the pandemic. While Burma Bites is the first DoorDash investment in a standalone space for one restaurant, the company opened a commissary kitchen in Redwood City in 2019. It has since become one of the largest delivery apps in the Bay Area. “We set out to take the authenticity and uniqueness of the Burma Superstar dine-in experience, and the success they’ve seen with delivery from their other locations, and build a more permanent delivery model for their business.”ĭoorDash was founded as Palo Alto Delivery in 2013, when it started delivering food around the Stanford campus. “Burma Bites is an example of working alongside a restaurant to find new ways for our partnerships to adapt to the new normal,” Thomas said. Thomas said investing in Burma Bites is a way for the company to take its mission of increasing delivery sales for restaurants during the pandemic one step further. DoorDash declined to specify how much money it is investing in Burma Bites, but Georgie Thomas, head of regional merchant partnerships at the San Francisco delivery company, said in an email that COVID-19 “has accelerated the need for merchants” to establish their online presence in the Bay Area.

Burma Superstar by Desmond Tan