A hungry Torontonian once placed an Uber Eats order for more than $6,000 worth of burgers and fries, making it the costliest delivery seen in Canada since the app’s inception a decade ago.
Uber Eats Canada could not say what restaurant this order was made from or when exactly it was made. However, their 2025 Cravings Report, published Thursday, offered a look at the way Torontonians (and Canadians) have ordered food over the last 10 years.
The app first launched in Toronto, making it the inaugural city worldwide to get meals couriered right to their doors with this particular food delivery service. It started with 80 to 100 restaurants, and now more than 400 Canadian cities and over 50,000 merchants are on the app.
Toronto was selected as the testing grounds because, as general manager Lola Kassim puts it, Toronto had the reputation that if it works here, it’ll likely work anywhere.
“If we think specifically about Uber Eats, we’re a very big, cosmopolitan city with a really strong restaurant culture, lots of eaters or consumers who are willing to try new things, and we also had a highly engaged base of people who are willing to be delivery people,” Kassim said in an interview. “So, the combination of all these things made Toronto a really great testing route and launchpad, really, for this product.”
When Uber Eats first started, it was purely a food delivery platform, but over the years it has expanded its marketplace to courier items like flowers, cannabis, groceries, clothing and personal care items, among other things.
Some Torontonians have taken advantage of that in some of the most unique ways, including ordering glue glitter sticks, a plush emoji pillow, Bermuda shorts and a wild grass bush. Across Canada, though, one user ordered a space cowgirl Halloween costume to their door, another a monogram dragon ornament, and one couriered a disco ball.
“What’s exciting for us about that is that as much as we may think these are unique items, these are items that people are looking for,” Kassim said. “I think, as we go forward, what you’re going to see is us continue trying to be that place where you can get almost anything.”
Torontonians’ top eats
In the last 10 years, Uber Eats Canada says Torontonians have ordered seven million bananas, 28 million orders of fries, and 30 million burgers.
There were also plenty of cravings for classic Canadian foods—poutine, ketchup chips, Nanaimo bars, Caesars and butter tarts—with about eight million orders made over that same period of time.
The food choices of Torontonians have changed significantly over the last decade, according to Uber Eats Canada’s findings.
Back in 2016, the most popular orders contained burgers, tacos or pad thai, whereas now diners are opting for burrito bowls, chicken and rice, or bagels. As for what was most often ordered on the side, Torontonians are now opting for garlic dipping sauce first, then hash browns and fries, but back then fries clinched the top choice before gravy and spring rolls were added on to orders.
The kind of cuisine Torontonians liked opting for has remained the same over the last decade, with Asian food being the top choice. But the other top choices have shifted a bit within this time.
In 2016, the second most ordered cuisine was Indian, followed by Chinese, but in 2025, American and Canadian food have moved up the list.
While Toronto did not crack the top 10 list of the most generous tipping cities in the last 10 years, it was named one of the politest, as more Torontonians are more likely to say “please” and “thank you” on their orders.
