Fast food trends in 2026: what people in France order for delivery

What do people in France order most for delivery?

In 2025, the burger took the top spot among the most ordered dishes on Uber Eats in France, ahead of pizza and sushi. Kebab, joint first with tacos in 2024, falls to 4th place.

Here is the ranking published by Uber Eats on 16 December 2025, based on the orders placed in the app in 2025:

Deliveroo publishes a different ranking: the dishes whose popularity grew the most in the app, the Deliveroo 100. In France, the lobster rolls from Homer Lobster, in Paris, came first in the 2025 edition. In 2024, it was Bouillon Service’s saucisse au couteau (hand-cut sausage) with mash.

Which trends are rising in 2026?

Five trends stand out from the two platforms’ round-ups. Be careful: many of Uber Eats’ figures are about searches in the app, not sales.

Fried chicken and crousty

Fried chicken is 7th in the Uber Eats ranking. On Deliveroo, two crousty dishes, those trays of rice and breaded chicken, are in the 2025 top 50 for France, in 9th and 50th place. On Uber Eats, crousty orders jumped by 323% between January 2025 and January 2026, according to an AFP report.

Chicken also did well during the 2026 World Cup. According to Deliveroo data cited by JDS, chicken orders rose by up to more than 40% during the tournament. If the idea tempts you, read our guide to opening a crousty restaurant or adding it to your menu.

Flan

Uber Eats presents flan, the French baked custard, as “the new star of desserts” (translated from French). At the end of 2025, searches for flan in the app rose by 53%. The number of restaurants, coffee shops and bakeries that added it to their menu rose by 22%.

In the selection by Gault&Millau for Paris and its inner suburbs, published in June 2026, a slice costs from €3.20, in Courbevoie, to €9. For a restaurant serving hot dishes, it is a dessert that can be prepared in advance and increases the value of the order.

Spicy food

Searches for “spicy” rose by 12% on Uber Eats in 2025. Spicy burgers show a 29% increase, spicy noodles 21%. A spicy version of your best seller is still the cheapest test.

Viennoiseries

Searches for viennoiseries (croissants and similar pastries) rose by 23.5% on Uber Eats at the end of 2025. For a restaurant open in the morning, it is a slot worth looking at.

Ordering for one

On Uber Eats, more than one order in five is now placed for a single person. A well-designed solo meal deal, with a main, a drink and a dessert, meets this demand.

Which trends fade quickly?

Trends launched on social media can drop as fast as they rose. At the end of 2024, searches for pistachio chocolate bars had increased by 220% in six months on Uber Eats, according to its 2024 round-up. The same year, “Cannot Get Knafeh of It”, a creation by the chocolatier Fix, in Dubai, topped Deliveroo’s global ranking.

Uber Eats itself is turning the page on hybrid creations: according to its 2025 round-up, “after the era of hybrid creations (crookies, cruffins or NYC rolls), the breakfast icon is back in the spotlight” (translated from French).

Also be wary of spectacular percentages. Searches for fermented products rose by 1,899% on Uber Eats in 2025, driven by kombucha. Such a figure often starts from a small number of searches: check the real demand in your area before filling your menu with them.

Outside France, Deliveroo notes that the smash burger trend, “already well established” (translated from French), stood out in 2025, and presents matcha as the drink of the year. These two findings are about the whole world, not about France.

How do you make the most of a trend without getting it wrong?

A national trend says nothing about your street. Before changing your menu, check that it exists among your customers.

1. Search for the dish on Uber Eats and Deliveroo with a regular customer’s address. Count the restaurants that sell it and note their prices: that is our method to analyse your competitors’ prices.
2. Test a single product, on your current menu or under a virtual brand.
3. Set its price based on your real margin, commission included, with our guide to setting your prices.
4. Set yourself a review in four weeks: sales, reviews, preparation time.
5. Remove the product if it slows your kitchen down mid-rush.

Deliview tracks the prices and promotions in your area on Uber Eats and Deliveroo, and shows you what has changed since the last analysis.

How big is delivery in France in 2026?

Meal delivery turnover is estimated at between 7 and 9 billion euros, according to the French trade paper L’Hôtellerie Restauration in February 2026. The paper doesn’t say where this estimate comes from.

Uber Eats says it covers more than 85% of the population and lists 55,000 merchants, 70% of them independents. According to the same article, out of 165,000 establishments counted in France, nearly 60,000 offer delivery, 35,000 of them via Deliveroo.

Deliveroo has been owned by the American company DoorDash since 2 October 2025, Deliveroo announced.