by Tom Kaiser | May 22, 2019 | Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Ford Motor Company is partnering with a robot manufacturer to pair its self-driving cars with advanced, humanlike robots to bring packages right to the front door of anxiously waiting customers. Its new partnership with Agility Robotics is focused on new ways of...
by Tom Kaiser | May 22, 2019 | Best Practices, News, Research
If you’re Uber, Grubhub or DoorDash directing a huge fleet of delivery drivers or a restaurant with a lean-and-mean in-house delivery team, you have a vested interest in making sure your drivers are as safe as possible. Whether it’s causing an accident or just being a...
by Tom Kaiser | May 22, 2019 | News
Summing up its recent restaurant technology symposium that included 15 restaurant technology companies and investors, Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analysts Nicole Miller Regan and Joshua Long looked at accelerating changes in the $1.6 trillion U.S. food market that’s...
by Nicholas Upton | May 22, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
Last week, research firm AlixPartners put out an interesting look on where the delivery world goes next, and one key part of the next delivery phase looks like it may be coming fast. According to that survey, the U.S. delivery market is in the middle of “Wave 2,”...
by Nicholas Upton | May 22, 2019 | Briefs, News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
Bite Squad, now a subsidiary of Waitr, released data around what people order during the summer months. In a list predicting this summer’s fastest-growing delivery items, the company pointed to high-growth items seen last summer between June 1 and August 31. This...