by Hans Lammeman | Jul 28, 2026 | News Briefs
The 2026 FIFA World Cup proved a buffet for restaurant operators, with third-party-delivery giants using promotions and celebrity marketing to lure in orders, all-time-high traffic for restaurant middleware firm Deliverect, and app activity that ebbed and flowed in...
by Hans Lammeman | Jul 28, 2026 | News Briefs
SevenRooms, a DoorDash-owned customer relationship management platform, now pulls guest third-party delivery consumer data to boost restaurants’ on-premise traffic. The practice showcases off-premise-level personalization tactics applied to drawing in reservations....
by Hans Lammeman | Jul 23, 2026 | News
Editor’s Note: This article is part of our Summer Series, where Food On Demand explores a different topic each month. July’s focus is beverages. There’s a $1.2 billion beverage-shaped gap quietly plaguing restaurant online ordering channels. Beverage incidence, or...
by Hans Lammeman | Jul 22, 2026 | News
Uber Technologies entered an agreement to acquire Delivery Hero at a value of $14.8 billion last week in a deal that unites two of the largest players in the global third-party delivery scene while bringing Uber’s mobility and delivery services to 99 total countries....
by Hans Lammeman | Jul 21, 2026 | News Briefs
With the rise of agentic ordering and AI discovery comes increased value of restaurant reviews, a common source of information for chatbots asked about foodservice operations. That trend inspired Marqii Review Generation, a tool announced July 21 from...