by Nicholas Upton | Jan 7, 2021 | Automation, News
Walmart is expanding a test with automated truck startup Gatik and will remove safety drivers for fully autonomous, human-free deliveries. Gatik’s autonomous trucks will be heading to Louisiana for an expansion to a second market with Walmart. The partnership...
by Nicholas Upton | Dec 21, 2020 | News, Third-Party Delivery
The National Restaurant Association (NRA) and a group of third-party delivery providers came together on seven principles when it comes to public policy. While restaurants and third-party delivery have some natural tension in the relationship, they could agree on...
by Nicholas Upton | Dec 21, 2020 | Best Practices, COVID-19, News
With fewer big company catering orders between here and who knows when, ZeroCater is rolling out a new product for scalable catering. ZeroCater, a business-to-business catering company that aims to enhance company food programs with an AI food-recommendation engine,...
by Nicholas Upton | Dec 16, 2020 | Finance, News
Billed as an “on-demand craft food marketplace,” WoodSpoon has raised $2 million in seed funding to expand its operations. The company, which we profiled back in July, essentially connects customers to home chefs. It started because the two Israel-born...
by Nicholas Upton | Dec 16, 2020 | News, Third-Party Delivery
The new partnership between Jimmy John’s and DoorDash demonstrates that even with a “freaky fast” in-house delivery fleet that’s not going anywhere, there is immense power in the platform marketplace. Jimmy John’s and DoorDash announced the two...