by Nicholas Upton | Apr 16, 2019 | Best Practices, Third-Party Delivery
Not a company to focus purely on something as minor as an IPO, Uber is rolling out a voucher program while the company prepares to go public. The voucher program (demonstrated to the right) plays on the core ridesharing in a novel way by allowing businesses to offer...
by Nicholas Upton | Mar 27, 2019 | Automation, News
A herd of robots have been delivering food around Virginia’s George Mason University since January and robot manufacturer Starship is ready to release some insights from the test. According to a release from the company, the 25,000-person test showed that convenient...
by Nicholas Upton | Mar 20, 2019 | Best Practices, News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Checkers and Rally’s is taking on delivery in a big way, going all in with every provider it can get and maybe changing the delivery game along the way. Checkers has around 900 locations, with about 300 of those corporate locations. So it’s not as large as the big QSR...
by Nicholas Upton | Mar 13, 2019 | Automation, News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
Eatsa, a technology provider in the restaurant space known for its novel “automat-like” digital cubbies for food pickup, has moved into the virtual restaurant space. In a partnership with Deliveroo, a UK-based food delivery company, the firm will now power a virtual...
by Nicholas Upton | Mar 6, 2019 | Finance, News
Kitchen United had some big, aggressive goals. Last year, Founder and CEO Jim Collins laid out the path to 15 locations open or under way by the end of 2019. It’s the hallmark in the restaurant industry to over-promise and hope everyone forgets about it, but given a...