by Tom Kaiser | Oct 31, 2019 | Briefs, News, Third-Party Delivery
Lyft and &pizza, the tech-savvy fast-casual East Coat pizza brand, announced a new partnership to bring &pizza employees in Washington, D.C. a reliable late-night transit option. This isn’t exactly news in the off-premises world, but is another step forward in...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 24, 2019 | Finance, News, Third-Party Delivery
In the wake of WeWork’s near implosion and fresh memories of Uber’s $5.2 billion quarterly loss earlier this year, a range of business pubs are claiming that the era of growth-before-profits companies is coming to an end, including third-party restaurant delivery...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 24, 2019 | Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
It was October of 2017 when DoorDash first announced plans to open DoorDash-branded delivery-only ghost kitchens, and two years later its first example has opened in Redwood City, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The facility’s first restaurant tenants...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 24, 2019 | Best Practices, Briefs, Third-Party Delivery
Another week brings yet another example of a third-party delivery company partnering with a restaurant to launch a new virtual restaurant. This latest is New York City-based Just Salad partnering with Grubhub to launch Health Tribes, a digital-only concept that...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 17, 2019 | Automation, Best Practices, Top Stories
An atypical California-based pizza brand is diversifying itself beyond delivering pizzas into developing mobile delivery kitchens and new packaging to reduce the environmental impact of meal delivery. Originally started as a pizza restaurant that pivoted into mobile...