Jokr Lands $170M to Scale Instant Delivery Platform
Move over ghost kitchens and virtual restaurants: instant delivery platforms are officially the hottest corner of the delivery space with New York-based startup, Jokr, announcing a $170 million Series A round to grow the grocery and retail delivery provider. The...
Starbird Flies High with Four Successful Virtual Concepts
After soaring through the pandemic, Starbird has dramatically scaled up its small footprint and grown same-store sales 36 percent during the first half of 2021 as it begins to franchise the upscale fast-food brick-and-mortar brand, which also includes four successful...
Grubhub Rolls Out On-Time Guarantee
Grubhub is promising its customers their orders will arrive on time and that its prices will be the lowest relative to its competitors through the Grubhub Guarantee, a new feature the company says is the result of asking its customers what matters most when choosing a...
ShiftPixy Building Ghost Kitchen Incubator, VR Concepts
For ShiftPixy, a gig economy platform that diversified into helping restaurants build their own native ordering platforms, ghost kitchens and virtual restaurants are too big of an opportunity to ignore. The company is launching a ghost kitchen incubator to test its...
Outstanding Operators
Food On Demand Outstanding Operators features restaurant brands with innovative operations that are taking creative paths to success with delivery and all things off-premises.