by Tom Kaiser | Mar 10, 2021 | Automation, News
Albertsons Companies has partnered with Tortoise, an automated logistics company focused on last-mile solutions, to pilot its remote-controlled, zero-emission delivery cart in Northern California. “Our team is obsessed with trying new and disruptive technologies that...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 10, 2021 | Automation, News
Dragontail Systems, a restaurant technology and software provider, has teamed up with Valqari, a Chicago-based drone delivery startup, to use autonomous drones to drop orders at remote landing zones. The partnership is working towards enabling complete contactless...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 10, 2021 | News
Point-of-sale provider ParTech has added functionality for Lunchbox, a fast-growing provider of restaurant delivery integration and marketing software, into its Brink POS platform. Lunchbox features a variety of digital solutions designed to empower restaurants to...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 4, 2021 | Best Practices, COVID-19, Meal Kits, News, Top Stories
Michael Kudrna, owner of Frato’s Culinary Kitchen in suburban Chicago, isn’t just experimenting with direct sales and virtual concepts to survive the pandemic. He’s also working with culinary students to provide real-world experience that’s not part of most culinary...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 4, 2021 | Briefs, News, Third-Party Delivery
Less than three months after Uber finalized its deal to acquire Postmates, the combined entity is spinning off Postmates’ robotics division as an independent company, now called Serve Robotics. Along with that announcement came word that Serve Robotics closed its...