by Tom Kaiser | Nov 11, 2020 | Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
With thousands of new delivery-only restaurants opening in the coming year, a range of opposing business plans are raking in a deluge of investment funds, bringing virtual concepts into existing restaurants and purpose-built ghost kitchen spaces. Whichever model...
by Tom Kaiser | Nov 11, 2020 | Finance, News, Top Stories
As the founder of Ordermark and its Nextbite virtual restaurant platform, Alex Canter has become one of the biggest names in the delivery space. Now that SoftBank has invested $120 million in his vision, Canter’s stature is expanding on expectations that one of its...
by Tom Kaiser | Nov 9, 2020 | COVID-19, News, Third-Party Delivery
With so many restaurants doing delivery for the first time because of the pandemic or earlier adopters updating their delivery programs in recent months, the energy is shifting from the must-haves to nice-to-haves in the mold of delivery pioneers like Domino’s or...
by Tom Kaiser | Nov 5, 2020 | News, Third-Party Delivery
Phase Change Solutions, a manufacturer of green building materials and the company behind the Domino’s HeatWave bags, says the technology to improve restaurant delivery is fired up and ready to go, if only the third-party delivery providers would spring for the...
by Tom Kaiser | Nov 4, 2020 | COVID-19, Finance, News
Famous Toastery, a full-service breakfast franchise with nearly 30 locations, is testing self-delivery and restarting its franchising program after the shock of COVID-19 pushed the North Carolina-based company to roll out online ordering over the course of four...