Digital Prowess Key to Playing the Delivery Game
What inning is this? That was the question brought up during a panel discussion at the fourth-annual Cowen Consumer Conference. It’s a good question, the opportunities are clear, the challenges are clear but how exactly this adoption trend fits with the overall...
Driverless Delivery Shows Promise and Sometimes Peril
A sad headline flashed across the phone right before a luncheon talk called The Autonomous Solution—a pedestrian was killed in Tucson, Arizona, by an autonomous vehicle, in what appears to be the first such death involving a driverless car. For the Postmates executive...
A Chat with Grubhub’s Stan Chia
Fresh off the announcement of its deal to deliver for YUM Brands’ Taco Bell and KFC, Stan Chia, COO of Grubhub, told the audience at the FOD Conference, that the restaurant industry is mirroring the rise of e-commerce for retail, and for the first time ever people are...
Beware the ‘Tyranny of Legacy,’ Olo’s Founder Tells Restaurateurs
Food delivery is “not some cute fad” as some restaurant CEOs would suggest. “This is a fundamental shift,” declared Noah Glass, founder and CEO of Olo, speaking at the first Food On Demand Conference in Dallas today. Olo, as many of its 95 million users know, provides...
A Miniature Walmart In Your Home
From the department of zany patents comes Walmart’s idea for a convenience store inside your own home. In a patent filed by the company with the sexy moniker of “Unattended Storefront Apparatus,” an area of the home would serve as an in-house Walmart monitored...
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.