by Nicholas Upton | Feb 12, 2018 | Automation, News, Top Stories
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...
by Laura Michaels | Feb 12, 2018 | Best Practices, News, Top Stories
Convenience continues to prevail as a priority for consumers, who are also not conceding on quality and taste. This shift is pushing limited-service concepts to reconsider their approach, with some scaling back menus and others using technology as the basis for...
by Laura Michaels | Jan 11, 2018 | Best Practices, News, Third-Party Delivery
Back in November when I reported for Food On Demand about McDonald’s planned delivery expansion with UberEats, I wrote, only slightly tongue-in-cheek, that the move would allow more people to get the chain’s cheap eats without interrupting their Netflix binge. Now,...
by Tom Kaiser | Dec 5, 2017 | Best Practices, News
In the wake of food safety scandals, such as Chipotle’s, new ideas are materializing out of hindsight afterglow. To avoid risk, restaurants are putting their take-out and delivery operations under the microscope to do all they can to prevent food-borne illness...
by Laura Michaels | Dec 5, 2017 | Best Practices, News, Research
By Laura Michaels Grubhub processes 305,000 delivery orders per day, and COO Stan Chia says that number is only going to increase as consumers and restaurants alike adjust to the new normal that revolves around convenience. The COO of Grubhub, which provides...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 3, 2017 | Automation, News
By Tom Kaiser It’s here, mass-market pizzas delivered by a fully autonomous car thanks to a home-state partnership between Domino’s and Ford. While it’s only up and running with one car in Ann Arbor, Michigan, it’s a significant mile marker for both the automotive and...