Grubhub Leans Into First-Party Ordering With Sauce Partnership
Grubhub, a top-three third-party food delivery platform by U.S. market share, is cozying up with first-party channels through a partnership with direct ordering, retention and commission-free delivery platform Sauce. The partnership adds Miami-based Sauce as a tech...
Walmart and Wing Add Seattle and Denver to 2027 Expansion Plans
Wing added Denver and Seattle to the list of metro areas set to receive autonomous aerial delivery in 2027 through a partnership with Walmart, building on what was already slated to be a year of scaling for the Alphabet-owned drone delivery company. Wing announced...
Off-Prem-Focused AI Agent Startup Raises $4M
Kutlerri.ai, a Houston-based artificial intelligence startup offering a lineup of off-premises-focused agents alongside other AI assistants tailored for restaurant management use cases, secured a $4 million funding round aimed at fueling expansion. The round will...
Input Pressures, Shifting Demand Shape Catering Industry
A flood of simultaneous input cost pressures has persisted throughout 2026 and has not fully receded, shaping the United States catering landscape amid shifting demand across market segments, according to VantaInsights market research updated September 9. The...
DoorDash Taps Circana to Measure CPG Ad Impact
DoorDash and market research firm Circana announced a partnership in early September aimed at giving consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands an independent measure of how their DoorDash ads affect consumers’ purchasing behavior. Lindsay Pullins, senior vice president of...
Outstanding Operators
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