AI Integrations Emerges as Summer Defining Trend for Square
Summer 2026 is shaping up to be a season defined by artificial-intelligence-centered initiatives and partnerships for Square, a California-based restaurant technology platform with more than 450,000 food and beverage business partners. Square announced a ChatGPT app...
Church’s Texas Chicken Debuts Catering Across U.S.
Church’s Texas Chicken is the latest restaurant chain to launch catering, introducing the service across its U.S. restaurants for the first time. The Atlanta-based chicken chain, which operates nearly 900 U.S. restaurants, announced the launch of Church’s...
Warehouse Robots Open Revenue Opportunities for HelloFresh, Meal Kit Industry
Just under a year since launching an initial pilot program with HelloFresh Group, Massachusetts-based Locus Robotics announced June 23 that a hardware modification developed for the meal kit and prepared-meal delivery company enabled a fivefold expansion in chilled...
DoorDash Bets on Auto Parts Delivery, Uber Adds Major Retail Partners
DoorDash and Uber Eats, the two largest third-party food delivery platforms in the U.S., both announced partnerships outside of the food-and-beverage space June 24, showcasing different approaches to expanding their non-food delivery mix. DoorDash announced that its...
7 Brew Tops Yelp’s Fastest-Growing Brands as Personalization Drives Demand
Personalization is becoming one of the biggest drivers of restaurant growth, according to Yelp’s 2026 Fastest Growing Brands report, which named drive-thru coffee chain 7 Brew America’s fastest-growing brand. Yelp’s third annual Fastest Growing...
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.