Matternet CEO Gives Bird’s-Eye View of Aggressive Scaling Strategy
After nearly 15 years of developing aircraft and delivery infrastructure, California-based drone delivery platform Matternet is finally ready to take off. That’s the assessment of CEO Andreas Raptopoulos, who says the company is positioned to scale significantly...
Starbucks Pulls Back AI Inventory Counting Tool
Starbucks has stepped away from an AI-powered inventory counting tool that automated product counts in its stores, as first reported by Reuters. The technology combines computer vision and 3D spatial intelligence to scan items like milk, syrups and other beverage...
Will Delivery Benefit from the World Cup?
Contributing editor, Peter Backman, is a long-term foodservice sector guru and founder of theDelivery.World, a platform that connects the delivery sector and makes sense of the myriad changes and challenges that affect the sector across the globe. Does delivery...
Uber Increases Delivery Hero Stake as Global Consolidation Continues
Uber has increased its stake in Delivery Hero, becoming the German food delivery company’s largest shareholder as consolidation continues across the global delivery sector. Delivery Hero posted on its website that Uber now owns about 19.5 percent of its issued...
Why Kalei’s Kitchenette Said No to 3PD
After five years spent building a customer base through catering and vending at farmers markets, co-founders Andy and Khara Mangiduyos opened the first and still only brick-and-mortar location of Kalei’s Kitchenette in 2023, a 1,200-square-foot Hawaiian-style eatery...
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.