Uber Eats Adds Instagram, Merchant Stories Features
Uber Eats is giving restaurants new, more visual ways to connect with hunger-strolling customers with a direct Instagram integration and a new Merchant Stories feature that allows merchants to share announcements, special promotions and other updates. Both are...
Saladworks Inks Deal with Ghost Kitchen Brands, Walmart
In a landmark deal that will nearly double the brand’s footprint with 60 kitchens in the United States and 30 in Canada, fast-casual franchise Saladworks is partnering with Ghost Kitchen Brands to open in dozens of non-traditional locations by the end of 2021, many of...
Squarespace Acquires Tock
Tock, the restaurant reservation platform that moved into carryout and events, has been acquired by website and ecommerce platform Squarespace in a $400 million mix of cash and stock. Squarespace said bringing Tock under its umbrella will enable its customers to...
Postmates Spins off Serve Robotics
Less than three months after Uber finalized its deal to acquire Postmates, the combined entity is spinning off Postmates’ robotics division as an independent company, now called Serve Robotics. Along with that announcement came word that Serve Robotics closed its...
Uber to Acquire Alcohol Delivery Brand Drizly
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi wasn’t kidding when he’s recently said ride-sharing will be a comparatively smaller part of the company’s future than it was before the pandemic. Now Uber is bringing alcohol delivery into the fold with the announcement of an agreement...
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