Inside Lunchbox’s ‘Hard and Heavy’ Move into Catering
The catering and workplace delivery category is heating up as Lunchbox, an online ordering and marketing provider, takes a big step into the category by hiring catering expert and MonkeyMedia founder Erle Dardick as its chief strategy officer. Dardick is one of the...
Walmart’s Drone Delivery Service Expands Wings in Dallas
Walmart is expanding sky-high deliveries in Dallas by teaming with Wing, an on-demand drone delivery provider powered by Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The aerial service is set to take flight “in the coming weeks” first from a Walmart Supercenter in Frisco,...
PepsiCo to invest $175 million in Instacart as Grocery Delivery Hub Goes Public
Instacart disclosed a major investment from PepsiCo, as the grocery delivery service made public its filing for a long-awaited stock market launch. The San Francisco-based last-mile delivery company filed a registration statement with U.S. Securities and Exchange...
Starship Delivery Robots Roll out to more Campuses with Updated Tech
As the school year approaches and students ramp up to head back to campus, so are delivery bots. Starship Technologies has announced it added additional schools to its roster, now serving 50 college campuses across the U.S Added schools include Wichita State...
FOD Interview: Kitchen United CEO Montagano Departs for Dog Haus
Kitchen United’s long-time CEO, Michael Montagano, is stepping down from the ghost kitchen pioneer and is taking the reins of Dog Haus after working together as a corporate partner and serving on the fast-growing restaurant’s board of directors for the last three...
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