Reef Cheers Renewal of Miami Policy for Mobile Units
As Reef and other ghost kitchen operators have learned, municipal approval is a lynchpin vital to the present and future of the category. Last week, commissioners in its hometown of Miami unanimously renewed an ordinance created to regulate app-based delivery and...
Uber, BP Form Global Convenience Partnership
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the global delivery and ride-sharing giant’s first global convenience store partnership with BP. Over the next three years, the two companies aim to have more than 3,000 retail locations available for delivery on Uber in Australia,...
Instacart Slashes Valuation with Employees Top of Mind
Instacart made some finance news when it voluntarily slashed its valuation by almost 40 percent, from nearly $40 billion to $24 billion. That seems quite bad at first blush, but the valuation dip offers a window into the mismatch between venture capital valuations and...
SJW Robotics Co-Founder ‘Everything I Know is Wrong’
There are plenty of adages that remind us what we know today may not apply tomorrow. That’s true in restaurant technology and especially restaurant robotics, as SJW founder and CEO Nipun Sharma has learned. Before becoming an investor and mentor, his whole...
Lunchbox Moves into Digital Restaurant Passports, VR Virtual Restaurants
In the wake of a recent $50 million Series B, Lunchbox’s loud-and-proud co-founder and CEO, Nabeel Alamgir, is pushing to diversify the restaurant tech brand beyond its roots of online ordering, delivery integrations and multi-channel marketing. Flush with cash and on...
Outstanding Operators
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