by Tom Kaiser | Feb 3, 2022 | News, Top Stories
Billing itself as a virtual food hall that delivers, Unfurl Cuisine is a 3-unit operation in the increasingly murky area between ghost kitchens and food halls. Unfurl builds kitchens with spaces for up to 20 brands in one location where its own employees cook the...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 3, 2022 | Briefs, Finance, News
Lunchbox closed a $50 million Series B investment that will allow the New York-based platform offering online ordering, integrations and marketing for restaurants and ghost kitchens to accelerate its research and development efforts. The eight-figure investment round...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 3, 2022 | Briefs, News
Sharebite, a mission-driven food ordering platform built for workplaces, announced a partnership with Vornado Realty Trust, New York City’s leading office landlord. Through this deal, Sharebite will become the exclusive office meal solution providing group orders for...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 3, 2022 | Briefs, News
As the virtual restaurant category continues growing across the board, Florida-based virtual restaurant provider, The Local Culinary, is planning to expand outside of the United States. “We saw amazing growth in 2021 thanks to our model,” said company founder Alp...
by Arthur Robert | Feb 3, 2022 | News
Instacart is rolling out a “Ready Meals” hub, giving ready-to-eat food new prominence on the firm’s grocery marketplace. The company is pushing the hub as a “break-up with takeout,” claiming prepared food from grocery stores may be a cheaper and healthier alternative...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 3, 2022 | Briefs, News
Apex Order Pickup Solutions and Tacit Corporation announced a new software integration to combine Apex’s smart food locker technology with Tacit’s digital ordering and processing for mobile apps, web, kiosks and digital room service. The newly integrated solutions are...