by Tom Kaiser | Mar 3, 2022 | Automation, Briefs, News, Top Stories
Starship Technologies is on a triumphant roll as the delivery robot provider announces raising $100 million in the last 30 days, including its most recent $42 million Series B funding round. Together, these funds will help Starship further scale its autonomous drone...
by Nicholas Upton | Mar 3, 2022 | Best Practices, Finance, News
Olo has a tendency to announce new moves during the company earnings calls, and Olo’s fourth quarter and full-year 2021 earnings came with two interesting announcements. The company announced it would acquire digital integration company Omnivore and said it...
by Nicholas Upton | Mar 3, 2022 | Best Practices, News
As diners return to indoor dining they’re bringing with their newfound desire for the digital restaurant. Similarly, operators who embraced digital with a sliver of desperation early on have seen the value and are now eagerly bringing new digital tools inside....
by Arthur Robert | Mar 3, 2022 | News
When COVID-19 hit, it was clear that things in the restaurant industry were going to change. Many of those changes, such as the rise of delivery, were obvious. But other changes and their knock-on effects would have been harder to predict. “I never thought I’d see the...
by Nicholas Upton | Feb 24, 2022 | Finance, News
Enterprise digital order logistics firm Olo (NYSE: OLO) announced it would acquire Omnivore, a platform that allows restaurants to plug in a huge variety of technologies into their point of sale. The announcement came midway through Olo’s fourth-quarter earnings...
by Tom Kaiser | Feb 24, 2022 | News, Third-Party Delivery
Grubhub is going deeper into the grocery category through a new partnership with Buyk, the New York-based grocery service promising deliveries within 15 minutes. Through the new deal, Buyk groceries will be available on the Grubhub marketplace in more than 30 initial...