by fodnews | Oct 8, 2021 | News, Sponsored Content
*This is content sponsored by DoorDash. There has been nothing easy about being a restaurant operator during this last year and a half. Through shutdowns, changing customer habits and relentless uncertainty, three self-made owner-operators leaned into delivery and...
by fodnews | Oct 8, 2021 | News, Sponsored Content
*This is content sponsored by Omnivore. Omnivore is alleviating the headache of testing and implementing restaurant software by opening access to its core API. CEO Dan Singer said, “the updated application programming interface (API), available through the Omnivore...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 7, 2021 | Finance, News, Top Stories
Kitchen United has acquired Zuul, the New York-based ghost kitchen and technology provider to bolster its batched-ordering support and establish a beachhead in the largest delivery market in the United States. The deal is Kitchen United’s first acquisition and,...
by Arthur Robert | Oct 7, 2021 | Best Practices, News, Third-Party Delivery
Like restaurants, grocers are struggling to find a happy medium with third-party delivery providers as more of the North American grocery market moves online. While grocery stores encourage more profitable native ordering and customer pickup, new entrants are testing...
by Arthur Robert | Oct 7, 2021 | News, Third-Party Delivery
Buyk is the fourth rapid grocery delivery company to launch in New York City in the last 12 months. As the name suggests—pronounced bike—the company’s couriers will use bicycles to deliver groceries within 15 minutes or less and will employ the same dark-store model...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 7, 2021 | Briefs, Finance, News
After recently rebranding and raising $20 million, “distributed restaurant” platform All Day Kitchens raised $65 million in a Series C round bringing its total fundraising to $102.5 million. The San Francisco-based company said the new cash is being used for R&D,...