by Tom Kaiser | Oct 9, 2020 | COVID-19, News
It’s not every day a 19-year-old starts a franchise restaurant. It’s similarly uncommon for a new restaurant brand’s first franchisees to find themselves building their first stores just as the pandemic began to shut down the world around them. For Florida-based Bahia...
by Nicholas Upton | Oct 9, 2020 | News
ShiftPixy has been working toward a hybrid native-gig delivery model for some time now, but a big new partnership gets the staffing platform one step closer. The company’s overall aim is to bring efficiency to the part-time labor market by taking over the overhead of...
by Nicholas Upton | Oct 9, 2020 | Finance, News
The shareholders of Just Eat Takeaway.com (Just Eat) have formally approved the monster acquisition of Grubhub that would deliver the company a U.S. foothold. The shareholder vote approved much of the $6.9 billion proposal. Grubhub’s founder and CEO Matt Maloney will...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 1, 2020 | Finance, News
If online banking now has a social media function to see which of your friends are sending money to each other, why shouldn’t meal ordering join the party? That’s the basic concept at Snackpass, a three-year-old app designed by Yale students that helps fellow students...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 1, 2020 | News, Research
As once-temporary pandemic habits become set in stone, Mercatus has released an update on what it calls the “egrocery” market, looking at what factors are impacting online grocery shopper loyalty and what features are becoming most important to shoppers who are now...
by Nicholas Upton | Oct 1, 2020 | Best Practices, News, Top Stories
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype around ghost kitchens and virtual brands, the sexy new channels taking up a huge amount of air in the restaurant industry right now. As the hype train chugs along, operators like Capriotti’s, a Las Vegas-based sandwich shop known...