by Arthur Robert | Jun 17, 2021 | COVID-19, News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
What was once a pandemic necessity may be becoming habit. In a report issued by Wells Fargo, analysts including Brian Fitzgerald and Jon Tower project that delivery will hold onto its intra-pandemic market share or even grow as restaurant sales rebound during the...
by Tom Kaiser | Jun 17, 2021 | News, Top Stories
Years after delivery has dominated the conversation, restaurants are once again getting creative with non-traditional real estate opportunities, including partnering with unaffiliated brands to unlock new territories and rope in the best attributes of ghost kitchens...
by Tom Kaiser | Jun 17, 2021 | COVID-19, Meal Kits, News
Fortunes are diverging among the largest meal kit providers, Blue Apron and Hello Fresh, as the meal kit industry awaits the answer to the same question many are asking in the restaurant delivery space: what consumer habits will stick after the pandemic? Since the...
by Tom Kaiser | Jun 17, 2021 | Briefs, News
C3, a food and beverage platform bringing food halls and ghost kitchens to high-profile real estate, announced a new partnership with Chowly to become its exclusive virtual restaurant partner bringing its portfolio of 40 digital brands to the point-of-sale integration...
by Tom Kaiser | Jun 16, 2021 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
It’s been a slow roll toward the finish line, but Amsterdam-based Just Eat Takeaway.com completed its acquisition of Grubhub in an all-stock transaction that represents JET’s entry into the U.S. food delivery market. Grubhub President and CFO Adam DeWitt was named...
by Nicholas Upton | Jun 16, 2021 | News
Pizza fans in in Austin can now get their pies delivered by Refraction AI’s bike-lane robots. A fleet 10 REV-1 bots are making deliveries for Austin institution Southside Flying Pizza. Customers in three Austin neighborhoods can place orders with the restaurant...