Wonder Begins Testing Robotic Delivery with Avride
Wonder, Marc Lore’s fast-growing restaurant platform, is testing robot delivery for the first time. It’s happening through Grubhub, which Wonder acquired earlier this year and autonomous vehicle maker Avride. Customers ordering from the Jersey City location can...
Waymo Gets Into Food Delivery
Waymo announced it’s teaming up with DoorDash to offer autonomous delivery in metro Phoenix. Known for its driverless robotaxis, Waymo has quietly explored how its tech could move goods as well as people. The company tested deliveries with UPS and Uber Eats, and once...
AI Steps In to Automate One of Restaurants’ Most Dreaded Tasks
Counting inventory is one of the most time-consuming and least-loved tasks for many restaurant operators, yet one of the most important. A growing wave of computer vision tools, including those from startups like NomadGo, are giving operators a way out. Using AI to...
Dave’s Hot Chicken Taps Matternet for Drone Delivery
Matternet is the latest drone developer making moves in the restaurant delivery space. Founded in 2011, the company started in humanitarian logistics and healthcare, transporting urgent items such as blood samples, COVID vaccines, and chemotherapy drugs. In the U.S.,...
How ChatGPT Is Changing Restaurant Discovery and Online Ordering
Ordering food delivery just got a new middleman. OpenAI is adding apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, Instacart, and 11 others to ChatGPT later this year, letting users order food, book trips, or shop without leaving the chat. Type “tacos nearby,” and ChatGPT will pull up...
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