by Nicholas Upton | Oct 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Finance, News
Recently revealed real estate documents provide another hint at what ghost-kitchen builder CloudKitchens has going on behind the scenes. According to The Wall Street Journal, CloudKitchens has gobbled up 40 properties across the country, spending more than $130...
by Nicholas Upton | Oct 22, 2020 | News, Top Stories
Ghost-kitchen operator ClusterTruck and grocery juggernaut Kroger have been expanding on a partnership that they first inked last year. Read our previous coverage on the partnership in which Kroger lent its branding to the Indianapolis-area ghost kitchen operator...
by fodnews | Oct 15, 2020 | News, Research, Top Stories
By Tom Kaiser and Nicholas Upton There’s nothing more convenient than doing nothing. One tiny step below that is opening a delivery app to plug in a convenience store order, now that so many third-party delivery services have added C-store delivery to their...
by Nicholas Upton | Oct 15, 2020 | Best Practices, Meal Kits, News
Dream Dinners can be a lifeline for busy parents and folks who want an easy dinner. In normal times, customers show up, prep a whole bunch of meals for the next few weeks and take them home. Of course, standing in a dinner-prep assembly line during a pandemic is not...
by Nicholas Upton | Oct 15, 2020 | Finance, News, Top Stories
If you thought a global pandemic, potentially disruptive economic collapse or a tumultuous election would have slowed the investment in the food and mobility space, you’d be wrong. GoPuff announced another venture round on October 8. The delivery-only convenience...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 15, 2020 | News
With so many meals leaving restaurants by customer pickup and delivery drivers, one might think the pandemic has launched a gold rush of restaurant brands upgrading off-premises shelving to heated, frozen and cooled solutions. But not according to one leading...