Amazon’s High-Tech Grocery Foray

Amazon’s High-Tech Grocery Foray

By Tom Kaiser Low margins, enormous overhead, perishable inventory, cutthroat competition and crabby customers are just a few reasons the grocery business isn’t easy. But that’s not deterring Amazon’s most recent example of relentless expansion in its hometown of...
Delivery practices in Asia

Delivery practices in Asia

By Nancy Weingartner When it comes to food on demand, the U.S. is behind the developing world, but with the plethora of new companies jumping on the bandwagon, we’re doing our best to catch up. In Dubai, for instance, “you can get a single item delivered to you,...

Food On Demand News Briefs – January 2017

Alexa, remember that sushi restaurant I like so much? Order a spicy tuna roll Amazon Prime members in 20 cities can use their Echo or Echo dot to voice-order their next meal from one of the restaurants on Amazon Restaurants, but only from restaurants they’ve already...
Finding the Goldilocks of delivery packaging

Finding the Goldilocks of delivery packaging

By Nicholas Upton We’ve all been there. You order delivery or carryout and eagerly open the bag to find not the beautiful restaurant presentation, but a soggy mess. If you’re on the receiving end, you don’t want a soggy mess, but even more important, no restaurant...