by Adam Wahlberg | May 9, 2024 | News
If there was a theme to come out of the “Take Multi-Channel Marketing to the Max” panel at this year’s Food On Demand Conference, it is to listen relentlessly to your customers. And be willing to kill your darlings. Including Becky. Becky was the...
by Laura Michaels | May 8, 2024 | News, Top Stories
When he left Uber in 2017, Travis Kalanick said someone told him 13 percent of all miles driven in San Francisco were “Uber miles.” The co-founder of the ride-hailing giant recalled thinking, “Can we do that with food?” Kalanick, who bought CloudKitchens parent...
by Adam Wahlberg | May 7, 2024 | News, News Briefs, Third-Party Delivery
When it comes to two unlikely goliaths combining forces, it’s not on the scale of Iron Man and Spider-Man. But Uber Eats and Instacart are still pretty formidable. And they are pointing their combined super powers at DoorDash. Instacart will soon introduce a...
by Beth Signarovitz | May 6, 2024 | News, News Briefs
Toast has launched its Digital Storefront and Marketing Suites. This provides restaurants with the ability to gather data from both online and point-of-sale (POS) transactions and also integrate across the Toast platform. The data can then be used for targeted...
by Adam Wahlberg | May 3, 2024 | News, News Briefs, Third-Party Delivery
Most of us have requested extra towels at a hotel. But extra burritos? Who could dream that big? Now you can order all you want, or anything in GrubHub’s Marketplace, if you stay in one of the 600 locations run by Home2 Suites by Hilton, an all-suite extended stay...
by Bernadette Heier | May 2, 2024 | News, Outstanding Operators
GoTo Foods is Food On Demand’s next Outstanding Operator The multi-brand platform is being recognized for implementing strategies to best manage and grow the off-premises side of each of its seven brands, while building and integrating technologies to streamline...