Meals 4 Six-Inch Heels
Meals 4 Six-Inch Heels is not your typical food-delivery startup. For one, the founder isn’t a young, white dude pounding out code in a Bay Area WeWork. Founder Nikeisah Newton is a black, gay and social-justice minded chef living and working in Portland. And her...
Cowen Downgrades Grub on “Narrative Problem,” Recommends Buying Waitr
Cowen, a New York analyst firm that closely follows Grubhub, slightly downgraded its price target for the Chicago-based delivery giant. Following the company’s revised 2019 guidance, the firm lowered its price target from $91 to $86, affirming that it still expects...
Big Restaurants Seeing Delivery as a Pillar, not a Hurdle
Publicly traded restaurants like McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Wingstop are just a few of the mega brands that were early adopters of delivery. Others, like Chipotle, Starbucks and the Yum Brands trio of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut were later adopters. As part of its...
Nuro Founder: No ‘Rosie’ Coming Soon
Dave Ferguson, one of the co-founders of Nuro, said there’s no “Rosie” in sight yet, but automation companies like his are the first step toward a massively automated future. Ferguson is one of the cofounders of the automated-delivery vehicle maker that is currently...
Study Looks at Enticing Delivery Users Back into the Restaurant
In the fourth installment of its food delivery survey, Wells Fargo surveyors asked 575 delivery customers what would drive them back into a restaurant for an in-store visit. The somewhat hilarious answer? Lower menu prices and free menu items. Yes, that ought to do...
Outstanding Operators
Food On Demand Outstanding Operators features restaurant brands with innovative operations that are taking creative paths to success with delivery and all things off-premises.