by Tom Kaiser | Jun 6, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
In its quest for product deliveries faster than a single day, Amazon’s Prime Air division unveiled a new delivery drone that can fly up to 15 miles on a charge and deliver packages under five pounds to customers in less than 30 minutes. Looking somewhat similar to a...
by Nicholas Upton | Jun 6, 2019 | Best Practices, Research, Third-Party Delivery
Packaging for delivery is key, and something the industry is making great strides in to keep food in a decent state during delivery, but the waste created by restaurant packaging is becoming a bigger and bigger issue. The New York Times recently published an article...
by Beth Ewen | May 29, 2019 | Research, Top Stories
The conveyor belt may be the neatest thing at Kitchen United’s first Illinois ghost kitchen within the River North neighborhood in Chicago. Restaurant operators place their packaged orders and they’re whisked away overhead to get to the waiting delivery drivers, and...
by Tom Kaiser | May 29, 2019 | Best Practices, News, Research
As Wells Fargo sees restaurant delivery swelling to a $50 billion industry in the U.S. by 2022, the mega bank’s recent survey of 475 delivery consumers provides some insight on frequency, incrementality and the types of restaurants that have the most to gain. In its...
by Tom Kaiser | May 22, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
It’s been clear that Amazon has its hungry eyes on the meal-delivery space, but it’s now making its big move with word that Seattle’s deliver-everything giant led a $575 million financing round in London-based Deliveroo, one of Europe’s largest third-party delivery...
by Tom Kaiser | May 22, 2019 | Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Ford Motor Company is partnering with a robot manufacturer to pair its self-driving cars with advanced, humanlike robots to bring packages right to the front door of anxiously waiting customers. Its new partnership with Agility Robotics is focused on new ways of...