by Nicholas Upton | Jan 28, 2019 | News, Research, Top Stories
Your next food delivery could be packed with ugly fruits and vegetables, and that’s a good thing. Every year, Americans waste a staggering amount of food. The best guess is between one-third and one-half of all food goes to waste. The USDA estimates between 30 and 40...
by Laura Michaels | Jan 28, 2019 | Automation, Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Noting it’s the “first autonomous vehicle created from the ground up by an on-demand delivery company,” Postmates unveiled a robot dubbed “Serve,” which it calls a rover and plans to debut on the sidewalks of Los Angeles. That launch, the company points out,...
by fodnews | Jan 28, 2019 | News, Research
I was sitting in the first Itsu location outside the U.K.—on 7th Avenue and 39th Street in New York City—when I noticed another food on demand concept inside a food on demand concept. Itsu, a grab-and-go healthy Asian eatery is one of a large group of restaurants that...
by Laura Michaels | Jan 9, 2019 | Best Practices, News, Research, Top Stories
The name itself piques interest: Viddl-It. Wayback Burgers’ new electric vehicle initiative, Viddl-It combines the on-site cooking of food trucks with on-demand delivery technology to ultimately bring consumers a better product. The desire to deliver a better...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 9, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
With mall and hotel kiosks, packaged goods on store shelves and drive-thrus all over, you might feel like Starbucks is everywhere, but a new delivery partnership with Uber Eats means that coffee call may soon be coming from inside your house. During its 2018 Investor...
by fodnews | Jan 9, 2019 | Briefs, News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
Cruise Automation a subsidiary of General Motors, and DoorDash announced a new partnership to test restaurant and grocery delivery via Cruise’s autonomous vehicles through the DoorDash platform. Testing will begin early this year with an initial focus on the San...