A New Survey Confirms Off-Premises Prominence
Spend time in the restaurant journalism ecosphere and you will still find the occasional skeptic about off-premises operations. Those sales can’t continue to grow, can they? The results from the 2025 Off-Premises Restaurant Trends Report by the National...
Seamless Used To Rule the Delivery Game in NYC. Now It’s Back.
There was a time when delivery provider Seamless, which was founded in 1999 by two lawyers tired of reviewing paper menus and calling restaurants, was as integral a part of the New York casual-dining scene as thin-slice pizza and vendor hot dogs. It faded after...
DoorDash Delivers Grant To Organic Soup Kitchen in Santa Barbara
When it comes to playing a role in eradicating food insecurity, DoorDash is doing more than walking the talk: through its non-profit arm Project DASH, it’s often driving the discussion, most recently with a $2,500 Project Dash Impact Grant to Organic Soup Kitchen in...
CFOs Marvel at Strength of Third-Party Delivery
When Robert Linder, CFO of Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar, a casual-dining chain that operates 52 restaurants in eight states, was asked about his brand’s off-premises performance for 2024 at the recent Restaurant Finance & Development Conference, he expressed...
A Grubhub Survey Confirms Americans Are Crazy for Chicken
Everyone has heard the joke about a food tasting like chicken. But according to Grubhub’s annual 2024 Delivered Trend Report, the joke is on us as nearly 40 percent of its restaurant orders this year did taste like chicken, because they were chicken. Poultry dishes...
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.