Bite Squad Completes Massive, 17-Company Acquisition
By Thomas Kaiser Bite Squad, a five-year-old, third-party restaurant delivery service based in Minneapolis, announced a massive 17-company acquisition that expands its footprint to more than 30 U.S. metro areas and vaults the company into one of the category’s largest...
Olo Partners With Amazon To Streamline Delivery
By Nick Upton The legion of white Amazon vans roving through your city will be carrying more restaurant deliveries after penning a deal with delivery logistics provider Olo. In the new deal, Amazon has partnered with Olo, integrating with Rails, Olo’s API that makes...
GrubHub Gobbles Up Yelp’s Eat24
By Tom Kaiser After forking over for Foodler in June, Grubhub purchased Eat24 from Yelp for $287.5 million, further solidifying its status as the leading provider of third-party food delivery. Investors celebrated Grubhub’s soon-to-be expanded menu and possibilities...
Grubhub Partners with Groupon, Acquires ‘Certain Assets’
By Nicholas Upton The Lyft and Taco Bell partnership isn’t the only cooperation happening in the third-party delivery world. Grubhub and Groupon are working together and doing some light consolidation. Under a new agreement, Groupon users will be able to order food...
Lyft Drivers to Taco Bell: ‘You Stink’
Lyft and Taco Bell thought they had a match made in heaven, but the partnership has been dubbed “Taco Hell” by drivers. “Taco Mode” is now a publicized option for Lyft. Customers can call participating drivers and be driven through a Taco Bell while being transported...
Outstanding Operators
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