A new Restaurant Trends Report from Toast provides an interesting look at dining and delivery habits as the industry moves further beyond the challenges presented by three years of pandemic adjustments. Notably, only Kansas City exceeded its pre-pandemic lunchtime...
During its annual press event, Go-Get, Uber announced a round of updates and new features enabling family profiles and teen accounts, a phone number for riders to request a car without using the app, group grocery orders, video gift messaging and boat reservations,...
Dynamic pricing is the rage among restaurants, but it’s difficult to pull off especially as inflation may be starting to ease. “Everybody seems to get into it at the late end of the cycle. When it gets to the late part of the cycle, people make bad...
Restaurant operators aren’t necessarily big fans of third-party delivery providers—those fees! that data-hoarding!—and a provocatively named panel dug into the topic at the Food On Demand Conference. “Future Battlegrounds of Data, Delivery and...
Editor Tom Kaiser posed the million-dollar question to panelists to open the Food On Demand Conference today: “We are not in an official recession but inflation is clearly having a huge impact on restaurants, and bringing the cost of delivery to unbelievable...
Uber has ended its Nationwide Shipping program, effective on April 30th, shuttering its short-lived Goldbelly competitor that allowed restaurants and merchants to send packaged goods through the mail to all U.S. states except Alaska and Hawaii. In late February, Uber...
