Experts Debate ‘Future Battlegrounds’ Between Operators and Third Parties
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...
Panelists Discuss State of Industry at Food On Demand Conference Opener
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 ‘Sunsets’ Nationwide Shipping Program
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...
Study Shows Rising Delivery Price Premiums
Gordon Haskett Research Advisors studied average menu pricing premiums for 25 popular restaurant brands, which showed the average premium across the sector has increased to approximately 20 percent over the cost of dine-in. In its “Third-Party Delivery Menu Pricing...
FOD Undercover: Ordering Virtual Brands for Lunch
Editor’s note: It’s been a year since our last test of virtual restaurant brands (which included a YouTube burger from a strip club), so we decided to wade back in to see if delivery-only virtual brands have progressed in terms of packaging, quality and perceived...
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.
