by Tom Kaiser | May 17, 2023 | News, Top Stories
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,...
by Beth Ewen | May 10, 2023 | Finance, News, Top Stories
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...
by Beth Ewen | May 10, 2023 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
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...
by Beth Ewen | May 3, 2023 | News, Top Stories
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...
by Tom Kaiser | Apr 26, 2023 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
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...
by Tom Kaiser | Apr 19, 2023 | News, Top Stories
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...