by Tom Kaiser | Sep 8, 2022 | News, Top Stories
Uber signed a 10-year partnership with Nuro, a California-based electric delivery robot developer, to begin autonomous food deliveries starting in California and Texas. It’s the biggest step any U.S.-based food delivery service has taken toward introducing unmanned...
by Tom Kaiser | Sep 7, 2022 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
ClusterTruck co-founder Chris Baggott and restaurant executive Meredith Sandland, co-author of Delivering the Digital Restaurant, have launched Empower Delivery, a new software company enabling restaurants to “profitably and sustainably” service off-premises demand....
by Tom Kaiser | Sep 1, 2022 | News, Top Stories
Slice wants every independent pizza operator to know that it’s not just another online ordering service. As part of a comprehensive rebranding, the pizza-focused ordering platform is broadening its reach to bring technology and marketing services to tens of thousands...
by Tom Kaiser | Aug 25, 2022 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
It’s a throwback to the earliest days of delivery: what if restaurants banded together and created their own delivery service to avoid the costs of third-party delivery apps? After a few ups and downs, LoCo Co-Ops is doing exactly that in markets across the country,...
by Tom Kaiser | Aug 18, 2022 | News, Top Stories
Juicer is the latest company helping restaurants implement dynamic pricing and two of its co-founders, Ashwin Kamlani and Carl Orsbourn, believe this new pricing model is the key to improving off-premises profits and flattening out rush periods in this era of...
by Tom Kaiser | Aug 11, 2022 | News, Top Stories
An early partnership with DoorDash boosted Nimbus Kitchen right out of the gate, but the nascent ghost kitchen operator has plans to keep expanding in New York before covering the East Coast and, eventually, drifting westward. Compared to other ghost kitchens focusing...