Serve Robotics has raised $30 million in new financing to continue growing, while simultaneously announcing a complex merger that effectively makes the San Francisco-based company a public entity. With participation from Uber Technologies and NVIDIA, the latest...
Brita Rosenheim is an early-stage investor at Vita Vera Ventures, which she and Beatriz Franco founded in early 2023. After two years at Culterra Capital, Rosenheim is building a highly visible platform to connect with founders across the industries and show fellow...
The fate of MrBeast Burger, by far the most successful virtual restaurant by unit count, is up in the air after its namesake, Jimmy Donaldson, sues Virtual Dining Concepts citing “low quality” food from the delivery-only brand. The lawsuit comes a few weeks after...
Amid a stand of redwoods—the likes of Toast, NCR and Olo—Chowly is more of a Douglas fir, stately if not the tallest one in the forest. Now at 100 employees after buying guest experience provider Koala earlier this year, the order integration platform is branching out...
Hungry House founder Kristen Barnett is moving from her “anti-ghost kitchen” concept to something entirely new, but largely focused on the same cohort of culinary creators who have their own built-in followings in the F&B universe. Based in New York and steeped in...
After years of holding out while Papa John’s and Pizza Hut jumped into third-party delivery, Domino’s—the world’s largest pizza company—has signed a deal allowing U.S. customers to order its products through the Uber Eats and Postmates apps. Uber Eats will be the...
Off Premises University is a new digital content series designed to inform and educate restaurant operators on some of the most critical off-premises issues affecting their business and the best practices to address them.