Starbird Flies High with Four Successful Virtual Concepts
After soaring through the pandemic, Starbird has dramatically scaled up its small footprint and grown same-store sales 36 percent during the first half of 2021 as it begins to franchise the upscale fast-food brick-and-mortar brand, which also includes four successful...
ShiftPixy Building Ghost Kitchen Incubator, VR Concepts
For ShiftPixy, a gig economy platform that diversified into helping restaurants build their own native ordering platforms, ghost kitchens and virtual restaurants are too big of an opportunity to ignore. The company is launching a ghost kitchen incubator to test its...
Jokr Finds Less is More in Rapid Grocery, Retail Delivery
Like cicadas, the rapid-delivery grocery category has sprung up so quickly you’ve got to assume it’s been here all along, waiting for the ideal time to emerge from the ground. It’s easy to picture use cases where near-instant grocery delivery makes sense, but Jokr is...
Belgium-based Deliverect Plots North American Growth
Fresh off a recent $65 million funding round, Belgium-based Deliverect is moving into the North American hospitality market with expectations that delivery volumes still have significant growth ahead, partially fueled by the explosion of ghost kitchens and virtual...
Red Robin, Donatos Pizza Scale Up a Non-Traditional Partnership
Years after delivery has dominated the conversation, restaurants are once again getting creative with non-traditional real estate opportunities, including partnering with unaffiliated brands to unlock new territories and rope in the best attributes of ghost kitchens...
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.