by Tom Kaiser | Mar 25, 2021 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
After consecutive same-store sales gains, interim Pizza Hut President Kevin Hochman said the second-largest pizza brand is reclaiming its reputation for culinary innovation and retooling its business for a permanently larger percentage of off-premises sales. With...
by fodnews | Mar 25, 2021 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
During the second session of Food On Demand’s Building Your Off-Premises Tech Stack event, Ordermark CEO Alex Canter and Lunchbox CTO Andrew Boryk joined FOD Editor Tom Kaiser for an update on digital ordering after years of massive changes in the restaurant scene....
by Nicholas Upton | Mar 18, 2021 | Finance, News, Top Stories
Olo, the multifaceted ordering and logistics platform for enterprise restaurants, reached a new milestone on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The company went public with an 18 million-share offering. The stock began trading at $32, a more than 20-percent...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 10, 2021 | News, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Deliveroo, one of Europe’s largest restaurant-delivery services and one which is backed by an investment from Amazon, announced plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange in a listing that “could value the British food-delivery firm at around $7 billion and mark...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 10, 2021 | News, Top Stories
Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen is the latest celebrity-backed virtual restaurant from Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC), and since its rollout in early 2021, Flavortown Kitchen is already up to approximately 160 locations up and running. Founded by Robert Earl, a...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 4, 2021 | Best Practices, COVID-19, Meal Kits, News, Top Stories
Michael Kudrna, owner of Frato’s Culinary Kitchen in suburban Chicago, isn’t just experimenting with direct sales and virtual concepts to survive the pandemic. He’s also working with culinary students to provide real-world experience that’s not part of most culinary...