Pizza Hut’s President on Reclaiming the Brand’s Mojo
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...
FOD Tech Stack Event: Digital Ordering Update
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....
Olo IPO Validates Company’s Role in Digital Transformation
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...
Deliveroo Prepares its London IPO
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...
VDC’s Guy Fieri Flavortown Kitchen Hits 160 Locations
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...
Outstanding Operators
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