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FODC Panel Shines Spotlight on Recent Restaurant Analytics
Two industry research providers share exclusive findings about consumer expectations, market insights and technology adoption in the on-demand world.
Be Creative With Your Packaging But Don’t Crush Your Margins
Are you overspending on packaging? Here’s how to tell.
Third-Party Delivery Providers Make Their Case
The market leaders in food delivery convene to give a state of the industry.
Digitization Process For Restaurants Is An Omni-Channel Effort
If you have not gone fully digital, what are you waiting for?
GoTab Rolls Out In-Venue Ordering Suite
In another technology play designed for the return to venues, GoTab has launched a suite of tools to help multi-operator locations to lean into digital payments. With the new functionality, venues like food halls and stadiums—as well as pop-up event operators that...
ItsaCheckmate Goes Live as On-Google Ordering Option
Under a new partnership between Google and order-integrator and digital service provider ItsaCheckmate, customers can order directly from their search results. The partnership is one part of Google’s further push into the digital ordering space across commerce, and...
Two Charts Show Ongoing Third-Party Evolution
Taking stock of the third-party delivery market in the second quarter of 2022 largely continues long-term trends, but there are some notable nuggets. In data from YipitData, a research and analysis firm with a focus on the delivery market, the big market share numbers...
Uber, Nuro Forge 10-Year Robotic Delivery Partnership
Uber Eats signed a 10-year partnership with Nuro, a California-based electric delivery robot developer.
Sense360 Reveals Post-Covid Restaurant Trends, Spending Data
Researchers at Sense360 by Medallia dove into the latest food and beverage sales data to examine what COVID trends are no longer relevant.
Toast, Flybuy Pickup Launch Full Integration
Flybuy, a restaurant technology provider of optimized curbside, drive-thru, in-store and delivery driver pickup, is now integrated on the Toast point-of-sale platform.
Partnership Brings QR-Based Payment to Drive Thru
The kiosk is coming for the drive-thru, too, under a new partnership between Delphi Display Systems and Paerpay. Delphi, a provider of hardware for the quick-service industry, and Paerpay, a mobile payments provider, connected the dots (and their technology stacks) to...
Meredith Sandland, Chris Baggott Team Up to Empower Delivery
ClusterTruck co-founder Chris Baggott and restaurant executive Meredith Sandland have launched Empower Delivery, a new company enabling restaurants to “profitably and sustainably” service off-premises demand.
Outstanding Operators
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Finance
Domino’s, Wingstop Show Again: ‘You Want to Be in Delivery’
As two off-premises giants have already demonstrated, whether it’s internal or third-party, delivery is the place to be during the volatile COVID-19 pandemic. The two companies showed some exceptional results in their respective second-quarter earnings. Domino’s...
Research
In Delivery, Sweetberry Bowls Tries All of the Above
With all the upheaval in the restaurant industry, the CEO of Sweetberry Bowls is having fun as a former tech guy who says he fell into foodservice. As Founder and CEO Desi Saran grows his franchised restaurant toward 20 locations and explores the full gamut of ghost...
The Deliverers
Experts Debate ‘Future Battlegrounds’ Between Operators and Third Parties
A provocatively named panel dug into the relationship between restaurants and third-party delivery providers at this year’s Food On Demand Conference.
Best Practices
What are your peers doing in delivery? Get some of the best practices out there.
Countertop Oven Celcy Enters Beta With ‘Nespresso for Food’
Strapped for time to cook? Want dinner ready exactly when you get home? The startup consumer electronic device Celcy hopes to help with a countertop device that stores and cooks food automatically—and it’s a lot more than another microwave. The device, designed by...