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Deliverect Looks to Propel Growth with New CFO
Deliverect, a global online order integrator for restaurants and food businesses, appoints Johan Albrecht as its new chief financial officer.
Empower Delivery Getting OOMI’s Ducks in a Row
OOMI began using Empower Delivery to optimize its ghost kitchen kitchen management in-house delivery.
Clean Eatz Partners with U.S. Military to Supply Meal-Kits
Meal prep franchise in the health food landscape delivers its first-ever international meal shipment to U.S. military base in Iwakuni, Japan.
Toast Partners with Cartwheel on Hybrid Delivery
Toast partnered with Cartwheel, an on-demand delivery management platform, to provide new options for restaurants looking to implement a hybrid delivery system.
What to Consider When Growing Your Brand via Ghost and Virtual
Three experts with different backgrounds talked strategy and using limited resources wisely during Food On Demand virtual event Building Success with Ghost Kitchens & Virtual Restaurants.
Delivery Analysts Project Pandemic Habits Are Hanging On
If delivery platforms can hold onto their intra-pandemic market share, as the report suggests, the delivery sector will grow significantly in 2021.
Red Robin, Donatos Pizza Scale Up a Non-Traditional Partnership
Red Robin bringing Donatos Pizza into its kitchens to expand its delivery and dine-in offerings has proven to be a big hit.
Hello Fresh Up, Blue Apron Down as Restaurants Reopen
Fortunes are diverging among the largest meal kit providers, Blue Apron and Hello Fresh, as the meal kit industry wonders what consumer habits will stick after the pandemic.
C3 Becomes Chowly’s Exclusive Virtual Restaurant Partner
C3 announced a new partnership with Chowly to become its exclusive virtual restaurant partner bringing 40 digital brands to integration company’s clients.
Just Eat Takeaway Completes Grubhub Acquisition, Adam DeWitt is New CEO
Amsterdam-based Just Eat Takeaway.com completed its acquisition of Grubhub representing its entry into the U.S. food delivery market.
Refraction AI Bots Roll into Austin
Pizza fans in in Austin can now get their pies delivered by Refraction AI's bike-lane robots. A fleet 10 REV-1 bots are making deliveries for Austin institution Southside Flying Pizza. Customers in three Austin neighborhoods can place orders with the restaurant and...
Novel Ghost Operator JustKitchen Set to Land in U.S.
JustKitchen is riding a wave of investment and success in Asian markets into the frothy waters of U.S. ghost kitchen industry. The company just raised $24 million for several international expansion projects that also include Singapore and the Philippines. The key...
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Finance
Kitchen United Nabs Lightning-Fast $10M Series A
Just how excited are investors about the ghost kitchen industry? Well, according to Kitchen United CEO Jim Collins, they are pretty eager. “I think we opened and closed the round in about two days,” said Collins. The outcome of that fervent desire for ghost kitchens...
Research
Omnivore’s Well-Funded Delivery Insight
Last year when Coca-Cola led a $10 million investment into delivery software brand Omnivore it marked the biggest, flashiest big-food brand jumping into the delivery landscape to date. Months after the big news, California-based Omnivore is positioning itself as an agnostic asset to restaurant operators trying to decide whether to deliver and cater, how many brands to work with if they do, and how to connect it all in a way that doesn’t cause headaches in the back of the house.
The Deliverers
Nextbite, Vroom Partner on Convenience Store Delivery
Vroom Delivery partnered with Nextbite’s/Ordermark to enable C-stores to add delivery.
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Kiwibot Plans Campus Expansion After Sodexo Contract, $7.5M Investment
More than 1,200 of Kiwibot’s delivery robots will soon be roaming 50 college campuses across the U.S. thanks to a new contract with Sodexo and a $7.5 million pre-Series A investment.