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Domino’s Now Lets Delivery Customers Drop a Pin for Delivery
The new Pinpoint Delivery feature allows Domino’s Pizza customers to receive deliveries nearly anywhere, including parks, baseball fields and beaches.
Leveraging AI, RestoGPT Builds Restaurants Online Ordering Storefronts in a Flash
Powered by Orderbyte, RestoGPT can generate an online-ordering website for restaurants within two hours or less.
Amid “Strategic” Reshuffling, Olo Lays off 81 Employees
Leading restaurant tech company Olo is laying off 11 percent of its workforce as part of a “strategic reorganization” the company stated Wednesday.
Clover Unveils New Kitchen Display System
Clover released its new KDS that aims to provide a real-time look at tickets and key metrics for kitchen staff.
Sharebite’s Charitable Focus Targets Workplace Meals
With old-school catering still sidelined and facing an uncertain future due to the pandemic, the workplace meal-delivery scene is heating up with New York-based Sharebite, which recently inked some high-profile corporate partnerships for its lunchtime delivery service that puts a big focus on charitable giving.
Ghost Bar Slinging Cocktails Virtually
One of the best things about going out for both consumers and restaurants is a perfectly crafted cocktail. With all the syrups, bitters, juices and expert balance, they’re almost invariably better than one can make at home and carry a great profit margin for the...
Would Uber Let DoorDash Hog Super Bowl Spotlight? ‘Sha Right!’
Uber announced it would be advertising at the biggest television event of the year, just like DoorDash, and pulling on some nostalgic heartstrings. The company announced it bought an ad spot in which Wayne’s World stars Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey embark on a mission...
Uber to Acquire Alcohol Delivery Brand Drizly
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi wasn’t kidding when he said ride-sharing will be a comparatively smaller part of the company’s future. It’s bringing alcohol delivery into the fold with the announcement of an agreement to acquire Drizly for approximately $1.1 billion in stock and cash.
Bbot Raises $7.3M on Path to be ‘Stripe for Restaurants’
Bbot aims to be a key part of the restaurant technology ecosystem by providing a lot of tools to speed up development across the broader restaurant technology space. After a new $4 million seed round the company is working toward that goal with a total of $7.3 million...
American Airlines Now Delivers Wine
If you're missing travel amid the pandemic and are especially hankering for that "vin de premium economy" experience, you are in luck. Move your chairs together, break out your noise-canceling headphones and get your plastic cup ready, American Airlines wine has...
In All Fairness, Foodsby Revamps Fees for Restaurant Partners
Foodsby has reformatted its commission structure with an eye on fairness—both for its restaurant partners and its own bottom line. After dropping commissions to 3.5 percent during the early days of COVID, the workplace-focused meal provider is going public with its reinvention in hopes of attracting restaurants put off by the high fees of third-party delivery and catering marketplaces.
Slice Rolls Out Pizzeria Scores
Slice, the third-party delivery marketplace exclusively for independent pizzerias, announced a new Pizzeria Score tool to allow consumers to rate the more than 14,000 pizza shops in its network. According to the New York-based company, early tests of the Pizzeria Score function showed that it can “help double or even triple orders” while fostering increased customer loyalty.
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Finance
Delivery Space could See Major M&A Activity in 2017
By Nick Upton
Caviar’s late 2016 acquisition of Philadelphia food-delivery startup Main Line Delivery put an end cap on the M&A activities in the food-on-demand realm. And deals like it could make 2017 a banner year for M&A in the space.
Research
Get a Jump on the Future at FODC
The stakes aren’t as high as the days when a national pizza company promised your pizza in 30 minutes or it’s free (not surprisingly there were accidents, some more than just fender-benders), but the need to get up to speed on delivery quickly is sweeping the...
The Deliverers
ItsaCheckmate Launches Marketplace, Open API Platform
ItsaCheckmate launched Marketplace, a new product allowing “innovators and startups” to build a single integration that instantly provides them with access to more than 50 different point-of-sale systems.
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Serve Robotics Raises $13M After Uber Spinoff
Serve Robotics just raised $13 million in a seed extension round to grow its sidewalk delivery bot operations in new markets and with new partners. The company was built inside Postmates under the company's Postmates X division that explored cutting-edge technologies....