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Wow Bao Expands to Grocery Sushi Counters, Ramps Up NFT Loyalty
Wow Bao expands its nationwide grocery presence with Hissho Sushi and teases the upcoming NFT loyalty program launch.
Food Waste Tech Company Looks to Major Expansion with $1 Billion Deal
Divert Inc. a U.S. company that converts food waste from retailers into renewable natural gas plans to scale its facilities nationwide.
Tiny Drumsticks Making Space for ‘Homeless’ Culinary Entrepreneurs
Two New York City friends tapped into a pipeline of culinary makers, restaurants, caterers and TV networks needing flexible spaces.
Flybuy, Olo Launch Partnership, Streamline Restaurant Pickup
Location-based customer experience platform, Flybuy, announced new integrations with Olo to streamline staff operations.
BurgerFi Joins Reef Kitchens in Delivery-Only Expansion
Preferring the term “neighborhood kitchen” to ghost or virtual kitchen, Miami-based Reef Kitchens is a mixture of both, serving as a delivery-only hub for established restaurants and those that exist purely in online form within third-party delivery apps.
Figure 8, Zuul Kitchens Team up on Restaurant Recovery Consulting
Embracing non-traditional operations as the new normal, the consultants at Figure 8 Logistics have teamed up with Zuul Kitchens, a New York City-based ghost kitchen operator, to advise restaurants on the full buffet of non-traditional restaurant models that are...
DoorDash Expands Pickup Feature, Releases User Survey
As more restaurants continue to do takeout, DoorDash is expanding its two-year-old customer pickup feature that shares customer location data so merchants can be alerted to them approaching the store to ease back-of-the-house operations. The company, which is the...
ParTech, Revolution Team Up On Table Service
ParTech, a restaurant and retail point-of-sale provider, has partnered with Restaurant Revolution Technologies and its Order One Maverick digital ordering product to help restaurants grow their off-premises business by offering more ways to order for delivery,...
Reservation Platform Tock Nabs $10 Million after COVID Pivot
Reservation and booking platform Tock secured a $10-million investment round as it pivoted from in-person operations to off-premises enabler to help restaurants provide takeout and curbside meals. When COVID-19 hit, the restaurant industry came to a screeching halt,...
Slice Announces $43 Million Round as COVID Accelerates Adoption
Slice, a technology provider for independent pizza restaurants, secured a significant round of funding as it helps client businesses power through the pandemic. Pizza has been a big winner during the COVID-19 pandemic, Domino’s reported a 7.1 percent increase in...
Grocery Stores Struggle with Too Many Online Orders
Mercatus, a digital engagement provider that builds mobile apps and websites for grocery retailers, says the near-instant move to curbside and delivery at grocery stores has created major challenges for the industry that mirror the restaurant delivery space: limited...
ChowNow Rolls Out Its Loyalty
ChowNow, one of several companies helping restaurants generate and fulfill their own in-house delivery orders, has rolled out a loyalty membership program that it says can help independent restaurants remain profitable as takeout and delivery remains the mainstay of...
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Kitchen United Opens First of Many Shared Kitchens
The idea of a virtual restaurant powered by a ghost kitchen has been a trendy topic in the food on demand space, but the first company built around the concept is now operating out of Pasadena, California. Kitchen United’s soft opening, friends and family nights and a...
The Deliverers
Decrying Influence of ‘Tech Bros,’ OOMI Digital Kitchen Launches in Dallas
With a spicy announcement decrying the influence of “food tech bros” in delivery, OOMI Digital Kitchen is a new ghost kitchen opening in Dallas
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Zume Partners for Open-Source PFA-Free Food Packaging
Zume has created a substitute for single-use plastics it is open sourcing in partnership with Solenis for food packaging and consumer packaged goods.