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Huey Magoo’s Integrates with Tech Platform Qu to Achieve Aggressive Growth
The emerging brand says the integration will assist in plans to double locations this year while fulfilling guest orders across in-store, drive-thru and digital channels.
Portillo’s Bets on Southern States, Hero Dads
Portillo’s is sitting pretty thanks to multi-lane drive-thrus, luring “hero dads” inside and doubling down on its most concentrated markets.
Online Grocery Sales Hit $9.1 Billion, Up 2.4 Percent
Driving the U.S. grocery e-commerce growth was a combination of more households buying groceries online and a slight uptick in order values.
Rising Restaurant Costs Reveal Generational Divide in Spending
Amid rising prices, older consumers are dining out less, while younger generations are choosing lower-priced restaurants.
Your Fare Raises ‘All Angel’ Round of $2.4 Million
Your Fare, one of the handful of service companies helping restaurant operators make sense of digital delivery, announced a successful venture funding round of $2.4 million. Founder and CEO Chris Monk said the company, which started as a basic accounting tool for...
Figure Eight Launches Delivery-Focused Consulting
Seeing the unstoppable rise of delivery and catering, a New York City-based entrepreneur with a background in farming, engineering and philosophy is turning his attention to helping restaurants streamline their third-party delivery programs and avoid worst-practices...
Blue Apron Seeking ‘Strategic Alternatives’
The once-disruptive meal kit leader, Blue Apron, announced that it was looking at a “range of strategic alternatives” as it reported its final quarterly earnings for 2019. In all, the fourth-quarter results were not great. The company missed earnings per share...
P.F. Chang’s Opens “To-Go” Concept in Chicago
After recently closing its last full-service restaurant in Chicago, P.F. Chang’s has opened a new, smaller concept that’s exclusively focused on carryout, delivery and catering in the city’s River North neighborhood on the edge of the central business district. To...
Online Grocery (Finally) Coming in Hot
After years of lackluster growth compared to the fast rise of meal delivery, U.S. consumers are starting to embrace online grocery shopping, with a new study arguing that groceries ordered in advance for delivery and pickup has passed a tipping point and “is now an...
Judge Blocks Platform Push to Halt California Labor Law AB 5
In a damaging salvo in the legislative war in California, a judge opted not to block the labor law commonly known as Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5). The labor law went into effect in the state on January 1, 2020, and puts a three-part test in effect to determine whether or...
Bolt’s e-Bikes Designed to Revolutionize Meal Delivery
As the e-scooter craze begins to subside 20 years after Segways first promised to change our world, electric bicycles built to haul cargo might actually deliver on this lofty claim. Battery-powered two-wheelers will soon be ferrying groceries and Amazon boxes...
Grubhub Loses Share as DoorDash, Uber Eats, Postmates Grow
DoorDash remains the top dog among the largest U.S. third-party delivery providers, according to new research from Edison Trends. Gleaning national share from an analysis of more than 150,000 transactions in January, DoorDash is still the leading provider with nearly...
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Research
Data Insights on Restaurant, Meal Delivery
By Tom Kaiser – Raw numbers can be hard to come by in such a new industry, especially one dominated by cutthroat competition banking on explosive predictions to keep the venture capital flowing. But research from 1010data on the restaurant and meal delivery categories offers a piping fresh look at who’s up, who’s down and which food-delivery upstarts are retaining customers after the initial trial period.
The Deliverers
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.
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Starbird Flies High with Four Successful Virtual Concepts
Starbird scaled up its footprint as it begins franchising the upscale fast-food brand, which also includes four successful virtual restaurant concepts.