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Chipotle Partners with ASAP, Hits 500 Chipotlanes
Chipotle opens its 500th restaurant with a Chipotlane, and outlined a new partnership with ASAP.com.
DoorDash Creates Merchant Benefits Program
DoorDash has launched a new program to provide merchants with benefits including healthcare, hiring and staff management.
Uber Unveils Holiday Additions, Gift Abilities
Uber has added holiday-specific offerings to Uber Eats, as well as the ability to send gifts.
Nestlé, Nextbite Debut Cookie Deliveries
Nestlé and Nextbite have partnered to launch Nestlé Toll House Cookie Delivery to third-party platforms.
Amazon’s Unveils Star Wars-Style Delivery Drone
In its quest for product deliveries faster than a single day, Amazon’s Prime Air division unveiled a new delivery drone that can fly up to 15 miles on a charge and deliver packages under five pounds to customers in less than 30 minutes. Looking somewhat similar to a...
Grubhub Nabs $400 Million Infusion
It’s been a rough eight months for Grubhub’s stock price, but the company is celebrating good news in the form of $400 million in new financing through a private offering. According to the company’s press release, $340 million of that cash pile will be used to repay...
Consumer Reports Rates Grocery Delivery Services
Looking at which online grocery delivery brands offer the freshest food the fastest and most cost-effectively, Consumer Reports just published a ranking that listed Target-owned Shipt as the best groceries-on-demand service. Consumer Reports is a subscription-based...
Google Adds “Order Delivery” Button, Will Late Adopters Follow?
Google has added an “Order Delivery” button allowing customers to summon meals from their favorite restaurants, which can be delivered through Postmates, DoorDash, Delivery.com, Slice and ChowNow. The company says more delivery providers will be added soon. By...
New DoorDash Funding Values Company at $12.6 Billion
In a pre-holiday announcement, DoorDash announced another round of investor cash bringing its total haul to more than $2 billion and the company’s valuation to an incredible $12.6 billion. The San Francisco-based company, founded by CEO Tony Xu, announced the...
Consumer Survey Dives into Incrementality, Frequency
As Wells Fargo sees restaurant delivery swelling to a $50 billion industry in the U.S. by 2022, the mega bank’s recent survey of 475 delivery consumers provides some insight on frequency, incrementality and the types of restaurants that have the most to gain. In its...
In Delivery Watch, Here Comes Amazon
It’s been clear that Amazon has its hungry eyes on the meal-delivery space, but it’s now making its big move with word that Seattle’s deliver-everything giant led a $575 million financing round in London-based Deliveroo, one of Europe’s largest third-party delivery...
Driver App Makes for Safer Delivery Drivers
If you’re Uber, Grubhub or DoorDash directing a huge fleet of delivery drivers or a restaurant with a lean-and-mean in-house delivery team, you have a vested interest in making sure your drivers are as safe as possible. Whether it’s causing an accident or just being a...
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Lunchbox Debuts Free Online Ordering Platform
Restaurant tech provider Lunchbox launched a commission-free online ordering platform designed for restaurants with one to three locations.
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Round Table Pizza Rolls out First Delivery-Only Restaurant
Round Table Pizza has been slinging pizza since 1959 with delivery part of the concept for decades. Now, for the first time, a franchisee is operating with no storefront out of a shared-kitchen facility.