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Box Branding Panel Highlights Importance of ‘Three Fs:’ Form, Function and Finish
When food is delivered to an off-premises location, a key way to represent the brand of a restaurant is through the packaging.
Empower Delivery Encourages Restaurants to Go All-in on Delivery
Two big names in delivery teamed up to bring independent restaurants and ghost kitchens better delivery economics.
Apex Debuts Exterior-facing Smart Food Lockers
Apex launched its OrderHQ Exterior lockers that are designed to provide customer or pickup through the exterior wall of a restaurant.
Former Reef President, Michael Beacham, Joins Earl Enterprises
Michael Beacham, previously the president of Reef Kitchens, was hired by Earl Enterprises, the parent company of Virtual Dining Concepts.
Four Delivery Companies Extend Walmart’s Grocery Reach
AxelHire, Point Pickup, Roadie and Skipcart are part of Walmart’s answer to the question of how it can expand its ability to deliver groceries to more consumers.
Bringg Nabs $25 Million to Accelerate Growth
Enterprise delivery logistics platform Bringg announced it has raised a new round of funding from a handful of partners, bringing its recent haul to a cool $55 million. Following what it calls strong market traction with clients including Walmart; Panera Bread; and...
DoorDash Hires Away Uber Engineer
The delivery wars are real, and spilling across corporate borders with the latest announcement that DoorDash hired away Ryan Sokol, a former director who was with Uber for more than four years.
Whole Foods Reportedly Ditching Smaller 365 Stores
Yahoo Finance reports that Amazon is halting its expansion of the smaller 365 grocery stores, which were created in 2015 as a smaller, cheaper, more urbane version of Whole Foods grocery stores.
Bite Squad Releases ‘18’s Most Popular Delivery Foods
I’m a sucker for year-end lists, and Bite Squad has fueled my fire with its most popular restaurant delivery picks of 2018, both for the country as a whole and for a good number of the recently acquired brand’s top markets. The top four picks, wings, burgers, pizza and burritos are no surprise, but the list gets more interesting after that.
Wayback’s Solution: On-site Cooking in Electric Vehicles
The name itself piques interest: Viddl-It. Wayback Burgers’ new electric vehicle initiative, Viddl-It combines the on-site cooking of food trucks with on-demand delivery technology to ultimately bring consumers a better product.
Starbucks Dives Deep With UberEats Delivery Deal
With mall and hotel kiosks, packaged goods on store shelves and drive-thrus all over, you might feel like Starbucks is everywhere, but a new delivery partnership with UberEats means that coffee call may soon be coming from inside your house.
GM’s Cruise and DoorDash Testing Driverless Deliveries
Cruise Automation a subsidiary of General Motors, and DoorDash announced a new partnership to test restaurant and grocery delivery via Cruise’s autonomous vehicles through the DoorDash platform.
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Uber’s New Nationwide Shipping Takes on Goldbelly
Uber has launched a nationwide shipping program to get consumers across the country whatever they’re craving, whether it comes from NYC, Miami or LA.
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Tech-Stack Recap: Savvy Marketing is a Data Hog
Take one look at the ecommerce marketing world and you'll see a frightening amount of data at work. One search for socks follows you to the very ends of the earth. The restaurant industry is playing catch-up on big consumer data, but the massive shift to digital...