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Vromo Officially Integrates with Toast
Vromo, a delivery management system for restaurants, announced its integration on Toast.
DoorDash Adds More Grocers, Retail Chains to its Platform
DoorDash expanded its merchant mix with new grocers and retailers including Dick’s Sporting Goods and Big Lots.
Bikky Founder Details Data-Driven Mission After Seed Round
Food On Demand spoke with Bikky co-founder and CEO Abhinav Kapur shortly before announcing its recent, $5.25-million seed round.
France Moves to Restrict Delivery ‘Dark Stores’
France is reportedly taking steps to restrict where delivery “dark stores” can locate within cities.
Pizza Hut Boosting Beer Delivery Ahead of Super Bowl
Getting inebriated at home is about to become even easier with news that Pizza Hut is boosting its beer delivery pilot to a second round of states equating to nearly 300 restaurants across Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina and Ohio—with additional locations...
Online Grocery Sales Forecasted to Grow in ‘19
U.S. consumers are predicted to continue migrating online for grocery shopping, with a new study suggesting online grocery sales will expand an additional 15% during 2019, increasing the overall share captured online in 2019 to 6.3%; however, providers that offer...
Testing Target’s Drive-Up Delivery
Target’s Drive Up is sticky, using the parlance of our times. Having recently sworn off big-box grocery visits in favor of delivery or curbside pickup, skipping the hassles and time-sucks of Target for this mid-thirties yuppie is a worthy life upgrade. I may even bring my dog with me next time.
Grubhub Names Most Popular Delivery Food of 2018
Grubhub has unveiled its annual most-popular food rankings, and there have been some big shifts in what people want to order. Among the top 10, bean burritos have unseated the king of delivery last year: poke. In 2017, the raw fish and rice dish show up 643 percent....
Indian Delivery Startup Swiggy Raises Incredible $1 Billion
Swiggy has just earned the title of most-raised in a single round for the food-delivery industry. The app-powered food-delivery service based in India just completed a series H round, bringing in $1 billion. Naspers, a South African investment giant, led the round and...
Tough Restaurant Climate Bodes Well for Delivery
We don’t know how chain restaurants will fare in the coming year, but there’s no doubt that delivery will continue to be a significant portion of earnings calls in the 12 months to come. Looking at my own life, it’s safe to say I’ll be busy trying to keep up, which will likely push me right into the warm, comfortable hands of delivery brands willing to make my life a little easier, even if it comes at the expense of war-weary restaurant execs.
Hoping for Everything On Demand
I don’t think the general public realizes how many things are now available via delivery. I should know, because my inbox fills with pitches every single day. With this being the wish-iest time of the year, a few ideas come to mind about what should be the next big thing.
Olo CEO Says Delivery’s Incrementality Is Waning
Olo CEO Noah Glass said restaurants should expect deteriorating levels of incrementality, meaning that fewer truly new customers will be up for grabs in the coming year. The insight is part of the “Delivery Expert Series Volume VI” report from Cowen.
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The Deliverers
Marketing Your Restaurant on Third-Party Platforms
Third-party platforms bring plenty of new tools to the table, but industry leaders at FODC said fundamentals remain the most important.
Best Practices
What are your peers doing in delivery? Get some of the best practices out there.
Virtual Operator Stay’d Pushes Hospitality into Delivery
High-touch, hospitality-minded restaurant folks are more than ready to bring people back into restaurants. But the founders behind delivery-only virtual restaurant brand Stay'd are looking to bring some of that high-touch hospitality to the delivery experience....
