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Loyalty Is a Tool With Many Dimensions and Infinite Upside
Blaze Pizza, Kahala Brands, and Cooper’s Hawk share their secrets for locking in long-term customers.
GoTo Foods Launches Drone Delivery with DoorDash
Customers in Frisco, Fort Worth, and Plano TX can now have meals from GoTo Foods brands delivered straight from the sky.
Gopuff Goes Big With Disney Partnership
The instant-commerce giant makes it easy for streamers to order snacks and not miss a frame.
Orbital Kitchens Is a Delivery-Only Multi-Brand Concept About To Go National
It aspires to be the Amazon of meal delivery and it’s not stopping there.
Wonder Acquires Grubhub for $650 Million
Marc Lore’s Wonder has purchased Grubhub, with the deal set to close in Q1 2025, aiming to create a “super app” for meal-time services.
Texas Roadhouse Looks To Chick-fil-A For Reconciliation Insights
It’s part of its drive to add third-party delivery widely in 2025.
Fast-Casual Brands Should Be Ready to Adapt, Say Qdoba, Portillo’s Executives
The brands discuss adapting to trends with new technology and creative social media marketing at the Restaurant finance and Development Conference.
Applebee’s and IHOP Open First Duel-Branded Location in U.S.
It will combine IHOP’s breakfast and Applebee’s lunch and dinner, with a drive-thru for takeout.
Chef Robotics Prepares To Wheel Into Ghost Kitchens
Chef Robotics has made inroads in large commercial kitchens. Now it’s looking at new spaces.
Meet the Robots Serving Students at the University of Minnesota
The university launched autonomous robot food deliveries on campus —a first for Minnesota—and we went to check it out.
LAUNCH Incubator Opens Doors in Cloud Kitchen Space
It’s offering $100,000 for 10 percent of up to 10 companies, plus 14 weeks of training and mentorship.
DoorDash Partners With Lyft On Discounts and Upgrades
Not only will consumers receive savings, they will receive a nightlife report.
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Finance
Instacart Slashes Valuation with Employees Top of Mind
Instacart made some finance news when it voluntarily slashed its valuation by almost 40 percent, from nearly $40 billion to $24 billion. That seems quite bad at first blush, but the valuation dip offers a window into the mismatch between venture capital valuations and...
Research
Digital Kitchen Is Chipotle’s ‘Superpower’
Chipotle “just blew by a billion in digital sales,” noted Food On Demand News Editor Nick Upton. And so began his conversation with Nicole West, Chipotle’s VP of digital strategy and product management, who’s been with the brand for 14 years and helped form its...
The Deliverers
Uber Acquires Taiwan’s Foodpanda Delivery Biz for $950 Million
Uber Eats has eyes set on growth overseas, announcing last week that it’s scooping up Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda business in Taiwan.
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Vayu Robotics Builds a Human
Vayu Robotics has unveiled a delivery robot that can communicate using natural language. This is a first.