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Report Reveals How QSRs Can Create Marketing in the Moment With AI
Nearly 70 percent of QSR sales nationwide take place in drive-thrus, and thanks to new technology, marketers see a way to connect with customers like never before.
Local Kitchens Raises Another $40 Million. Can It Go National?
Local Kitchens is planning to go big with its new haul.
Level Up Your Loyalty, Exploring Gamification in Restaurants
A look at gamification in the metaverse for restaurants and its potential to revolutionize the loyalty system.
Catering Is Back. But Now It’s Different.
Catering is booming but that doesn’t mean the lane is easy sailing for restaurants. Far from it. There are new rules.
Standing Among Giants, Chowly Scales Up
After acquiring Koala, Chowly CEO Sterling Douglass is focused on bringing better tech to SMB restaurants.
Study Finds Grocery Delivery Less Sustainable than In-Store Shopping
New research examines the impact, energy use, emissions, and traffic congestion of grocery delivery and whether there may be a better way to manage and optimize deliveries.
Grubhub Relaunches its Grubhub+ Subscription Plan
Grubhub has relaunched its Grubhub+ subscription program that brings new features and additional ways for members to save on deliveries.
New York City Clamps Down on Takeout, Delivery, Single-Use Plastic
New York City’s “Skip the Stuff” bill will prohibit restaurants from providing plastic utensils, condiment packets, extra containers or napkins for takeout or delivery.
DoorDash Debuts Self-Serve Integration Onboarding Capabilities
DoorDash has expanded its partnerships with itsaCheckmate and Deliverect, enabling restaurants to onboard to its marketplace directly from their point-of-sale systems.
Donatos Looks to New Markets with Autonomous Pizza Vending Machine
Donatos teams with Appetronix in developing an autonomous pizza machine to serve high-traffic areas from campuses to hospitals.
Kristen Barnett Blends Culinary Talent with Experiential Marketing
Hungry House founder Kristen Barnett is moving from her “anti-ghost kitchen” concept to something entirely new, but still largely focused on food influencers.
Restaurants Turn to New Prototypes to Stay Competitive and Drive Sales
Mooyah Burgers, Shakes and Fries is hard at work putting together new prototype restaurants with smaller dining spaces, updated tech and drive-thrus.
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Reef Acquires 2ndKitchen to Serve New Venues
Ordering dinner at a brewery, hotel or venue from Reef ghost kitchen is not exactly hard. You head to a delivery platform, order your meal and wait for the driver. But the acquisition of 2ndKitchen promises to make it even easier. 2ndKitchen was founded three years...
Research
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...
The Deliverers
DoorDash Looks to Expand Grocery in 2024
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu says the two largest areas of investment is penetration outside of restaurants and the U.S.
Best Practices
What are your peers doing in delivery? Get some of the best practices out there.
Remy Robotics CEO Talks “Robot-Ran” Restaurant Concept in NYC
Remy Robotics launches ‘Better Days” a fully autonomous, health conscious restaurant brand for takeout and delivery.