Chipotle announced a minority investment in Brassica, a Mediterranean fast-casual restaurant concept and Lumachain, an artificial intelligence supply chain platform, as part of its $100 million Cultivate Next venture fund. Lumachain is an Australian-based, minority,...
Picture this: your meal delivery arrives within minutes, descending from the sky right into your backyard. Thanks, flying delivery person! Just kidding—it’s just a drone. What once seemed like a futuristic dream is now a reality, and it’s poised to grow even more,...
Toast, the do-it-all technology platform, aspires to have an Adam Smith influence on restaurants. It provides the tech, it stays in the background, it guides with an invisible hand. With its new fall product release, which includes a branded-mobile app and...
Vanderbilt may have defeated top-ranked Alabama but the biggest college-football news of the last week might be that DoorDash and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen are suiting up to bring Popeyes wings to fans with a traveling wing truck. Pigskin enthusiasts can enter for a...
In 1999, two Taco Bell operators, fed up with endless reports, begged their bosses at their parent company, Border Foods, for a better way to analyze their data. Tech wizards inside the company developed Delaget, a software reporting solution, which proved so useful...
Austin, Texas, is known for many things: great music, tasty barbecue, bats under bridges. And soon, Uber Eats meals delivered by sidewalk robots. Uber and Austin-based robot and autonomous vehicle manufacturer Avride announced a multiyear partnership for delivery...
There’s no evidence that the folks at Piada Italian Street Food have anything against Benjamin Franklin but they are saying that its uniform $5 loyalty reward had run its course. “After listening to guests, we decided it made sense to switch to a new points program...
DoorDash recently released findings exploring how online grocery is making a big difference for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) recipients in the U.S. According to a survey of over 2,400 SNAP recipients, 78 percent prefer using their benefits for...
HungryPanda, an Asian food delivery platform, just snagged $55 million in funding, led by Mars Growth Capital. This will help the company ramp up its presence in the U.S. and explore options to serve more diverse communities across North America. Launched in 2017,...
Another Broken Egg Café is renowned for doing wonders with egg dishes, such as omelets and scramblers. I mean egg is right in its title. But this morning it announced six new lunch offerings, including a chicken-salad sandwich, blackened shrimp salad and Louisiana...
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