A compelling online presence is a must for restaurants today. With 90% of customers researching online before deciding where to dine, your restaurant’s web presence can be the difference between a bustling kitchen and a slow trickle of tickets. In fact, with an online ordering website for pickup and delivery, you can turn these website visitors into customers, making your website your most profitable ordering channel. Read on to discover valuable tips for building an online ordering website that’s functional, appealing, and profitable. Related posts: Four Focal Points to Build […]
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Reef Technologies and C3 are expanding their partnership to 800 ghost kitchens by 2025.
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DoorDash has agreed to acquire Wolt, a Helsinki-based delivery firm in an all-stock transaction valued at $8.1 billion.
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Differing opinions were on display as leaders in the restaurant tech space talked shop during Connecting the Dots on Digital Operations at FODC.
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Rapid grocery provider, Buyk, hired restaurant veteran James Walker as its new CEO.
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Uber Eats partnered with Serve Robotics to bring automated deliveries to customers in LA starting in early 2022.
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Inspire Brands unveiled plans for its first multi-brand ghost kitchen in its home city of Atlanta.
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Savvy operators may have a trickle or torrent of data coming in through increasingly digital restaurant sales and loyalty channels, and using that data to really drive performance is the next trick. How to get there was a key topic of a Food On Demand Conference panel titled “Capitalizing on the Newly Digitized Customer.” The panel was stacked with loyalty and data heavyweights including Zack Oates, CEO of Ovation; Niko Papademetriou, SVP sales at Qu; Mike Vichich, co-founder and CEO of Wisely; and Kinesh Patel, co-founder and CTO at SevenRooms. […]
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There’s another new robot kid on the block: Nommi, a fully autonomous robotic kitchen designed to make Michelin-star-quality meals for a fraction of the cost. The promise has grabbed some big attention from Michelin star- and James Beard-winning chef Masaharu Morimoto as well as hospitality guru Sam Nazarian’s C3. On the culinary side, Morimoto—one of the classic chefs from the campier era of competitive cooking television—is lending his culinary prowess in the form of recipes from his elevated Japanese restaurant Sa’Moto. The concept happens to be inside C3’s Citizens food […]
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“Attention is great. We have to be sure to be ready for that attention,” said Black & Mobile co-founder David Cabello, right, with Tom Kaiser, Editor of Food On Demand. David Cabello is co-founder with his twin brother of Black & Mobile, the first food delivery service catering exclusively to Black restaurant owners. He’s appeared in a video with Jay-Z, been featured in People and Fortune magazines, and even got a call from rapper Waka Flocka looking to invest. But he puts the attention in perspective. “You get an email […]
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