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JET Subsidiary SkipTheDishes To Launch Grocery Delivery Across Canada

By Arthur Robert | January 6, 2022

Meal delivery company SkipTheDishes announced Skip Express Lane, a grocery delivery service using dark stores to offer more than 1,500 grocery and everyday items in less than half an hour.

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Andrew Chen Examines the ‘Cold Start Problem’ for Platforms like Uber, Snackpass

By Nicholas Upton | January 6, 2022

How a smart idea gets initial traction is one of the most important moments in any business. It’s a confusing, inventive, fascinating period, and one Andrew Chen spends a lot of time thinking about. Chen is a partner at the exceptionally busy and successful investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, a.k.a. a16z. He just wrote a book on the topic titled The Cold Start Problem, which lays out how startups have cracked that code. He’s been out on the podcast and webinar circuit talking through the highlights of the book, and during […]

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TikTok to Monetize Viral Content Through VR Partnership

By Arthur Robert | January 6, 2022

TikTok is partnering with Robert Earl’s Virtual Dining Concepts to build TikTok Kitchen, a virtual restaurant brand dedicated to serving #foodtok’s favorite dishes.

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Half of U.S. Consumers Now Using Meal Delivery as Sales Grow

By Tom Kaiser | January 6, 2022

New research shows 50 percent of U.S. customers have now ordered from a meal delivery service, up from 44 percent a year ago.

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Reef Inks Partnership to Expand in Middle East, North Africa

By Tom Kaiser | January 6, 2022

Reef Kitchens partnered with Americana Group to open new ghost kitchen facilities in the Middle East and North Africa regions.

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White Rhino Raises Millions for L4 Autonomous Delivery

By Tom Kaiser | January 6, 2022

White Rhino, a Beijing-based autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer, has raised nearly $8 million through a recent Series A funding round.

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GM Shows off BrightDrop Delivery EVs at CES

By Tom Kaiser | January 6, 2022

GM showed off its BrightDrop delivery EVs at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, and announced big orders from FedEx and Walmart.

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Self-Driving Deliveries Rolled Closer to Reality in 2021

By Arthur Robert | December 30, 2021

As the food delivery business accelerated, so too did interest in autonomous deliveries. here’s a look at some of the the self-driving delivery tests that occurred in 2021.

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Sitka Salmon Shares on Building Sustainable Delivery Memberships

By Tom Kaiser | December 29, 2021

Delivering shipments of wild-caught fish from Alaska is a fundamentally different challenge than restaurant delivery, but it has similarly exploded in popularity.

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Moody’s Downgrades Grubhub

By Tom Kaiser | December 29, 2021

Moody’s downgraded its outlook for Grubhub while maintaining a stable outlook for the third-largest U.S. restaurant delivery provider.

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