Dream Dinners has expanded its meal kit home delivery program as it also gets a new franchising program off the ground.
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Perkins created a virtual restaurant for its bakery items that is increasing pastry and pie sales 10 to 20 percent .
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Waitr has acquired three payment processing companies its CEO said are critical to the company’s future growth.
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Sous Vide Kitchen is opening a new virtual, three-concept food hall at New York City’s Fordham University in The Bronx.
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Uber is set to sell its ownership stake in a handful of joint ventures with Russian Internet giant Yandex. According to a release from Yandex, Uber’s board approved the sale of shares in Yandex.Eats, Yandex.Lavka and Yandex.Delivery. Uber is set to sell 33.5-percent stake in the grocery delivery service, the hyper-local convenience delivery program the company’s last-mile logistics solution respectively. Uber will also sell its 18.2 percent stake in the Yandex Self-Driving Group which has been developing self-driving vehicles and currently has 170 cars in operation with more than 8 […]
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El Pollo Loco is set to be the first quick-service restaurant to test drone delivery in the U.S. The “LA Mex” brand will test the capabilities in 10 Southern California locations. It’s partnered with drone operator Flytrex to do the flying, which also helped 7-Eleven with its own drone test. One early learning was around packaging that will hold up against not sitting in a climate-controlled car but flying through the air in what is essentially a box with propellers. That meant higher-grade packaging, and El Pollo Loco announced new […]
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Toast, the unicorn point of sale provider, has filed to go public. According to SEC documents, the company has grown to just short 48,000 restaurant partners and saw $23.4 billion flow through its system in the six months ending with June, 30 2021. That puts the company on track for an annual gross processing volume (GPV) of more than $46 billion, up 17 percent year over year. That was one insight from the company’s S-1, the initial document that companies file prior to going public, but there were a lot […]
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The network of 100 NASCAR branded virtual restaurants was designed to get racing fans their favorite track snacks at home, but the speed by which the mega brand did so is as thrilling as the last lap of Daytona. Dubbed NASCAR Refuel, the new app and food-delivery portal offers up some of the same food made famous by racetracks. As we previously covered, it’s a lot of hotdogs, burgers and fried-food favorites. But in the pits, how the new brand came to be has some interesting lessons for other mega […]
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We asked one of the first restaurants using the new DoorDash Kitchens Full Service what it’s like to hand over the keys to their brand to the platform’s new army of chefs.
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Wing, Alphabet’s drone subsidiary, surpassed the 100,000-customer delivery mark in recent days, following years of test deliveries.
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