NYC’s decision to make permanent a 20-percent fee cap on meal delivery is “nothing more than unconstitutional, harmful, and unnecessary government overreach,” says a complaint filed jointly by DoorDash, UberEats and Grubhub.
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Coaster Cycles is working behind the scenes to provide perfectly sized electric trikes for delivery of meals, groceries and retail goods.
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Reef has signed a deal with one of Europe’s largest parking operators to turn as many as 1,500 existing parking facilities into distribution and logistics hubs.
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Two of the biggest names in the customer experience and retention categories—Tattle and Thanx—have teamed up through a new partnership.
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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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