C3’s newest culinary community now comes with an app focused on generating first-party orders.
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Miso Robotics is bringing another automated tool to the kitchen, an automated beverage dispenser. The maker of the automated Flippy robotic arm, which can make burgers or operate a fryer, has partnered with Lancer Worldwide, a manufacturer in the beverage space. Lancer developed the beverage dispenser that plugs into the overall Miso system dubbed RaaS or robotics as a service. According to a press release, the system will integrate with Miso’s end-to-end solution to pull drink orders directly from in-house or digital points of sale, fulfill the beverage order, cover […]
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Self-delivery at any meaningful scale tends to get written off as too complicated or too expensive. Restaurants need to figure out insurance, the technology to route drivers, more technology to make sense of the in-restaurant operations, and then they have to hire drivers. In short, it’s a lot. But it’s getting easier, as Ido Levanon, CEO of Dragontail Systems says. “Most of the mom-and-pops use third-party, they didn’t even think of self-delivery, they didn’t want to get into these logistics,” said Levanon. “COVID pushed many to think about it.” Up […]
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Three experts with different backgrounds talked strategy and using limited resources wisely during Food On Demand virtual event Building Success with Ghost Kitchens & Virtual Restaurants.
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If delivery platforms can hold onto their intra-pandemic market share, as the report suggests, the delivery sector will grow significantly in 2021.
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Red Robin bringing Donatos Pizza into its kitchens to expand its delivery and dine-in offerings has proven to be a big hit.
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Fortunes are diverging among the largest meal kit providers, Blue Apron and Hello Fresh, as the meal kit industry wonders what consumer habits will stick after the pandemic.
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C3 announced a new partnership with Chowly to become its exclusive virtual restaurant partner bringing 40 digital brands to integration company’s clients.
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Amsterdam-based Just Eat Takeaway.com completed its acquisition of Grubhub representing its entry into the U.S. food delivery market.
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Pizza fans in in Austin can now get their pies delivered by Refraction AI’s bike-lane robots. A fleet 10 REV-1 bots are making deliveries for Austin institution Southside Flying Pizza. Customers in three Austin neighborhoods can place orders with the restaurant and meet the bot at their curb as of this week. The robots, as Food On Demand has previously covered, stand nearly 5 feet tall and can drive in the road or, preferably, in a bike lane. They can reach speeds of up to 15 miles per hour. The […]
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