Ghost Financial will be the exclusive financial partner for Cruising Kitchens, a mobile ghost kitchen builder and food truck fabricator based in Texas.
Scores of restaurants and grocery offer up unused food for charity, but the last mile between those food retailers people who need it has historically been a wide gap. Even in areas like California or New York which have donation mandates for edible surplus food struggle to save that food from the landfill. Food Rescue Hero, a delivery platform founded in 2016 in Pittsburg, sought to tackled that last-mile challenge. Since then, the company has grown to 27 cities, 34,000 volunteer drivers and diverted 100 million pounds of food from […]
Before drones are flying around our burritos, prescriptions and maybe giving us a quote on roof repair, we’re going to need some infrastructure to enable this transformation. Even though the Federal Aviation Administration is going to take some time to allow drone delivery across the country, there are a handful of companies building out the nuts and bolts that will be necessary to get there. In a report from consultancy giant McKinsey, there are a lot of complex software needs, algorithms and routing plans that will ensure safe drone delivery, […]
According to new data, Gopuff is seeing strong U.S. sales grow along and an expanding customer base.
Germany-based Delivery Hero and Spanish majority-owned subsidiary Glovo are under investigation for potential anti-competitive practices by European Union regulators. The European Commission announced that both companies were the target of “unannounced inspections” i.e., raids. “The commission has concerns that the companies concerned may have violated Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which prohibits cartels and restrictive business practices,” read the release. Article 101 is relatively broad, but the raids were focused on concerns around an “alleged agreement or concerted practice to share national markets.” […]
As the labor crunch persists, restaurants, retailers and delivery providers are using new services to speed payments to boost employee attraction and retention.
Three months after Just Eat Takeaway put Grubhub up for sale, Amazon announced it’s giving a free year of Grubhub+ to its Prime members.
Sauce is a tech startup urging restaurants to take a cue from the hotel, airline and car rental industries with dynamic pricing.
Biscuit Bar co-CEO Janie Burkett shared what it took to wrangle her high-volume delivery business and land on numerous best-of lists. First, have really, absurdly good food. “The HOSS, it’s the biscuit that started the whole thing. It’s a biscuit topped with buttermilk fried chicken, gravy, jack cheese and honey butter,” said Burkett. “The HOSS is my dad, that’s what our kids called him. Unfortunately, he passed a few months before our first store opened, but it’s our No. 1-selling biscuit, my dad’s legend lives on in biscuit form.” Her […]
Mail-delivery health-food giant Daily Harvest is in the midst of an ugly foodborne illness issue. The first of more than 450 sickened customers has sued the company after being hospitalized and having her gallbladder removed, but the true cause remains unclear. According to a recent update from the company, testing and investigations have not yet produced any clarity. In an update on June 27, CEO Rachel Drori said, “We have spent the past ten days working with the FDA, state agencies and multiple independent labs, as well as experts in […]
