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What to Consider When Growing Your Brand via Ghost and Virtual

By Callie Evergreen | June 17, 2021

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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Delivery Analysts Project Pandemic Habits Are Hanging On

By Arthur Robert | June 17, 2021

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, Donatos Pizza Scale Up a Non-Traditional Partnership

By Tom Kaiser | June 17, 2021

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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Hello Fresh Up, Blue Apron Down as Restaurants Reopen

By Tom Kaiser | June 17, 2021

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 Becomes Chowly’s Exclusive Virtual Restaurant Partner

By Tom Kaiser | June 17, 2021

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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Just Eat Takeaway Completes Grubhub Acquisition, Adam DeWitt is New CEO

By Tom Kaiser | June 16, 2021

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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Refraction AI Bots Roll into Austin

By Nicholas Upton | June 16, 2021

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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Novel Ghost Operator JustKitchen Set to Land in U.S.

By Nicholas Upton | June 16, 2021

JustKitchen is riding a wave of investment and success in Asian markets into the frothy waters of U.S. ghost kitchen industry. The company just raised $24 million for several international expansion projects that also include Singapore and the Philippines. The key ingredient for the company is a “hub-and-spoke” model by which core ingredients are made at a central processing hub and the “spoke” locations handle the perishable things like cooking pasta or rice, preparing vegetables and putting it all together. The goal is to build multiple small locations (1,500 to […]

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Beyond Reservations, Wisely Focuses on Lifetime Loyalty

By Tom Kaiser | June 10, 2021

Wisely is a waitlist platform that helps restaurants unlock customer lifetime value, which helps CFOs make tough decisions as the industry faces increased competition and strained financial resources.

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Skipping the Mortar Model, Star Naidu Opens Khana Americana Ghost Kitchen

By Emili Raeder | June 10, 2021

At first glance, it might appear Star Naidu is launching her Khana Americana restaurant backwards. The first-time restaurateur skipped the brick-and-mortar model and started her Indian-American concept as a ghost kitchen in Atlanta.

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