Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen is the latest celebrity-backed virtual restaurant from Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC), and since its rollout in early 2021, Flavortown Kitchen is already up to approximately 160 locations.
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Albertsons Companies has partnered with Tortoise, an automated logistics company focused on last-mile solutions, to pilot its remote-controlled, zero-emission delivery cart in Northern California.
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Dragontail Systems, a restaurant technology and software provider, has teamed up with Valqari, a Chicago-based drone delivery startup, to use autonomous drones to drop orders at remote landing zones.
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Point-of-sale provider ParTech has added functionality for Lunchbox, a fast-growing provider of restaurant delivery integration and marketing software, into its Brink POS platform.
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Frato’s Pizza & Catering in Chicago, isn’t just experimenting with direct sales and virtual concepts to survive the pandemic. It’s also with culinary students to provide real-world experience that’s not part of most culinary coursework, including creating virtual brands.
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Less than three months after Uber finalized its deal to acquire Postmates, the combined entity is spinning off Postmates’ robotics division as an independent company, now called Serve Robotics. Along with that announcement came word that Serve Robotics closed its first round of funding, led by venture capital firm Neo with participation by Uber and other investors.
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Hungr, a San Diego-based order management and restaurant-delivery service, is the latest company striding into the virtual restaurant space with its new offering, Hungr Kitchen, which is launching with a stable of eight delivery-only brands aimed at existing restaurant spaces.
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Instacart raised another $265 million from investors, sending the grocery delivery company’s valuation to just shy of $39 billion. This represents the fourth raise during the pandemic and doubles the valuation for the second time in the last year. The company raised $225 million in June of 2020, $100 million in July and $200 million in October. The latest raise brings the grand total to $790 million raised over the last year and pushed company valuation from about $8 billion to $38.7 billion in that same timeframe. It’s an exceptional […]
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Point of sale and payment gateway Square released a pair of surveys exploring the future of the restaurant industry in the minds of restaurant operators and consumers. The company partnered with Wakefield Research to question 500 restaurant owners and 1,000 consumers about the future of restaurants in the U.S. No surprise, there were a lot of COVID-era questions and responses in the survey, but there were also plenty of notable trends to watch for as things get back to normal through 2021. Among the most interesting results from restaurant operators […]
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Black and Mobile is a fast-growing restaurant delivery provider punching above its weight class following a year where both the pandemic and social unrest put a national focus on elevating Black-owned businesses. Founded by twin brothers in their early 20s, the company is moving beyond its East Coast roots into other major U.S. cities.
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