DoorDash and Payfare have announced the launch of the DasherDirect platform, a banking platform for DoorDash delivery drivers that includes mobile banking and prepaid Visa cards for its Dashers.
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The National Restaurant Association (NRA) and a group of third-party delivery providers came together on seven principles when it comes to public policy. While restaurants and third-party delivery have some natural tension in the relationship, they could agree on seven key things that would help both sides of the industry. Like so many things, the process of coming together was accelerated by the pandemic. “Even before the pandemic, delivery—and decisions related to delivery—had major impacts on restaurant operations,” said Mike Whatley, vice president for state and local affairs at the […]
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Restaurant merchants on the Square platform can now dispatch DoorDash delivery drivers for orders placed directly on their own websites through DoorDash Drive. This latest announcement comes after Square first announced on-demand delivery this past June.
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Hungr is a smaller delivery player going all in on sharing customer information with restaurants so they can fine-tune their operations and develop marketing campaigns to target the best users and neighborhoods for its restaurant merchants.
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With fewer big company catering orders between here and who knows when, ZeroCater is rolling out a new product for scalable catering. ZeroCater, a business-to-business catering company that aims to enhance company food programs with an AI food-recommendation engine, had to make some changes during COVID. As droves of office workers went home, the company was left without a lot of the ongoing corporate catering engagements, snack deliveries and big events typical for the company. For nearly every big tech office that dispersed into the proverbial winds, however, ZeroCater CEO […]
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Billed as an “on-demand craft food marketplace,” WoodSpoon has raised $2 million in seed funding to expand its operations. The company, which we profiled back in July, essentially connects customers to home chefs. It started because the two Israel-born co-founders were craving some good home cooking and saw an opportunity to carve out a niche in the growing delivery world as they started working on the app about two years ago. “We just missed our home food, the Middle Eastern dishes,” said co-founder and CMO Merav Rozengarten. “We thought to […]
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The new partnership between Jimmy John’s and DoorDash demonstrates that even with a “freaky fast” in-house delivery fleet that’s not going anywhere, there is immense power in the platform marketplace. Jimmy John’s and DoorDash announced the two had broken ground on the now-public delivery giant’s new program that allows restaurants to do their own delivery but tap into the DoorDash app. The sandwich maker was the first major brand to sign onto the service after testing the model in 100 restaurants for six months. According to the press release Inspire […]
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Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, parent company of Maggiano’s Little Italy and Shaw’s Crab House, among others, has launched a new virtual restaurant in partnership with Barilla, the world’s largest pasta producer. Available exclusively on Grubhub, Barilla Italian Pasteria offers pasta-based comfort foods delivered directly to consumers.
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One year after his “The Four Horsemen of the Delivery Apocalypse” lit up industry LinkedIn pages, Thanx CEO Zach Goldstein’s latest manifesto calls for further regulation of third-party delivery brands centered on data sharing and immediate financial relief for all of the restaurants trying to survive a monumentally challenging winter season.
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The Greene Turtle, a Maryland-based sports bar chain that saw its corporate headcount shrink from 700 to 30 during the pandemic, is rethinking a brand refresh that ready for primetime just as the COVID crisis hit the restaurant industry.
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