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NCR’s Hospitality on Regaining ‘Intimacy’ with Customers

By Tom Kaiser | August 26, 2021

NCR says it has regained that customer-centric focus and is positioned to outcompete the Toasts, Lightspeeds and Squares of the world.

C3 Lands Additional $10M Investment

By Tom Kaiser | August 26, 2021

Global food tech platform C3 announced a $10 million strategic investment from TriArtisan Capital Advisors and its investors.

Nextbite Launches Three Breakfast Concepts

By Tom Kaiser | August 26, 2021

Breakfast is becoming a bigger deal in the Nextbite universe, as the virtual restaurant provider launches three new delivery-only breakfast concepts.

Automated Pizza, Salads Creep Closer to Mainstream

By Nicholas Upton | August 25, 2021

In a flurry of robotic restaurant news, the potential for pizza or salads made by robots is creeping closer to Main Street. Automated pizza-making company Picnic just announced its devices are now available for commercial use. Piestro, another robotic pizza-making device, is partnering with pizza purveyor 800 Degrees. And Sweetgreen just announced it would acquire Boston-based food-automation company Spyce. Arguably the biggest news was Sweetgreen acquiring Spyce. The salad and bowl company is almost fully automated. The three-location concept is built around a large device that creates grain bowls and […]

Gig-Work Legal Shield Prop 22 Deemed ‘Unconstitutional’

By Nicholas Upton | August 25, 2021

The landmark Proposition 22 that carved out exceptions to California’s AB5 legislation has been deemed unconstitutional by a California judge. Under Proposition 22, which passed in November of 2020, delivery and driver gig workers did not fall under a test to determine independent contractor status outlined in Assembly Bill 5 (AB5). The three-part test, formally known as the ABC test, examined if the workers were free from company control, are not doing work central to the company’s business and have an independently established trade. Gig-employment companies said briefly attempted to […]

With New Cash, Mighty Quinn’s Aims to Be Shake Shack of BBQ

By Tom Kaiser | August 19, 2021

With a fresh investment and two virtual restaurants, Mighty Quinn’s BBQ dreams of becoming the Shake Shack of slow-cooked meats.

Native Delivery Pays Off According to Latest Delivery Study

By Tom Kaiser | August 19, 2021

A new consumer survey from SMG shows native delivery making inroads as 23 percent of U.S. consumers ordered food directly from restaurants with their own delivery platforms.

Zume Partners for Open-Source PFA-Free Food Packaging

By Tom Kaiser | August 19, 2021

Zume has created a substitute for single-use plastics it is open sourcing in partnership with Solenis for food packaging and consumer packaged goods.

JustKitchen Adds to Exec Team, Ghost Kitchen Lineup

By Tom Kaiser | August 19, 2021

JustKitchen added three new restaurants to its lineup of “app-to-door” brands and appointed a former Deliveroo executive as its new executive vice president of operations.

WoodSpoon Raises $14M, Raise Led by Restaurant Brands International

By Nicholas Upton | August 19, 2021

WoodSpoon announced another fundraise of $14 million with some interesting investors in the mix. The platform, on which home chefs can sell their food for delivery, just announced its latest raise and teased further expansion of the community-centric, two-sided marketplace. Founded in New York by co-founders, Oren Saar and Merav Rozengarten, who were missing their Israeli delicacies, Saar is now CEO and Rozengarten is now the company’s CMO. The pair launched the company in 2019 and it now caters to more than 8,000 users buying food from more than 100 […]