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 […]
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 a fresh investment and two virtual restaurants, Mighty Quinn’s BBQ dreams of becoming the Shake Shack of slow-cooked meats.
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 has created a substitute for single-use plastics it is open sourcing in partnership with Solenis for food packaging and consumer packaged goods.
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 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 […]
The new director of takeout and delivery at The ONE Group (NASDAQ: STKS) has made a lot of changes in her first five months at the company. Known for the upscale STK Steakhouse, Kona Grill and a handful of elegant one- and two-location restaurants, off-premises operations were never a major focus. Few people order a $20 Caesar salad and $50 filet via DoorDash, and the brands are tailored for what STK calls “vibe dining.” The task for that director, Ariel Lofland, was to figure out how to pack up those […]
The sole public order integration and logistics company, Olo, announced substantial growth in its latest earnings and a deeper partnership with delivery platform Grubhub. Overall, the company (NYSE: OLO) beat analyst estimates on earnings and revenue in the second quarter, which the company announced on August 10. Total revenue was up 48 percent compared to the second quarter last year, landing at $35.9 million. Gross profit was near there at $28.5 million, up 42 percent. Operating income, however, dipped 7 percent to a loss of $2.4 million. In all, earnings […]
Food On Demand set out to quantify the cost difference between delivery and dine in at five independent restaurants.
