Woflow, a data infrastructure company behind some of the highest growth online ordering and food delivery platforms, has raised $3.5M in seed funding to launch what it calls the world’s first Merchant Data Platform.
Pizza Hut President Kevin Hochman said the brand is reclaiming its reputation for culinary innovation and retooling its business for a permanently larger percentage of off-premises sales.
Ordermark CEO Alex Canter and Lunchbox CTO Andrew Boryk joined Tom Kaiser for an update on digital ordering after years of massive changes in the restaurant scene.
DoorDash announced that it will begin facilitating same-day delivery of COVID-19 PCR test collection kits across the U.S through partnerships with Vault Health and Everlywell, two digital health companies.
Restaurant Revolution Technologies has added direct ordering capability through Google Search and Google Maps. Through the Washington-based company’s digital ordering platform, Order One, its supported restaurants will soon see an “Order Online” button appear on their business profile on Google.
For a lot of casual-dining brands, virtual brands have a temporary air. The dozens of wing concepts seem likely to fade away as soon as dine-in traffic resumes. Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings, however, is just getting started. One of the first big-name virtual brands, which was spun out of the Chuck E. Cheese franchise, is planning to remain long after kids and families are back in the restaurants, racking up tickets and guzzling soda and pizza. Sherri Landry, CMO at CEC Entertainment and parent of Chuck E. Cheese, Peter Piper […]
When everything shut down, Boston College had to quickly rethink foodservice to ensure a safe way to provide staff and students with food. They looked to an automated food locker and jumped headfirst into the tricky process of off-premises technology innovation. The popular Hillside Café in the heart of campus served around 8,000 people a day, but it simply wasn’t large enough to do social distancing. When COVID-19 hit, Megan O’Neill, associate director of restaurant operations for the college, said it wasn’t safe to open when students returned for class. […]
Olo, the multifaceted ordering and logistics platform for enterprise restaurants, reached a new milestone on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The company went public with an 18 million-share offering. The stock began trading at $32, a more than 20-percent premium over the originally expected price of $25. That put its market capitalization at $410 million and sent the company’s valuation to a staggering $4.5 billion. From the floor of the NYSE, founder and CEO Noah Glass told Food On Demand that, while the money is nice, there’s […]
Through partnerships with Chicagoland chefs Fabio Vivani and Rick Tramonto, Foodhaul is a new company that’s looking to bring upscale food to underutilized restaurant and hospitality kitchens across the Upper Midwest and beyond with a new spin on the virtual restaurant model.
The ongoing growth streak in online grocery orders hit a bump in the aisle during February with sales dropping 14 percent compared to the previous month according to a joint consumer survey by Brick Meets Click and Mercatus.
