New York City Council passed a raft of bills last week that would significantly alter the relationship between NYC restaurants and third-party delivery services.
Costco has begun a pilot project at 25 locations across the state of Texas for delivery “within hours, if not minutes” through Uber and Uber Eats.
Gopuff is pushing beyond convenience items with a growing number of hyper-efficient ghost kitchens. With its latest program focused on prepared foods, the speedy C-store disruptor is becoming the digital equivalent of a corner mart or bodega with a tiny kitchen in the corner. Gopuff Kitchen builds on the functionality of Bandit, a ghost coffee shop in Austin, and the company has already served “hundreds of thousands” of meals through the platform in Austin, Miami, Nashville and Philadelphia. “Gopuff acquired Bandit, the first mobile-only coffee shop, late last year,” said […]
Hospitality tech upstart Bbot grabbed another $15 million from investors, reaching more than $22 million raised so far. With this latest tranche, the company said it will “focus on features for food halls and virtual brands,” according to the release announcing the Series A round. The New York-based company is mostly focused on in-house digital ordering via QR codes, but also helps restaurants create ordering websites and integrate with third-party delivery providers, and also helps hotel partners build digital room service programs. Altogether, that’s a lot of different directions for […]
DoorDash Kitchens Full Service gives restaurants the ability to go into ghost kitchens by fully outsourcing the operations, fulfillment and cooking to DoorDash.
Genguis Grill partnered with Qu’s point-of-sale platform to create efficiencies used to scale up its Stir Fry Chef virtual restaurant concept.
Delivery Hero has partnered with sustainable packaging manufacturer Eco-Products to provide restaurants with Earth-friendly packaging to reduce plastic waste and carbon emissions.
With a new partnership between Uber and FTD, customers in many of the largest U.S. cities will now be able to order delivered floral arrangements through the Uber and Uber Eats apps.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, scores of restaurant companies struggled to be a part of wildly fluctuating consumer desires. Goodcents, known mostly as a fast-casual sub shop, kicked off Goodcents To-Go early in 2020, with the exceptional chance to meet the new pandemic habits. The brand had tested a to-go meal program back in 2017, but it didn’t stick around. The pandemic served as a great reason to relaunch the program, especially with scores of restaurants closed. CEO Farrellynn Wolf said the meals are simple, just microwave for a few […]
Zume secured $122 million to build the world’s first compostable packaging factory powered entirely by renewable energy.
