DoorDash announced a new digital platform designed to highlight women-owned businesses on its platform, called Made by Women, along with a new partnership with ESPN commentator and two-time WNBA All-Star and Los Angeles Sparks forward Chiney Ogwumike.
According to a new privacy report, national food delivery apps like Grubhub and Uber Eats are some of the most aggressive data collectors and are especially willing to share or sell that customer data to third parties. The report comes from pCloud, a private backup and encrypted data warehousing company. It ranks various companies on how much data they collect and how much they share with other companies. Atop both lists, of course, are social media companies like Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. Third-party delivery providers come in fourth on both […]
The “dudes” in Florida are getting a nice windfall from Waitr. Publicly traded Waitr, which is based in Louisiana, announced it has entered an asset purchase agreement with Delivery Dudes. Waitr, the third-party delivery platform with a focus on smaller markets, said the transaction could close within the next week. CEO Carl Grimstad said it’s a good extension for Waitr to the Florida trade area with a well-loved brand. “Delivery Dudes affords us the opportunity to further expand our footprint in the Florida delivery marketplace,” said Grimstad in a release […]
Denny’s (Nasdaq: DENN) is on track to be a virtual restaurant leader as it rolls out two delivery-only concepts to almost its entire network of 1,700 restaurants across the country. CEO John Miller said in a recent earnings call and appearance at the ICR Conference that the brand was rolling out two concepts: The Burger Den and The Meltdown. “The first of these is called The Burger Den,” said Miller. “This concept allows us to focus on one of our strengths, great burgers with new varieties using ingredients already in […]
Deliveroo, one of Europe’s largest restaurant-delivery services and one which is backed by an investment from Amazon, announced plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange in a listing that could value the British food-delivery firm at around $7 billion and mark the biggest new share issue in Britain in three years.
Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen is the latest celebrity-backed virtual restaurant from Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC), and since its rollout in early 2021, Flavortown Kitchen is already up to approximately 160 locations.
Albertsons Companies has partnered with Tortoise, an automated logistics company focused on last-mile solutions, to pilot its remote-controlled, zero-emission delivery cart in Northern California.
Dragontail Systems, a restaurant technology and software provider, has teamed up with Valqari, a Chicago-based drone delivery startup, to use autonomous drones to drop orders at remote landing zones.
Point-of-sale provider ParTech has added functionality for Lunchbox, a fast-growing provider of restaurant delivery integration and marketing software, into its Brink POS platform.
Frato’s Pizza & Catering in Chicago, isn’t just experimenting with direct sales and virtual concepts to survive the pandemic. It’s also with culinary students to provide real-world experience that’s not part of most culinary coursework, including creating virtual brands.
