Starting a virtual concept can be somewhat daunting. Especially as the restaurant industry reopens, it’s yet another complex thing to worry about along with everything else. Three savvy virtual restaurant experts offered three key things to think about, as they shared during a Food On Demand virtual event titled Building Success with Ghost Kitchens & Virtual Restaurants. In a panel exploring what to think through when starting up a virtual concept, restauranteur and consultant Alistair Levine, Kitchen United Chief Business Officer Atul Sood and Flipdish North America President John DiLoreto […]
Startups like Food Rocket, which delivers bags of locally influenced groceries in just 10 minutes, have begun attracting investors in a bid to muscle past Instacart, Amazon and established grocers.
Dublin-based Camile Thai is entering the United States exclusively through Kitchen United ghost kitchen facilities, before building any brick-and-mortar locations.
Continuing its efforts to engage in open conversations with restaurant partners, DoorDash has appointed Stephanie Izard, chef and owner of Girl and the Goat, as its first chief restaurant advisor.
Even as the restaurant world reopens, consumers are sticking with their higher portion of delivery. That’s what keeps Park Tavern Executive Chef Colin Kohl boiling a big pot of water all day for delivery-only ramen even as the patio outside is “just bananas.” Kohl joined Park Tavern, a restaurant, bar and bowling alley in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, in the middle of 2020 just before the second shutdown. He came into an operation open to evolution, and ended up changing a lot of the recipes. The menu is now mostly […]
The endless scroll, it’s endemic on Netflix, Spotify and the delivery platforms. One app wants to get you off the thumb treadmill and back to your life, even if it’s just scrolling on Netflix again. Gimmie Food has a simple premise: you pay them $22 and they send you some food. What kind of food? Who’s bringing it? Don’t busy yourself with such trivialities. Just plug in your name, number, address, a credit card and get on with your day. The app works in Europe and the U.S. via Bolt […]
Square announced a new standalone subscription to its kitchen display system, signaling an expanding need for better in-kitchen delivery tools.
Virtual Kitchen Co., a company offering restaurants a network of satellite kitchens to reach takeout and delivery customers with minimal upfront investment, rebranded itself as All Day Kitchens after announcing a $20 million investment.
NASCAR Refuel, a new virtual restaurant from Virtual Dining Concepts, is bringing trackside favorites to the home while courting a new demographic for this fast-growing part of the industry.
Instacart has expanded its collaboration with 7-Eleven, the world’s largest convenience retailer, to nearly 4,000 new stores across the U.S.
