I’m a sucker for year-end lists, and Bite Squad has fueled my fire with its most popular restaurant delivery picks of 2018, both for the country as a whole and for a good number of the recently acquired brand’s top markets. The top four picks, wings, burgers, pizza and burritos are no surprise, but the list gets more interesting after that.
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The name itself piques interest: Viddl-It. Wayback Burgers’ new electric vehicle initiative, Viddl-It combines the on-site cooking of food trucks with on-demand delivery technology to ultimately bring consumers a better product.
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With mall and hotel kiosks, packaged goods on store shelves and drive-thrus all over, you might feel like Starbucks is everywhere, but a new delivery partnership with UberEats means that coffee call may soon be coming from inside your house.
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Cruise Automation a subsidiary of General Motors, and DoorDash announced a new partnership to test restaurant and grocery delivery via Cruise’s autonomous vehicles through the DoorDash platform.
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Getting inebriated at home is about to become even easier with news that Pizza Hut is boosting its beer delivery pilot to a second round of states equating to nearly 300 restaurants across Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina and Ohio—with additional locations across California and Arizona coming online by the middle of this month. The rollout is a brand priority, with Pizza Hut aiming to grow beer delivery to 1,000 restaurants by summer of 2019. The announcement was intentionally timed ahead of Super Bowl LIII, one of the busiest days […]
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U.S. consumers are predicted to continue migrating online for grocery shopping, with a new study suggesting online grocery sales will expand an additional 15% during 2019, increasing the overall share captured online in 2019 to 6.3%; however, providers that offer delivery and pickup are expected to grow their online sales between 25% and 30%, according to grocery research firm, Brick Meets Click. Although the forecast indicates that a larger share of online spending for groceries will shift toward the brick-and-mortar retailers offering these services, the gains will not be evenly […]
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Target’s Drive Up is sticky, using the parlance of our times. Having recently sworn off big-box grocery visits in favor of delivery or curbside pickup, skipping the hassles and time-sucks of Target for this mid-thirties yuppie is a worthy life upgrade. I may even bring my dog with me next time.
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Grubhub has unveiled its annual most-popular food rankings, and there have been some big shifts in what people want to order. Among the top 10, bean burritos have unseated the king of delivery last year: poke. In 2017, the raw fish and rice dish show up 643 percent. Burritos, however, rocketed up from No. 7 fastest grower to take the No. 1 spot. Why? Burritos travel really well, heck they might be better after all those beans and cheese get to know each other. Poke fans, don’t worry, it’s still […]
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Swiggy has just earned the title of most-raised in a single round for the food-delivery industry. The app-powered food-delivery service based in India just completed a series H round, bringing in $1 billion. Naspers, a South African investment giant, led the round and was joined by Tencent, Hillhouse Capital, Wellington Management Company and a handful of others. Swiggy claims to service 120,000 restaurants in more than 60 cities across India. By comparison, Grhubhub services more than 95,000 restaurants in 1,700 U.S. cities, with a valuation of $2.7 billion as a […]
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We don’t know how chain restaurants will fare in the coming year, but there’s no doubt that delivery will continue to be a significant portion of earnings calls in the 12 months to come. Looking at my own life, it’s safe to say I’ll be busy trying to keep up, which will likely push me right into the warm, comfortable hands of delivery brands willing to make my life a little easier, even if it comes at the expense of war-weary restaurant execs.
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