Bite Squad, a seven-year-old, third-party restaurant delivery service based in Minneapolis, announced a massive 17-company acquisition that expands its footprint to more than 30 U.S. metro areas and vaults the company into one of the category’s largest brands.
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In the new deal, Amazon has partnered with Olo, integrating with Rails, Olo’s API that makes it easy for restaurants to list their menus on third-party marketplaces like Amazon Restaurant. Now, instead of kicking orders from the Prime portal to yet another tablet on the counter, it flows directly into the restaurant point-of-sale system—as long as the restaurant is an Olo partner.
Read MoreOrder Food Without Leaving Facebook Facebook announced it has partnered with third-party delivery services such as EatStreet, Delivery.com, DoorDash and ChowNow so users can order food without ever leaving the social media site. Facebook is also working directly with restaurants including Jack in the Box, Five Guys, Papa John’s, Panera and others; so users can browse restaurants in the “Order Food” section of the “Explore” menu. “People already go to Facebook to figure out what to eat by reading about nearby restaurants, and seeing what their friends say about them. […]
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Happy Halloween! – Is this the future of trick or treating?
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By Tom Kaiser It’s here, mass-market pizzas delivered by a fully autonomous car thanks to a home-state partnership between Domino’s and Ford. While it’s only up and running with one car in Ann Arbor, Michigan, it’s a significant mile marker for both the automotive and restaurant industries that are both undergoing epochal shifts as tech promises made decades ago finally come to reality A self-proclaimed auto enthusiast—like everybody else in Michigan—Domino’s EVP, Chief Information Officer Kevin Vasconi said the project is so enjoyable that he and others often find themselves […]
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After reading up on research, it might be easy to write off mail-order food completely as an expensive way to get sick. But while the industry as a whole has some work to do, the industry is completely safe when consumers and companies take a thoughtful approach to packing food for delivery by mail.
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Hallman’s findings came via in a wide-sweeping study of protein delivered to the home in a partnership with Tennessee State University. It included an elaborate protocol of unpacking, reading temperatures of the protein, box and coolant and examinations of air space and dunnage (the packing materials that reduce airspace).
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Editor’s note: This is a synopsis of Food on Demand’s second webinar. To download the webinar, go to www.foodondemandnews.com/webinar. By Laura Michaels If someone asked Mario Del Pero if third-party restaurant delivery is here to stay, the co-founder and CEO of the fast-casual Mendocino Farms would counter with his own question. “Is convenience a trend or a movement? Convenience is a movement,” said Del Pero with conviction. “Once people have tasted it—and now they’ve tasted it—it’s not going away.” Del Pero, who launched Mendocino Farms with wife Ellen Chen in […]
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By Nancy Weingartner Monroe This is a short story because I have a short attention span — and although I am not a millennial, I like to love new products and leave them. I fell in love with Daily Harvest’s cute website and offer of health. I liked that unlike Green Blender’s chop-and-blend proposition, all I had to do was add liquid, blend and go. The first week, I had one every morning. I even lost a pound. The second week, I drank three smoothies. I began to notice how […]
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In an effort to compete with Amazon, which is prepped to become a fierce competitor in the meal kit industry after its acquisition of Whole Foods in August, retailers are scrambling to add their own offerings through acquisitions and new product launches.
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