Back in November when I reported for Food On Demand about McDonald’s planned delivery expansion with UberEats, I wrote, only slightly tongue-in-cheek, that the move would allow more people to get the chain’s cheap eats without interrupting their Netflix binge. Now, reading The NPD Group’s 2018 outlook for the foodservice industry, I’m convinced that scenario was right on.
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Convenience stores might be about to get a whole lot more convenient with the announcement of Robomart, a c-store on wheels that brings groceries, baked goods and prepared foods right to your front door.
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Smart tablets are hitting their stride: replacing laptops for the younger generations, being reconfigured into kitchen appliances (part exhaust hood, part family communication vehicle), advertising the freshness of fast food at fast-casual counters and supplying recipes and shopping lists at produce, meat and cheese counters.
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Uber announced that the ridesharing company has partnered with Nvidia for further development of the AI computing system in its fleet of self-driving vehicles.
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Grubhub ranks what we ate in 2017, plus news on 7-Eleven joining the delivery game.
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By Tom Kaiser Pizza Hut delivered a surprise at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show with the announcement that the pizza delivery giant has partnered with Toyota on the development of fully autonomous delivery vehicles. Toyota unveiled designs of a self-driving concept vehicle called e-Palette at the show in Las Vegas. Pizza Hut is one of the founding members of a new “mobility service business alliance” that also includes Amazon, Didi, Mazda and Uber. The announcement follows a number of initiatives from Pizza Hut to improve the delivery experience, including […]
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After eight years as Domino’s president and CEO where he oversaw massive sales growth that brought the Michigan-based global pizza giant over the $10 billion mark in annual revenue, Patrick Doyle announced he is leaving the company June 30.
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Florida-based BurgerFi is the first major national restaurant brand to announce tamper-proof packaging for the food that leaves its locations through take-out and third-party vendors.
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In a research project sponsored Food On Demand, the study is the first of its kind to take a close look at the leaders in third-party delivery, with an army of 1,400 mystery shoppers across the country. SeeLevel also conducted a large consumer survey to see how users of third-party delivery engaged with those delivery providers.
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The COO of Grubhub, which provides third-party delivery services in more than 800 cities, was joined by Matt Tucker, COO of online ordering and delivery platform Olo, and Mike Church, managing director at Deloitte Consulting, for a discussion at the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference in Las Vegas November 13-15 about using delivery to drive revenue and demand.
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