Meal kits is a tough business, just look at the recent news around Blue Apron, the stock is tanking and one stock watcher says there’s “no surviving” the crowded market which now counts Walmart and Weight Watchers as new entrants. That may be overblown, especially in this red-hot consolidation cycle, but there’s no denying that meal kits are walled in by some tricky competition and more than 100 years of consumer grocery-shopping habits. To build out its niche and avoid looking like Blue Apron—and hopefully avoiding its same fate—Snap Kitchen […]
Read MoreBulkbox Aims for Affordable Bulk Food Delivery Seeking to make organic, healthy foods accessible and affordable to more households, Bulkbox Foods launched this month, working directly with farmers to provide organic produce and grass-fed meats straight to the consumer. To offer what it says in the most cost-effective price, Bulkbox Foods doesn’t further process any of its products and is not a meal kit service. The Los Angeles-based company, co-founded by Bridgette and Tyson Blackney, also uses 100% recyclable packaging. Bulkbox customers choose one 3.5-5.5 pound whole piece of meat […]
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Amazon is going low-tech and a bit retro with its Treasure Truck, the online retailers’ version of deals on wheels, that is now coming to a Whole Foods parking lot near you. The first Treasure Truck deal was the hot-selling Instant Pot, according to the Tech Crunch website.
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We’re ready to take it to the streets.
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From the department of zany patents…
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Convenience continues to prevail.
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Delivery dinners are pretty forgiving. When the fries come a little soggy or the salad has been a little wilted by warm toppings, it’s generally OK. But Wendy’s didn’t want its meals to be “good for delivery,” they wanted them as good as they were in the restaurant.
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Gone are the days when a thief had to walk out the grocery store doors with a 16-ounce steak in his pants. Now he can just pull the ole banana trick at the self-service checkout and take it home free.
Read MoreDoorDash Helps feed the Homeless Delivery giant DoorDash is using its delivery algorithm to help feed the homeless along with Feeding America. In a new program dubbed DASH (DoorDash Acts for Sustainability and Hunger), restaurants can easily get the food to homeless shelters. Something that has been tricky to do for restaurants who want to help but either can’t get the food to shelters efficiently or are barred from doing so by local food safety rules. “Project DASH is treated like a DoorDash Drive delivery,” said a DoorDash spokesperson. “Dashers […]
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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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