Handpicked stories from around the food on demand industry from December 2017
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Only in an app-happy society does this make sense: UGottaEat is a free app for ioS and Android devices for friends and family who want to share already or soon-to-be prepared food. Food startups based in the Cleveland area are also potential candidates. Users post free meals up for grabs, such as leftover cookies from a bake sale. Cooks trying to use up ingredients already on hand can snap a picture and upload it to UGottaEat, then choose how to share or supplement those ingredients with other users, whether through […]
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Instead of devouring those McNuggets and fries while trying to adjust the radio in your car, soon more McDonald’s customers will be able to binge on cheap eats while simultaneously binge-watching Netflix’s “Stranger Things” from the comfort of their couch.
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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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