What good is a cell phone if you can’t use it to order food from your cell? Some day, we predict, even prisons will be outsourcing their meal programs to restaurants. Related posts: Restaurant Analysts React to COVID-19 Closures Delivery Providers Roll Out Restaurant Relief P.F. Chang’s Inks Catering Agreement with ezCater, Cartwheel Voice AI Steals the Spotlight at National Restaurant Association Show
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By Tom Kaiser It is both a hunger and an addiction—clicking furiously for more, wiping sweat off my fingers to scroll faster, never satisfied, but fully aroused. My pulse quickens and heart pounds through my shirt as I find the electro-lust I’ve been searching for: the glistening sheen of crème brûlée, hotly steaming pork buns, nubile little pieces of sushi and all the rest of the food porn that my chosen friends and brands are posting all over the internet. Whoa, I think I need a minute to digest all […]
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By Nicholas Upton I tried to keep up with Folstad on a recent delivery, but as you can see in the video on the website, it was futile. He did, however, slow down enough to discuss the hyper-local, sustainable and increasingly tech-savvy world of bike delivery.If you want to keep up with Sean Folstad, the founder of bicycle-delivery company Zen Delivery, don’t bother. The man is a biking machine with a pair of quads suitable for the Tour de France. But while he might not be your best companion for […]
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By Laura Michaels
Could there come a day when consumers confine themselves to their homes, binge-watching “Orange Is the New Black” and only opening the door to quickly snatch an Amazon order from the front stoop?
Molly Clark started with the bare bones when she launched her new company. It originally was a soup company with the clever name, The Twin Cities Stock Exchange, but as she and her business partner, Maddy Kaudy, read more about the benefits of bone broth, they shifted gears. They moved to the equally clever name, Taking Stock Foods, and began focusing on drinkable bone broth.
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Sure you know about BiteSquad and Blue Apron and their ilk, but what do you know about the original meal delivery service, Meals on Wheels, that provides food minus the app and vast selection.
Read MoreHandpicked news stories related to the food delivery industry from the month of May 2017
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By Nancy Weingartner Monroe Before the meal-kit industry took on America’s kitchens, there were make-and-take meal services whose business plan was to entice young mothers to make a week or month’s worth of meals for the freezer while socializing with their girl friends. Concepts abounded in the mid-2000s, with names like Dream Dinners, Super Suppers, My Girl Friend’s Kitchen and Let’s Dish. Most started franchising right out of the gate, gobbling up the independents. While these were brick-and-mortar sites catering specifically to mothers, how the industry went from multiple franchises […]
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Instead of a tired, overworked or maybe even stoned delivery driver, what if your food came from a friendly neighbor, or a happy coworker? That’s exactly the question startup delivery enabler JoyRun seeks to answer by tapping into the delivery gig economy in a way that makes everyone happy—the restaurant, the delivery “runners” and the end users, said founder and CEO Manish Rathi.
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It’s officially time to change the way we talk about robots. With Postmates six weeks into large-scale tests of sidewalk-traversing delivery robots in Washington, D.C., and Redwood City, California, robots are here, they’re ready and they’re making a beeline for your front door with ramen and chopsticks in tow.
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