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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Delivery to your doorstep is the epitome of convenience, and because convenience is a top reason people visit restaurants in the first place, operators are hustling to incorporate delivery into their business. But amid the enticing profit potential touted by third-party delivery services, important liability issues are emerging.
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After forking over for Foodler in June, Grubhub purchased Eat24 from Yelp for $287.5 million, further solidifying its status as the leading provider of third-party food delivery. Investors celebrated Grubhub’s soon-to-be expanded menu and possibilities of the ongoing partnership with Yelp, skyrocketing the shares of both companies in the days following the announcement.
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Meal delivery for the most part is a young man’s career, so what happens when a woman of a certain age takes on the industry? Our senior editor (and we’re using that word literally), signed on for a shift with Open Arms, a nonprofit that delivers healthy meals to terminally ill patients to see what life on the delivery route’s really like. Sure it’s not the rough and tumble world of UberEats or Grubhub, but baby steps, people, baby steps.
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A new partnership between point-of-sale giant NCR and delivery providers DoorDash and Grubhub aims to eliminate the separate tablets that have become a necessary evil for restaurants looking to add revenue through third-party delivery.
Read MoreA round up of Food on Demand related news briefs for August 2017.
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By Nicholas Upton The Lyft and Taco Bell partnership isn’t the only cooperation happening in the third-party delivery world. Grubhub and Groupon are working together and doing some light consolidation. Under a new agreement, Groupon users will be able to order food from Grubhub’s restaurant base (55,000 restaurants currently). Grubhub also will acquire some of the OrderUp business that was acquired by Groupon in 2015 for $69 million. According to a press release, Grubhub is “acquiring certain assets in 27 company-owned OrderUp food delivery markets from Groupon.” The terms of this […]
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