In a ring filled with retail heavyweights, Amazon is the hulking value giant. The Seattle-based online retailer, grocery chain, filmmaker, foodservice equipment supplier and yes, bookstore, is worth more than Walmart, Costco and Target combined, reports Fortune, as Amazon’s stock has nearly tripled in value over the last two years.
Read MoreA round of up food on demand related stories for the month of April 2017.
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By Laura Michaels Panera is ready to double down on delivery in 2017. With 15 percent of the system already in the delivery business, Panera Bread Co. will expand that figure to 35 to 40% by the end of 2017, said company President Blaine Hurst. In a February 8 conference call with analysts, Hurst said Panera sees the potential to “change the delivery paradigm by offering a fast-casual, higher self-esteem experience through our menu offerings and our service.” Offering delivery, Hurst said, will help differentiate them from the rest of […]
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By Nicholas Upton Whenever a hurricane comes along, meteorologists love to make a big map with lots of scary red lines showing where the storm might go. What’s been dubbed “the cone of uncertainty” has everyone up and down the coast glued to the television until—most often—the hurricane loses steam and disintegrates in the Caribbean Right now, GrubHub has a wide cone of uncertainty ahead of it. Will it make landfall, blowing away rivals and storming the restaurant-delivery landscape? Or will it come to pieces between high-pressure rivals of Uber […]
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By Tom Kaiser – Raw numbers can be hard to come by in such a new industry, especially one dominated by cutthroat competition banking on explosive predictions to keep the venture capital flowing. But research from 1010data on the restaurant and meal delivery categories offers a piping fresh look at who’s up, who’s down and which food-delivery upstarts are retaining customers after the initial trial period.
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By Nancy Weingartner Monroe While the big players are trying to outrun each other on the delivery treadmill, some smaller companies are offering fun additions to the food on demand category. Plus there’s no shortage of unusual nourishment you can get in the mail. For instance, what liberal wouldn’t want a meal engineered by President Obama’s former chef, Sam Kass? Kass is no longer withstanding the heat in the kitchen, but rather out providing nutritional guidance for Sprig. Cities receiving the meal kit services are San Francisco, Palo Alto and […]
Read MoreFood on Demand Stories gather from around the web during the month of March.
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McDonald’s included a pack of surprisingly bold McNuggets with its Investor Day in downtown Chicago earlier this week as the fast-food giant unveiled plans for meal delivery, app-based mobile ordering, curbside pickup and a “more modern, more exciting restaurant environment” as part of its new Experience of the Future restaurant concept that’s already delivering sales gains in markets outside of the United States. Calling delivery “one of the most significant disruptions in the restaurant business today,” McDonald’s committed to technological upgrades, in-store changes and partnership with third-party delivery providers to […]
Read MoreTales Spun ‘Round the Web – February 2017 Shelf Engine revs up to fine-tune restaurants’ ordering Predicting customer order patterns is just one of the headaches Seattle start-up Shelf Engine will help restaurants avoid. Money woes is one problem the three-person company doesn’t need to worry about now that it’s raised a $800,000 seed round. For the story, click here http://www.geekwire.com/2017/shelf-engine-raises-800k-help-food-retailers-use-artificial-intelligence-optimized-ordering/?mc_cid=1f17bd436c&mc_eid=8594c6830b Packaging is getting a bad rap Silent Sprint Institute’s latest study found fluorinated chemicals in one-third of the fast-food packaging, which could lead to it finding its way into […]
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We have seen the future, and it’s on demand. How are we going to survive in a world filled with replacement robots and never having to go outside to forage for food? For my money, fitness centers will be the smart investment by 2020.
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