By Nancy Weingartner Monroe We caught up with Michael Wior, CEO of Omnivore Tech in Hayward, California, at the National Restaurant Show in Chicago not that long ago, and asked him what he sees as the future of restaurant technology. Since his company’s software integrates all the different technologies, apps and bells and whistles for restaurants, we figured he’d have something worth quoting. And we were right. It’s all about what customers are demanding, he says, which right now is to pay with their phone. Restaurant employees, on the other […]
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By Nancy Weingartner Monroe What makes the food-on-demand market so enticing is that in addition to the large, national players like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh, there are individuals cooking for their neighbors within the boundaries of a reasonable delivery area. Aleksandra Till calls herself a home cook. She was raised by a “health-nut vegetarian mom” who tried to limit her exposure to sugar. Fortunately for Till, she was a latch-key kid with the time and skill to make cookie dough before her parents arrived home from work. From there […]
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Hey grocery, here comes the “AMZN” Amazon with a frontal assault in the form of a 13.7 billion deal to acquire Whole Foods Market.
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Underscoring the seismic shift to delivery in all corners of the restaurant world, McDonald’s is ramping up its trial of third-party delivery with UberEats, doubling the number of U.S. locations delivering Big Macs, Egg McMuffins, and McNuggets.
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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.
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