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Lunch Subscription Plan Allows Office Workers to $6 Lunches

By fodnews | January 28, 2019

Itsu, a grab-and-go healthy Asian eatery is one of a large group of restaurants that have signed up with Mealpal, a subscription lunch service that promises subscribers lunch for under $6.

Drones and Robots Flock to CES

By fodnews | January 28, 2019

Delivery and personal robots and underwater and aerial drones were on display at the 51st annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Four Delivery Companies Extend Walmart’s Grocery Reach

By fodnews | January 28, 2019

AxelHire, Point Pickup, Roadie and Skipcart are part of Walmart’s answer to the question of how it can expand its ability to deliver groceries to more consumers.

Bringg Nabs $25 Million to Accelerate Growth

By fodnews | January 28, 2019

Enterprise delivery logistics platform Bringg announced it has raised a new round of funding from a handful of partners, bringing its recent haul to a cool $55 million. Following what it calls strong market traction with clients including Walmart; Panera Bread; and Arcos Dorados, McDonalds’ largest global franchisee, the new money is planned to accelerate the company’s ongoing expansion. CEO Guy Bloch said, “this is a watershed moment for Bringg” and added that the new investment will help the company level the playing field in the age of Amazon by […]

DoorDash Hires Away Uber Engineer

By Tom Kaiser | January 25, 2019

The delivery wars are real, and spilling across corporate borders with the latest announcement that DoorDash hired away Ryan Sokol, a former director who was with Uber for more than four years.

Whole Foods Reportedly Ditching Smaller 365 Stores

By Tom Kaiser | January 16, 2019

Yahoo Finance reports that Amazon is halting its expansion of the smaller 365 grocery stores, which were created in 2015 as a smaller, cheaper, more urbane version of Whole Foods grocery stores.

Bite Squad Releases ‘18’s Most Popular Delivery Foods

By Tom Kaiser | January 11, 2019

I’m a sucker for year-end lists, and Bite Squad has fueled my fire with its most popular restaurant delivery picks of 2018, both for the country as a whole and for a good number of the recently acquired brand’s top markets. The top four picks, wings, burgers, pizza and burritos are no surprise, but the list gets more interesting after that.

Wayback’s Solution: On-site Cooking in Electric Vehicles

By Laura Michaels | January 9, 2019

The name itself piques interest: Viddl-It. Wayback Burgers’ new electric vehicle initiative, Viddl-It combines the on-site cooking of food trucks with on-demand delivery technology to ultimately bring consumers a better product.

Starbucks Dives Deep With UberEats Delivery Deal

By Tom Kaiser | January 9, 2019

With mall and hotel kiosks, packaged goods on store shelves and drive-thrus all over, you might feel like Starbucks is everywhere, but a new delivery partnership with UberEats means that coffee call may soon be coming from inside your house.

GM’s Cruise and DoorDash Testing Driverless Deliveries

By fodnews | January 9, 2019

Cruise Automation a subsidiary of General Motors, and DoorDash announced a new partnership to test restaurant and grocery delivery via Cruise’s autonomous vehicles through the DoorDash platform.