Wealth management and equity research firm UBS put out a thorough look at the food delivery world and its possible futures. The report, dubbed “Is The Kitchen Dead?” digs into the answers from more than 13,000 consumer surveys and detailed data analysis from apps and industry experts. Researchers estimate that global online food ordering will grow to $365 billion by 2030, growing 20 percent each year from the $35 billion market seen today. “Powering this are lower meal production costs, increased logistics scale and strong demographic trends,” wrote the researchers […]
Sam Timmreck used to pedal around 75 miles per week, delivering up to 2,500 pounds of coffee to Peace Coffee’s commercial customers who reside in a 10-mile radius of the roastery in south Minneapolis.
Several years into this dinner-on-demand revolution, catering has emerged as an adjacent option to give restaurants another avenue for adding incremental sales and revenue.
Seth Cohen feels as though his poké restaurant, Sweetfin, is “kinda like the guinea pig” in the world of fast-casual restaurants working with third-party delivery services. It’s a role that’s brought some headaches—Sweetfin’s small footprint means waiting delivery drivers create “a bit of a cluster”— but also insight into how operators can make delivery work to their advantage.
It takes a village to grow sales in a catering business, said Gracie Prasanson, director of sales at Jason’s Deli. “You need everyone in the store comfortable with sales.” But you also need to explain to everyone from kitchen staff to counter workers why catering is an important part of a fast-casual business.
A new study from Market Force Information about the U.S. grocery industry shows significant churn for meal-kit delivery services where all the needed ingredients and recipes are shipped directly to homes.
Scads of battery-powered scooters under the brand names of Bird and Lime have been deposited in urban areas across the country in recent weeks—in many cases without municipal approval or permission. In response, cities are fighting back with licensing rules and cease-and-desist letters.
LevelUp, a restaurant analytics, loyalty and rewards company, announced a new partnership with Restaurant Revolution Technologies to help restaurants gain enhanced exposure and ordering distribution across several newfangled ordering channels.
According to a report in TechCrunch, Ford has teamed up with Postmates for a pilot test of on-demand delivery with approximately 70 businesses in the Miami metro area. TechCrunch also reports that Ford is testing vehicles with multiple storage lockers so vehicles can handle multiple separate deliveries in the same trip.
Supermarket giant Kroger took another step to bolster its online grocery and delivery business, this time with a partnership with driverless car company Nuro to deliver groceries with its vehicles.
