Smart tablets are hitting their stride: replacing laptops for the younger generations, being reconfigured into kitchen appliances (part exhaust hood, part family communication vehicle), advertising the freshness of fast food at fast-casual counters and supplying recipes and shopping lists at produce, meat and cheese counters.
Uber announced that the ridesharing company has partnered with Nvidia for further development of the AI computing system in its fleet of self-driving vehicles.
Grubhub ranks what we ate in 2017, plus news on 7-Eleven joining the delivery game.
By Tom Kaiser Pizza Hut delivered a surprise at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show with the announcement that the pizza delivery giant has partnered with Toyota on the development of fully autonomous delivery vehicles. Toyota unveiled designs of a self-driving concept vehicle called e-Palette at the show in Las Vegas. Pizza Hut is one of the founding members of a new “mobility service business alliance” that also includes Amazon, Didi, Mazda and Uber. The announcement follows a number of initiatives from Pizza Hut to improve the delivery experience, including […]
After eight years as Domino’s president and CEO where he oversaw massive sales growth that brought the Michigan-based global pizza giant over the $10 billion mark in annual revenue, Patrick Doyle announced he is leaving the company June 30.
Florida-based BurgerFi is the first major national restaurant brand to announce tamper-proof packaging for the food that leaves its locations through take-out and third-party vendors.
In a research project sponsored Food On Demand, the study is the first of its kind to take a close look at the leaders in third-party delivery, with an army of 1,400 mystery shoppers across the country. SeeLevel also conducted a large consumer survey to see how users of third-party delivery engaged with those delivery providers.
The COO of Grubhub, which provides third-party delivery services in more than 800 cities, was joined by Matt Tucker, COO of online ordering and delivery platform Olo, and Mike Church, managing director at Deloitte Consulting, for a discussion at the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference in Las Vegas November 13-15 about using delivery to drive revenue and demand.
Handpicked stories from around the food on demand industry from December 2017
Only in an app-happy society does this make sense: UGottaEat is a free app for ioS and Android devices for friends and family who want to share already or soon-to-be prepared food. Food startups based in the Cleveland area are also potential candidates. Users post free meals up for grabs, such as leftover cookies from a bake sale. Cooks trying to use up ingredients already on hand can snap a picture and upload it to UGottaEat, then choose how to share or supplement those ingredients with other users, whether through […]
