I love cities, but have concerns about how the latest crop of high-tech upgrades will impact city life at the street and sidewalk level. Thanks to advancements like delivery robots, autonomous taxis and drones, which will eventually hit the urban scene in a big way, the one certainty is that cities of the future will look, feel and operate much different than they do today. With Lyfts on demand, tweeting food trucks and restaurants offering discounts when you’re within a given distance, we’re all guinea pigs as businesses figure out […]
In its first step to transitioning the company’s existing hybrid-electric fleet to fully electric vehicles in the coming years, Bite Squad will test the Tesla Model 3 as part of its food delivery vehicle fleet. The initial test will be in Bite Squad’s home market of Minneapolis; the restaurant delivery service operates in more than 30 markets across the country. “On an average day, we have delivery drivers navigating thousands of food deliveries through the streets of 30 metropolitan markets across the country,” said Bite Squad co-founder and CEO Kian […]
Meal kits is a tough business, just look at the recent news around Blue Apron, the stock is tanking and one stock watcher says there’s “no surviving” the crowded market which now counts Walmart and Weight Watchers as new entrants. That may be overblown, especially in this red-hot consolidation cycle, but there’s no denying that meal kits are walled in by some tricky competition and more than 100 years of consumer grocery-shopping habits. To build out its niche and avoid looking like Blue Apron—and hopefully avoiding its same fate—Snap Kitchen […]
Bulkbox Aims for Affordable Bulk Food Delivery Seeking to make organic, healthy foods accessible and affordable to more households, Bulkbox Foods launched this month, working directly with farmers to provide organic produce and grass-fed meats straight to the consumer. To offer what it says in the most cost-effective price, Bulkbox Foods doesn’t further process any of its products and is not a meal kit service. The Los Angeles-based company, co-founded by Bridgette and Tyson Blackney, also uses 100% recyclable packaging. Bulkbox customers choose one 3.5-5.5 pound whole piece of meat […]
Amazon is going low-tech and a bit retro with its Treasure Truck, the online retailers’ version of deals on wheels, that is now coming to a Whole Foods parking lot near you. The first Treasure Truck deal was the hot-selling Instant Pot, according to the Tech Crunch website.
We’re ready to take it to the streets.
From the department of zany patents…
Convenience continues to prevail.
Delivery dinners are pretty forgiving. When the fries come a little soggy or the salad has been a little wilted by warm toppings, it’s generally OK. But Wendy’s didn’t want its meals to be “good for delivery,” they wanted them as good as they were in the restaurant.
Gone are the days when a thief had to walk out the grocery store doors with a 16-ounce steak in his pants. Now he can just pull the ole banana trick at the self-service checkout and take it home free.
