DoorDash expanded its merchant mix with new grocers and retailers including Dick’s Sporting Goods and Big Lots.
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Food On Demand spoke with Bikky co-founder and CEO Abhinav Kapur shortly before announcing its recent, $5.25-million seed round.
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France is reportedly taking steps to restrict where delivery “dark stores” can locate within cities.
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In another technology play designed for the return to venues, GoTab has launched a suite of tools to help multi-operator locations to lean into digital payments. With the new functionality, venues like food halls and stadiums—as well as pop-up event operators that host festivals and concerts—can bring a slew of tools to in-person customers. GoTab cofounder and CEO Tim McLaughlin said there was a lot included in the latest update. “As guests flood back to food halls, stadiums and other entertainment venues, they’ve come to expect the convenience of digital—fast, […]
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Under a new partnership between Google and order-integrator and digital service provider ItsaCheckmate, customers can order directly from their search results. The partnership is one part of Google’s further push into the digital ordering space across commerce, and represents another service for restaurant partners, said ItsaCheckmate founder and CEO Vishal Agarwal. “We are very excited to offer our Order with Google integration to SMB restaurants,” said Agarwal. “This will help them generate new digital orders at minimal costs, fully integrated with their POS system.” He was quick to point out […]
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Taking stock of the third-party delivery market in the second quarter of 2022 largely continues long-term trends, but there are some notable nuggets. In data from YipitData, a research and analysis firm with a focus on the delivery market, the big market share numbers continue to move in the same direction. DoorDash remains the No. 1 delivery player by far, reaching 60 percent of the total market through the second quarter. Grubhub makes up 9 percent and has continued to tick down in market share. According to Yipit researchers, the […]
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Uber Eats signed a 10-year partnership with Nuro, a California-based electric delivery robot developer.
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Researchers at Sense360 by Medallia dove into the latest food and beverage sales data to examine what COVID trends are no longer relevant.
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Flybuy, a restaurant technology provider of optimized curbside, drive-thru, in-store and delivery driver pickup, is now integrated on the Toast point-of-sale platform.
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The kiosk is coming for the drive-thru, too, under a new partnership between Delphi Display Systems and Paerpay. Delphi, a provider of hardware for the quick-service industry, and Paerpay, a mobile payments provider, connected the dots (and their technology stacks) to speed up drive-thru lines. In locations using both platforms, customers can simply point their phone at a QR code in line, confirm their payment via various platforms from Apple Pay to credit card, grab their food and go. Paerpay Chief Revenue Officer Rolf Gehrung, said the integration speeds things […]
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