LoCo Co-Ops is a restaurant-owned delivery service popping across the country and promising lower delivery commissions.
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DoorDash has updated its merchant suite specifically for small- and medium-sized restaurants.
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Grubhub has partnered with Bank of America to allow its cardholders to receive its Grubhub+ membership service free for a year.
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ParTech, a restaurant and retail point-of-sale provider for enterprise restaurants, has acquired Menu Technologies, an omnichannel ordering platform for international restaurant brands.
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Juicer co-founders founders Ashwin Kamlani and Carl Orsbourn believe dynamic pricing is the key to off-premises profits.
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Byte Kitchen, a California-based ghost kitchen operator, closed a $6 million funding round that will allow it to open a second Noshery food hall.
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C3 has launched a new version of the Go by Citizens mobile app that includes business-to-business and loyalty capabilities.
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In a move that was telegraphed for more than a year, Waitr has officially become ASAP. The company announced it changed its name, embracing not just food delivery but its new “deliver anything” business model. According to a press release announcing the move, “ASAP’s new vision is delivering to consumers, same day, from any type of business.” The company recently signed several agreements to launch delivery of many different types of items including alcohol, sporting goods, luxury apparel, parts for vehicles and home appliances. It also inked a deal to […]
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A new report shows that drone delivery offers an exceptional reduction in carbon emissions, but landbound vehicles can still beat drones when routed properly. In a new report in the journal Cell, authors show that for small packages, drones offer exceptional energy savings. According to the report, when delivering packages under .5 kilograms (1.1 pounds), drone energy usage is essentially a rounding error. “In delivery situations where small and light items with high added value, such as medical deliveries, critical packages, and small electronics, very small drones might become a […]
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Strapped for time to cook? Want dinner ready exactly when you get home? The startup consumer electronic device Celcy hopes to help with a countertop device that stores and cooks food automatically—and it’s a lot more than another microwave. The device, designed by working NASA engineer Maxwell Wieder, started as a joke among engineers. “Our friend’s oven died and he was just doing due diligence and we started razzing him to get an oven with temperature probes and sensors,” said Wieder. “We all paused and said, ‘Hey this would be […]
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