U.S. online grocery sales hit a new high this May, topping out at $7.1 billion, 1.7 percent higher than a year ago.
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Another Broken Egg Café, like a lot of upscale experiential brands, was caught flat-footed by the pandemic. Its new CEO Paul Macaluso joined in 2019, just in time for a panicked race to figure out delivery for the 92 locations as the packed dining rooms emptied. “Revamp is a good word; there was nothing there. I was at McAlister’s previously, we launched online ordering five years earlier and I did it at Krystal before this. But we had to get it off the ground,” said Macaluso. “We reached out to […]
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After a successful test of a robotic delivery partnership at Ohio State University, third-party delivery operator Grubhub and robotic delivery startup Cartken are ready to expand to campuses across the country. Grubhub, which is already partnered with more than 250 campuses across the country, sees robotics as a way to get even closer to students “Robot delivery is exciting for students and helps provide even better service and innovative solutions to our campus partners,” said Eric Harper, senior director of campus environments at Grubhub. He said he expects to roll […]
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Skipcart and DeliverB4 are offering an outsourced delivery program that claims to save restaurants $2 or more per order.
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Wonder, a truck-based restaurant delivery service started by Marc Lore, raised an additional $350 million through a Series B.
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Nextbite announced will.i.am joined the company as advisor focused on brand building and marketing strategies.
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Grubhub is giving its drivers immediate access to their earnings through Instant Cashout via Direct to Debit.
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You’ve seen the news; so-and-so brand is rolling out a new voice AI to make things easier on the phones or in the drive thru. What started as a trickle of tests of novel technology have become a meaningful trend. Today, there are no less than a dozen voice AI companies targeting the restaurant space with the promise of automating away the need to take phone or drive-thru orders. Valyant AI was among the first to make waves in the restaurant space, as we explored in a webinar series. Founded […]
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Zalat Pizza founder Khanh Nguyen is a self-professed pizza zealot. Once a lawyer, a tech founder and then a pizza-pie innovator, he’s exceptionally focused on making some of the very best pizzas in the Dallas area. He also thinks of himself as the very first restaurant to partner with Uber. “We have a lot of pizzas and that’s all we do. Our one appetizer is a pizza. We don’t even want to take the time to do a fountain soda, that will take some time and effort. So we just […]
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A homegrown invention from a rocket scientist claims to solve the problem of condensation buildup in delivery packaging.
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