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Uber’s New Nationwide Shipping Takes on Goldbelly

By Tom Kaiser | June 9, 2022

Uber has launched a nationwide shipping program to get consumers across the country whatever they’re craving, whether it comes from NYC, Miami or LA.

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Marketing Your Restaurant on Third-Party Platforms

By Matthew Liedke | June 9, 2022

Third-party platforms bring plenty of new tools to the table, but industry leaders at FODC said fundamentals remain the most important.

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Lunchbox Acquires Enterprise Ordering Provider NovaDine

By Tom Kaiser | June 9, 2022

Lunchbox is adding to its portfolio of online ordering, delivery integrations and multi-channel marketing with the acquisition of NovaDine.

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BentoBox Adds New Clover Payment Solution

By Tom Kaiser | June 9, 2022

BentoBox has launched a new Payments product that’s enabled through an integration with Clover.

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Zoomo Unveils ‘Moped Killer’ Delivery e-Bike

By Tom Kaiser | June 9, 2022

Zoomo released a prototype for its latest delivery-specific model the company is calling a “moped killer.”

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Subway Relaunches Catering with ezCater

By Tom Kaiser | June 9, 2022

Subway has relaunched its catering program and is now one of the largest catering providers on the ezCater marketplace.

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Dexai ‘Robotic Sous Chef’ Scaling Up with Flexible Robotics

By Nicholas Upton | June 8, 2022

  A robotic food-assembly robot from Dexai is looking for some new kitchens with flexibility as a key focus.  Essentially, the robot dubbed Alfred is a food safe-certified robotic arm on a cart. It can sit in front of a row of hotel pans of ingredients, and uses traditional kitchen utensils like scoops and tongs. The first iteration available now is for food assembly, and it assembles dishes like salads and grain bowls.  Alfred is also joining the U.S. Armed Forces. Back in February, Dexai won a 10-location contract with […]

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Why Off-Premises Reconciliation is Suddenly Such a Big Deal

By Nicholas Upton | June 8, 2022

Reconciliation is not exactly a sexy topic, but as delivery continues to grow and new channels continue to emerge, it has become a major headache for operators. The accounting process of ensuring two sets of financial data match comes up all over business, but third-party delivery companies have reportedly turned that headache into a full-blown migraine. Why? As any operator with a high portion of delivery knows, every delivery platform does things differently. In short, it’s a mess and it eats up hours of accounting time for a single location, […]

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Forward Kitchens Builds One-Off Virtual Restaurant Concepts

By Tom Kaiser | June 2, 2022

Forward Kitchens builds custom concepts for each client, which tend to be small-scale independent operators.

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Chick-fil-A Testing Autonomous Delivery in Austin

By Tom Kaiser | June 2, 2022

Chick-fil-A is testing autonomous delivery with Refraction AI at two restaurants in Austin, Texas.

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