Curious: Amazon Adds Grubhub+ for Prime Members
Grubhub received a big boost after Amazon announced it’s giving a free year of the Grubhub+ to its nearly 150 million U.S. Prime members as a new perk, affording them access to free and unlimited deliveries starting immediately. This comes less than three months after...
Sauce Bringing Dynamic Pricing to Restaurants
Because consumer demand, kitchen capacity and rolling promotions mean that restaurant profitability is a sliding scale, Sauce is a tech startup urging restaurants to take a cue from the hotel, airline and car rental industries by pricing their products on a similarly...
Biscuit Bar Shares Tips on Nailing High-Volume Delivery
Biscuit Bar co-CEO Janie Burkett shared what it took to wrangle her high-volume delivery business and land on numerous best-of lists. First, have really, absurdly good food. “The HOSS, it’s the biscuit that started the whole thing. It’s a biscuit topped with...
Daily Harvest Responds to Scary Foodborne Illness Outbreak
Mail-delivery health-food giant Daily Harvest is in the midst of an ugly foodborne illness issue. The first of more than 450 sickened customers has sued the company after being hospitalized and having her gallbladder removed, but the true cause remains unclear....
Grubhub, Brinker Announce 2,500-Location Partnership
Brinker, the parent of Chili’s, Maggiano’s Little Italy and the virtual brands It’s Just Wings and Maggiano’s Italian Classics inked a new deal to plug into the Grubhub delivery network. Under a deal announced on June 27th, Grubhub will soon count 2,500 Brinker...
Lunchbox Debuts Free Online Ordering Platform
Restaurant tech provider Lunchbox launched a commission-free online ordering platform designed for restaurants with one to three locations. Called Lunchbox Essential, the new platform allows operators to create an online storefront with direct-to-restaurant ordering...
DoorDash Appoints Pinky Cole as Chief Restaurant Advisor
After Stephanie Izard’s year in the role, DoorDash appointed Pinky Cole, founder of Atlanta-based Slutty Vegan, as its next chief restaurant advisor. Starting immediately, Cole serves as the voice of the industry and will “infuse the local operator perspective into...
Sharebite Raises Additional $39M in Series B
While downtown office districts aren’t back to pre-pandemic norms, don’t tell that to Sharebite, the corporate food ordering platform that notched another huge fundraising round, this time raising $39 million through a Series B. Citing a daily order volume increase of...
Kwali Computer Vision Perfects Pizza Production, Delivery Coordination
Computer vision is behind many of the biggest technological leaps in recent memory, from pedestrian-detecting cars to cancer-spotting MRI scans, and its next feat is improving the quality of your pizza. With a simple camera backed by wildly complex software, Kwali has...
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