Food Rocket Lands $25M Investment, Circle K Partnership
Food Rocket, a San Francisco-based 15-minute grocery delivery service, announced a $25 million Series A investment that will be used to expand the service in Chicago and other cities throughout the U.S., as well as reinforce its AI-enabled software and enhance the...
Felipe Chávez Cortés, Co-Founder | CEO, Kiwibot
Felipe Chávez Cortés Co-Founder | CEO, Kiwibot Felipe Chávez Cortés is the CEO and co-founder at Kiwibot. His career in tech and entrepreneurship goes a long way back to his first startup Lulo, a delivery service for university students back in his home country,...
Miso Sees Mass Market Push for Mass Automation
Miso, best known for Flippy the burger-flipping and fry-frying robot, is coming to Jack in the Box. It’s the latest announcement in what Miso CEO Mike Bell calls a “drumbeat” of new pilots and partnerships. In the mix, Chipotle’s Chippy test,...
Just Eat Takeaway, McDonald’s Ink ‘Global Strategic Partnership’
McDonald’s is looking to push delivery further all around the world, as is clear in a new partnership with Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET). The global burger enterprise and the Amsterdam-based European delivery consolidator announced the deal without many details....
Olo Pay Helps Streamline Fragmented Payments Landscape
Payments aren’t the most exciting end of the restaurant industry, it’s largely a commodity. Whoever charges the least fees typically wins the contract. That has led to a wildly fragmented industry when it comes to payment. Across franchised brands...
Swipeby Introduces Online Ordering, Pickup for C-stores
Advanced online ordering and in-store pickup technology that’s been proven in the restaurant industry is moving deeper into the convenience store realm as Swipeby begins deploying its technology in the C-store industry. First deployed through a partnership with...
CA Study Shows Delivery Apps Provided Billions in Pandemic Revenue
Using anonymized data provided by DoorDash, Instacart and Uber Eats, a new study by UC Riverside found app-based delivery services provided a $19 billion economic lifeline for California restaurants, grocers and other merchants during the height of the pandemic. While...
Olo, SOCi Partner on Centralized Local Data Management
Partnerships remain the watchword in the restaurant tech space, with Olo announcing a deal with marketing platform SOCi to integrate with the Olo API and centralize local data management and digital menu management for restaurants. Through this strategic partnership,...
Just Eat Takeaway.com Puts Grubhub Up for Sale
Following months of speculation and activist investor tumult, Amsterdam-based Just Eat Takeaway.com announced its intent to sell Grubhub or explore introducing a strategic partner less than a year after completing its $7.3 billion acquisition of the third-largest U.S....
Outstanding Operators
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