by fodnews | Apr 5, 2022 | Conference Speakers
Rajat Suri CEO, Presto Raj founded Presto in 2008 while pursuing his doctorate at MIT. He has also cofounded Zimride (now Lyft), the popular ride-sharing company. He holds a bachelors from the University of Waterloo and also attended a Ph.D. / MBA program at...
by fodnews | Apr 5, 2022 | Conference Speakers
Jon Sewell Chairman | Founder, Go LoCo Jon has had a 40 year career spanning both the non profit healthcare sector (30 years) and food service industry. Utilizing skills developed from creating and managing over 20 multi hospital Co-ops and JVs, he has created a 3rd...
by fodnews | Apr 5, 2022 | Conference Speakers
Matt Godinsky Senior Research Analyst, Euromonitor Matt Godinsky is a senior research analyst at Euromonitor International based in Chicago. In his role, Matt analyses the services and payments landscape, providing insights on consumer trends, innovation, competitive...
by fodnews | Mar 31, 2022 | Conference Speakers
Kim Bartmann CEO, Bartmann Group Kim is a triple-bottom-line restaurateur and professional instigator, launching eateries in re-imagined spaces since 1991. She’s been creating and producing events for an unmentionable amount of time; before they called it placemaking....
by Arthur Robert | Mar 31, 2022 | News
One of the original promises of ghost kitchens was lowering the barrier for restaurant entrepreneurs to start their own companies. And for many restaurant startups, the promise has been fulfilled, even as enterprise brands flooded the ghost kitchen segment. Daniella...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 31, 2022 | Best Practices, News
It’s getting easier to picture the next generation of dining experiences, especially as restaurants and tech providers are bringing new features to the loyalty and customer engagement spaces. Whatever kinds of space grains we’ll be eating, the rest of the experience...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 31, 2022 | Briefs, News
As Reef and other ghost kitchen operators have learned, municipal approval is a lynchpin vital to the present and future of the category. Last week, commissioners in its hometown of Miami unanimously renewed an ordinance created to regulate app-based delivery and...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 31, 2022 | Briefs, News, Third-Party Delivery
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the global delivery and ride-sharing giant’s first global convenience store partnership with BP. Over the next three years, the two companies aim to have more than 3,000 retail locations available for delivery on Uber in Australia,...
by Nicholas Upton | Mar 31, 2022 | Finance, News
Instacart made some finance news when it voluntarily slashed its valuation by almost 40 percent, from nearly $40 billion to $24 billion. That seems quite bad at first blush, but the valuation dip offers a window into the mismatch between venture capital valuations and...
by fodnews | Mar 31, 2022 | Conference Speakers
Scott Landers President, Figure 8 Scott Landers began his lifelong fascination with food and water on the sixth-generation Landers Family Farm. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering from MIT, and has worked as a civil engineer, product...