The Local Culinary Plots International Growth
As the virtual restaurant category continues growing across the board, Florida-based virtual restaurant provider, The Local Culinary, is planning to expand outside of the United States. “We saw amazing growth in 2021 thanks to our model,” said company founder Alp...
Instacart Takes Aim At DoorDash, Uber Eats with New ‘Ready Meals’ Hub
Instacart is rolling out a “Ready Meals” hub, giving ready-to-eat food new prominence on the firm’s grocery marketplace. The company is pushing the hub as a “break-up with takeout,” claiming prepared food from grocery stores may be a cheaper and healthier alternative...
Apex Partners with Tacit on Digital Ordering, Food Locker Pickup
Apex Order Pickup Solutions and Tacit Corporation announced a new software integration to combine Apex’s smart food locker technology with Tacit’s digital ordering and processing for mobile apps, web, kiosks and digital room service. The newly integrated solutions are...
Behind Pizza Hut’s Automated Kitchen, Massive Potential to Scale
The pace of innovation around automated foodservice is nothing short of explosive. Hyper Robotics is pushing the limits with a near fully-automated Pizza Hut restaurant, but wants to translate that pace into scale for new brands. “The biggest story of all is not...
McKinsey Grocery Report Highlights Power of Instant Providers
The grocery segment is grappling with the same profitability concerns as the restaurant space as delivery continues grabbing a larger share of the pie. Consulting firm McKinsey explored the challenges and opportunities in a new report on the grocery industry, making a...
Deliverect Hits 100M Orders, Raises $150 Million
Deliverect, a Belgium-based delivery-to-POS integrator that’s barely five years old, just raised $150 million in a Series D funding round after hitting the milestone of 100 million orders processed. It also used the occasion to launch its Deliverect App Store, which...
Maker Kitchens is a Ghost Facility Focusing on VRs and Food Makers
Kitchen United and CloudKitchens aren’t the only ghost kitchens in town. Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, Maker Kitchens is building secured, individual spaces aimed at virtual restaurant operators and independent food makers using services like Goldbelly to...
Last Mile? DroneDek Examines Last Two Feet
Last-mile delivery is a place of explosive innovation, but DroneDek is thinking ahead to the future of the last two feet. The company has created a smart mailbox. It’s loaded with sensors and cameras, UV lights for disinfecting packages, flashing strobes for...
Club Feast Finds Incremental Revenue in Slow Hours
Incremental is the word used all across the food delivery space. Third-party aggregators promise orders that restaurants never would have seen. It’s largely proven to be accurate, but Club Feast was built on the idea of creating incremental revenue on top of...
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