by Nicholas Upton | Jan 27, 2022 | Automation, News
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...
by Nicholas Upton | Jan 27, 2022 | Best Practices, News, Third-Party Delivery
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...
by Arthur Robert | Jan 27, 2022 | News
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced new regulations on third-party delivery providers, all aimed at protecting the rights of couriers. Taken from an NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection press release, the regulations will force third-party delivery...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 27, 2022 | Briefs, News
Del Taco, the second-largest U.S. Mexican QSR brand, opened its first Fresh Flex location that maximizes consumer convenience, improves operational efficiency and puts third-party delivery and customer pickup front and center with dedicated drive-thru lanes for mobile...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 27, 2022 | Briefs, News, Third-Party Delivery
Uber announced a new partnership with Smart & Final Stores, a California-based grocery warehouse store for household and business customers, to expand its on-demand and scheduled grocery delivery to customers on the West Coast. Through the new deal, 173 Smart...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 20, 2022 | Automation, News, Third-Party Delivery
Muncho, an early-stage pizza delivery startup in Philadelphia, is using oven-equipped vans to cook pizzas while en route to customers’ houses. With plans to add more advanced cooking tech and an owner-operator model to scale up to additional neighborhoods, early...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 20, 2022 | Briefs, News
Less than a year after being spun off from Postmates, Serve Robotics hit a significant milestone by deploying next-generation robots that are the first autonomous vehicles to complete commercial deliveries at Level 4 autonomy. That elusive milestone, which mass-market...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 20, 2022 | Briefs, News, Third-Party Delivery
C-store giant 7-Eleven has launched a new subscription delivery service that waives delivery fees on more than 3,000 products, including hot and fresh foods, drinks, snacks, groceries and household items, among others. The 7NOW Gold Pass subscription costs $5.95 per...
by Arthur Robert | Jan 20, 2022 | News, Third-Party Delivery
When COVID-19 closed down restaurant dining rooms, it forced restaurants to adapt to a new digital world. That opened up a range of new possibilities, from simple marketing to ghost kitchens and virtual restaurant brands, but it also created a new set of headaches....
by Nicholas Upton | Jan 20, 2022 | Automation, News
Ghost kitchen operator ClusterTruck has a new model designed to help the company fill in existing markets and quickly scale new ones. ClusterTruck has been operating since 2016, founded on the principle of vertical integration. It controls the order platform, the...