Half of U.S. Consumers Now Using Meal Delivery as Sales Grow
Restaurant meal delivery in the U.S. hit a key milestone before the holidays, as 50 percent of American consumers have now ordered from one of the major meal delivery services, up from 44 percent a year ago, according to the latest figures from Bloomberg Second...
Reef Inks Partnership to Expand in Middle East, North Africa
Reef is kicking 2022 off with a bang, announcing a joint venture with Americana Group, the largest food and beverage operator in the Middle East. Together, the two companies will open new ghost kitchen facilities in the Middle East and North Africa regions that...
White Rhino Raises Millions for L4 Autonomous Delivery
White Rhino, a Beijing-based autonomous delivery vehicle manufacturer, has raised nearly $8 million through a recent Series A funding round. It’s the company’s second million-dollar funding round in the last six months. Like Nuro, which is now valued at $8.6 billion,...
GM Shows off BrightDrop Delivery EVs at CES
General Motors was one of many automakers using this year’s Consumer Electronics Show to debut new electric vehicles. On the delivery side, GM’s BrightDrop last-mile delivery division showed off its fleet of electric delivery vans, and announced huge reservations from...
Self-Driving Deliveries Rolled Closer to Reality in 2021
You may remember promises of imminent self-driving from the mid-2010s when futurists claimed fleets of robotaxis would soon fill the streets and urban planners got high on the idea of tearing down parking garages. We now know this future isn’t right around the corner,...
Sitka Salmon Shares on Building Sustainable Delivery Memberships
Delivering regular shipments of fresh, wild-caught fish from Alaskan coast to U.S. consumers is a fundamentally different challenge than restaurant delivery. No matter the complexity, the business that has exploded in popularity since the start of the pandemic as...
Moody’s Downgrades Grubhub
Moody’s Investors Services, the highly visible bond credit rating business, downgraded its outlook for Grubhub while maintaining a stable outlook for the third-largest U.S. restaurant delivery provider. The ratings firm cited erosion in Grubhub’s liquidity, sustained...
DoorDash Partners with Winn-Dixie Parent on Grocery Delivery
Residents of the southeastern states have new on-demand grocery options, as DoorDash has partnered with Southeastern Grocers Inc., parent of Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie stores. Customers in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana can...
Dispatch Goods Raises $3.7M to Expand Reusable Food Packaging
Food delivery has a packaging problem, and it’s not just sad fries. For nearly every single order, there is at least one single-use container heading to the landfill or out into the environment. To address that issue, Dispatch Goods has been working on...
Outstanding Operators
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