Lyft Rolls into Delivery with Olo Partnership
Lyft is getting into the restaurant delivery business through a new partnership with Olo, following in the tire tracks of its rival Uber, which saw its Eats business overtake ride sharing during the pandemic. As the operator of one of the largest transport networks in...
Jet Founder, Marc Lore, Moves into Food Delivery
Marc Lore, the founder of Jet.com, is moving further into the U.S. food delivery scene with a new company called Wonder, an on-demand meal courier platform he calls a “one-stop shop” for prepared meals. According to various reports, Wonder Group has recently raised...
Waitr Rebranding as ASAP, Acquires Another Cannabis Company
Waitr is set to acquire a cannabis dispensary compliance and point of sale company, adding to a growing pot-payments empire for the company. The Louisiana-based food and grocery delivery company is also changing its name as part of a $4.7 million legal settlement with...
Kitchen United Opens Location No. 9 with New National Partner Fuku
This year may go down as the year of the ghost kitchen, but 2022 is looking pretty ghostly, too. As evidence, ghost-kitchen operator Kitchen United opened its ninth location in Santa Monica, Calif., and inked a new national deal with Fuku. Kitchen United CEO Michael...
Ottonomy Brings ‘Context’ to Robotic Delivery
Ottonomy is approaching robotic delivery with a mind toward scaling where it can operate now as the broader robotic delivery industry matures. CEO Ritukar Vijay has a deep background in robotics, working for nearly 14 years on unmanned aerial drones, warehouse...
ChowNow Prepares Revamped Marketplace
ChowNow is launching a “diner impact score”, which shows users how much money they’ve saved restaurants by ordering on the platform. The company’s CEO and founder Chris Webb said the score is an opening salvo in the company’s effort to launch a digital marketplace for...
Home Chef Startup WoodSpoon Launches Catering Business
WoodSpoon, the New York City-based company that connects home chefs with hungry diners, is launching a new catering service. The company is framing the new service as a way for companies to lure work from home employees back to the office with home-cooked meals. “It...
Serve Robotics Raises $13M After Uber Spinoff
Serve Robotics just raised $13 million in a seed extension round to grow its sidewalk delivery bot operations in new markets and with new partners. The company was built inside Postmates under the company’s Postmates X division that explored cutting-edge...
HungerRush CEO: Unplug your Phone, Embrace AI
When HungerRush acquired OrderAI last December, it was a novel way to execute all the no-contact orders out there, but now HungerRush CEO Perry Turbes wants to go a few steps further. “This is a little futuristic, but it’s the way I talk about it...
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