by Arthur Robert | Oct 14, 2021 | News
Reef Kitchens, which went from a parking lot owner to a ghost kitchen operator, recently announced a partnership with 800 Degrees Woodfired Pizza to open 500 ghost kitchens for the brand over the next five years. The news comes amid a flurry of partnership...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 14, 2021 | News, Third-Party Delivery
DoorDash announced a $1 million restaurant disaster relief fund and new advertising tools to help restaurants reach new customers through self-serve Sponsored Listings. Both were unveiled during the delivery provider’s annual Main Street Strong Restaurant Conference....
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 14, 2021 | Briefs, COVID-19, News, Third-Party Delivery
Grubhub and The Greg Hill Foundation’s Restaurant Strong Fund will be giving $4 million in grants to support restaurants across the country that have been working hard to survive the pandemic. Aimed at independent restaurants in seven cities, the grants will range...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 14, 2021 | Briefs, News
Qu, a new-age restaurant tech and POS company, launched a new feature called the Commerce Cloud that adds a new level of speed and stability for enterprise restaurants. It ensures fewer lost transactions and higher levels of guest and employee satisfaction, and was...
by fodnews | Oct 12, 2021 | Conference Speakers
Kinesh Patel Chief Technology Officer | Co-Founder, SevenRooms As the CTO & Co-Founder of SevenRooms, Kinesh Patel leads the engineering teams in the development of software technology. Prior to founding SevenRooms, Kinesh served as Team Lead of Scientific...
by fodnews | Oct 12, 2021 | Conference Speakers
Carl Orsbourn SVP- Food, Hospitality, Retail Invisible Technologies Carl Orsbourn is a global retail executive and board member whose experience spans blue-chip companies (BP-owned ampm), disruptive start-up ventures (Juicer, Kitchen United), and restaurants (Alfa...
by fodnews | Oct 12, 2021 | Conference Speakers
Raj Beri VP, Grocery & New Verticals, Uber Eats Raj Beri is Uber’s VP of Global Grocery and New Verticals. Raj’s team oversees all non-restaurant delivery businesses for Uber globally. Previously, he led the Uber Eats business in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East...
by fodnews | Oct 12, 2021 | Conference Speakers
Andrew Custage Head of Research Insights, Medallia Andrew Custage is the Head of Research Insights for Medallia. He leads a function using both behavioral and survey-based research datasets to deliver groundbreaking analysis to the food service industry and beyond,...
by fodnews | Oct 8, 2021 | News, Sponsored Content
*This is content sponsored by DoorDash. There has been nothing easy about being a restaurant operator during this last year and a half. Through shutdowns, changing customer habits and relentless uncertainty, three self-made owner-operators leaned into delivery and...
by fodnews | Oct 8, 2021 | News, Sponsored Content
*This is content sponsored by Omnivore. Omnivore is alleviating the headache of testing and implementing restaurant software by opening access to its core API. CEO Dan Singer said, “the updated application programming interface (API), available through the Omnivore...