Snackpass Nabs $70 Million for Highly Social Digital Ordering
Curious what your friend ate for lunch? Want to break the ice with an iced coffee? That’s the social focus that helped Snackpass secure a $70 million Series B round to transform digital ordering. The company was started in 2017, when founder Kevin Tan was a...
C3 Announces Reef Partnership, $80 Million Fundraise
C3 announced it would soon be in 500 Reef ghost kitchens through a deal that brings another $80 million to the fast-growing foodservice technology and branding firm. The company, founded by hospitality giant Sam Nazarian who is also the chairman and CEO of SBE...
Amazon Expands Delivery Robot Program in Helsinki
Amazon is expanding its work on Amazon Scout, the company’s land-based delivery robot. The delivery giant is hiring a team of engineers and developing new software to help simulate real-world conditions its robots will face out on the streets. With these...
ShiftPixy Building Ghost Kitchen Incubator, VR Concepts
For ShiftPixy, a gig economy platform that diversified into helping restaurants build their own native ordering platforms, ghost kitchens and virtual restaurants are too big of an opportunity to ignore. The company is launching a ghost kitchen incubator to test its...
Grubhub Partners with Russia’s Yandex on Delivery Robots
Grubhub signed a multi-year partnership with Yandex Self-Driving Group, a division of the Russian multinational tech group, to enable faster, more cost-effective deliveries via delivery robots on U.S. college campuses. According to a press release announcing the deal,...
The Frenzy for Brooklyn Dumpling Shop’s Automat Model
The first automat opened in 1895 in Berlin. Dubbed the Quisisana, it was the first method of getting food and beverages sans human interaction—insert coin, get a coffee or a sandwich in return. It was mind boggling, selling more than 35,000 items its first day in...
Self-Delivery Insurance Demystified, Somewhat
How much can you expect to pay to insure a delivery fleet? Well, that depends on many, many factors, but there are ways to de-risk the insurance and lower the cost for restaurants. As we explored last week with Dragontail’s Ido Levanon, technology has brought...
Jokr Finds Less is More in Rapid Grocery, Retail Delivery
Like cicadas, the rapid-delivery grocery category has sprung up so quickly you’ve got to assume it’s been here all along, waiting for the ideal time to emerge from the ground. It’s easy to picture use cases where near-instant grocery delivery makes sense, but Jokr is...
Gorillas, the Grocery Startup That Can’t Slow Down
Almost-instant grocery delivery company Gorillas is coming from across the pond to provide New Yorkers with groceries delivered in ten minutes or less. Kağan Sümer founded and launched the Berlin-based company in June 2020. Growing extensively from the start, Gorillas...
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