Waitr Set to Acquire Delivery Dudes
The “dudes” in Florida are getting a nice windfall from Waitr. Publicly traded Waitr, which is based in Louisiana, announced it has entered an asset purchase agreement with Delivery Dudes. Waitr, the third-party delivery platform with a focus on smaller...
Q&A with Denny’s Virtual Brand Leader Dave Coltrin
Denny’s (Nasdaq: DENN) is on track to be a virtual restaurant leader as it rolls out two delivery-only concepts to almost its entire network of 1,700 restaurants across the country. CEO John Miller said in a recent earnings call and appearance at the ICR...
Deliveroo Prepares its London IPO
Deliveroo, one of Europe’s largest restaurant-delivery services and one which is backed by an investment from Amazon, announced plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange in a listing that “could value the British food-delivery firm at around $7 billion and mark...
VDC’s Guy Fieri Flavortown Kitchen Hits 160 Locations
Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen is the latest celebrity-backed virtual restaurant from Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC), and since its rollout in early 2021, Flavortown Kitchen is already up to approximately 160 locations up and running. Founded by Robert Earl, a...
Albertsons Launches Pilot of RC Delivery Cart
Albertsons Companies has partnered with Tortoise, an automated logistics company focused on last-mile solutions, to pilot its remote-controlled, zero-emission delivery cart in Northern California. “Our team is obsessed with trying new and disruptive technologies that...
Dragontail Systems Partners with Valqari Drone Delivery
Dragontail Systems, a restaurant technology and software provider, has teamed up with Valqari, a Chicago-based drone delivery startup, to use autonomous drones to drop orders at remote landing zones. The partnership is working towards enabling complete contactless...
PAR Technology Integrates Lunchbox into Brink POS
Point-of-sale provider ParTech has added functionality for Lunchbox, a fast-growing provider of restaurant delivery integration and marketing software, into its Brink POS platform. Lunchbox features a variety of digital solutions designed to empower restaurants to...
Indy Operator Spotlight: Michael Kudrna of Frato’s Culinary Kitchen
Michael Kudrna, owner of Frato’s Culinary Kitchen in suburban Chicago, isn’t just experimenting with direct sales and virtual concepts to survive the pandemic. He’s also working with culinary students to provide real-world experience that’s not part of most culinary...
Postmates Spins off Serve Robotics
Less than three months after Uber finalized its deal to acquire Postmates, the combined entity is spinning off Postmates’ robotics division as an independent company, now called Serve Robotics. Along with that announcement came word that Serve Robotics closed its...
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