Instacart Raise Sends Valuation Sky High
Instacart raised another $265 million from investors, sending the grocery delivery company’s valuation to just shy of $39 billion. This represents the fourth raise during the pandemic and doubles the valuation for the second time in the last year. The company raised...
Square Survey Says More Change Ahead for Restaurants
Point of sale and payment gateway Square released a pair of surveys exploring the future of the restaurant industry in the minds of restaurant operators and consumers. The company partnered with Wakefield Research to question 500 restaurant owners and 1,000 consumers...
Entrepreneur Builds Model to Support Black-owned Restaurants
Without the investor backing that’s a staple of the delivery ecosystem, Black and Mobile is a fast-growing restaurant delivery provider punching above its weight class following a year where both the pandemic and social unrest put a national focus on elevating...
Just Salad Creates No Plastic ‘Housemade’ Meal Kits
Just Salad, a fast-casual franchised restaurant brand, has launched its Housemade meal kit brand that it’s billing as a “no-commitment” meal kit and grocery brand with a focus on less waste and unnecessary packaging compared with other meal kit providers. The new...
Waitr, Bite Squad Announce New Ordermark Integrations
Waitr Holdings, a mid-size, third-party delivery provider and parent company of Bite Squad, announced its platforms are now fully integrated with Ordermark, a California-based restaurant online ordering management company. The new streamlined service allows orders...
Drivers’ Destiny Rides Shotgun with New Delivery Platform
There’s another hyper-local delivery platform coming in Nashville. Yes, another one! TripDelivers launched in January as an alternative to the big-name, third-party platforms. In fact, the landing page for the company and app calls out a number of the practices...
Enterprise Delivery SaaS Giant Olo Files to go Public
Olo, one of the first big-name digital delivery order aggregators, is set to go public soon. The company filed its S-1 prospectus with lots of new details in its first public pitch to Wall Street. The New York-based company looks to raise $100 million in a public...
DoorDash Acquires Chowbotics in Step Toward Restaurant Automation
DoorDash acquired robotic salad maker Chowbotics in a new push to give merchant partners additional options to deliver. The top delivery platform that went public in December announced the Chowbotics acquisition in a blog post. It noted that the “proven” model with...
Thinking Through the Delivery P&L
Delivery profitability remains one of the biggest debates in the food-delivery space. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified that topic dramatically as the majority of restaurants continue doing a huge portion of their business in pickup and delivery channels. A large...
Outstanding Operators
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