Woflow Raises $3.5M for its Merchant Data Platform
Woflow, a data infrastructure company behind some of the highest growth online ordering and food delivery platforms, has raised $3.5M in seed funding to launch what it calls the world’s first Merchant Data Platform. The platform is a standardized, automated...
Pizza Hut’s President on Reclaiming the Brand’s Mojo
After consecutive same-store sales gains, interim Pizza Hut President Kevin Hochman said the second-largest pizza brand is reclaiming its reputation for culinary innovation and retooling its business for a permanently larger percentage of off-premises sales. With...
FOD Tech Stack Event: Digital Ordering Update
During the second session of Food On Demand’s Building Your Off-Premises Tech Stack event, Ordermark CEO Alex Canter and Lunchbox CTO Andrew Boryk joined FOD Editor Tom Kaiser for an update on digital ordering after years of massive changes in the restaurant scene....
DoorDash Launches Same-Day COVID Test Delivery
DoorDash announced that it will begin facilitating same-day delivery of COVID-19 PCR test collection kits across the U.S through partnerships with Vault Health and Everlywell, two digital health companies. Consumers will now be able to access two COVID-19 home...
Revolution Adds Google Search, Maps Integration
Restaurant Revolution Technologies has added direct ordering capability through Google Search and Google Maps. Through the Washington-based company’s digital ordering platform, Order One, its supported restaurants will soon see an “Order Online” button appear on their...
Pasqually’s Pizza Won’t Fade Away with the Pandemic
For a lot of casual-dining brands, virtual brands have a temporary air. The dozens of wing concepts seem likely to fade away as soon as dine-in traffic resumes. Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings, however, is just getting started. One of the first big-name virtual...
Case Study: Safety Now, Efficiency Next with Automated Lockers
When everything shut down, Boston College had to quickly rethink foodservice to ensure a safe way to provide staff and students with food. They looked to an automated food locker and jumped headfirst into the tricky process of off-premises technology innovation. The...
Olo IPO Validates Company’s Role in Digital Transformation
Olo, the multifaceted ordering and logistics platform for enterprise restaurants, reached a new milestone on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The company went public with an 18 million-share offering. The stock began trading at $32, a more than 20-percent...
Foodhaul Bringing Upscale Chefs to Stable Kitchens
Through partnerships with Chicagoland chefs Fabio Viviani and Rick Tramonto, Foodhaul is a new company that’s looking to bring upscale food to underutilized restaurant and hospitality kitchens across the Upper Midwest and beyond with a new spin on the virtual...
Outstanding Operators
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