DoorDash Launches Made By Women Platform, WNBA Partnership
DoorDash announced a new digital platform designed to highlight women-owned businesses on its platform, called Made by Women, along with a new partnership with ESPN commentator and two-time WNBA All-Star and Los Angeles Sparks forward Chiney Ogwumike. In celebration...
Delivery Platforms Among Biggest Personal Data Collectors
According to a new privacy report, national food delivery apps like Grubhub and Uber Eats are some of the most aggressive data collectors and are especially willing to share or sell that customer data to third parties. The report comes from pCloud, a private backup...
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...
Outstanding Operators
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