BentoBox’s Consumer Report Finds Falling Order Frequency, Rising Diner Sentiment
Diners plan to dine more in 2022. That’s according to the latest installment of BentoBox’s Restaurant Delivery Consumer Trend Report. A combined 57 percent of respondents said they planned to order somewhat or significantly more frequently from restaurants and...
New Tools from Thanx Promise a Custom Loyalty Mousetrap
Loyalty is top of mind for the restaurant industry as operators look to build a better mousetrap and bring customers back again and again. For companies leading in loyalty, that’s a great way to keep customers close, but with every new loyalty program, the...
Digital Ops, Off-Premises Shine in Chipotle’s Q4 Earnings
Chipotle marked another exceptional year of business by nearly every metric. Off-premises operations and digital ordering were especially bright spots in its latest earnings report. In the fourth quarter, Chipotle’s revenue increased 22 percent, reaching $2 billion...
Unfurl Cuisine Building Hands-On Virtual Food Halls
Billing itself as a virtual food hall that delivers, Unfurl Cuisine is a 3-unit operation in the increasingly murky area between ghost kitchens and food halls. Unfurl builds kitchens with spaces for up to 20 brands in one location where its own employees cook the...
Lunchbox Lands $50M Series B Investment
Lunchbox closed a $50 million Series B investment that will allow the New York-based platform offering online ordering, integrations and marketing for restaurants and ghost kitchens to accelerate its research and development efforts. The eight-figure investment round...
Sharebite Inks Catering Partnership with Vornado
Sharebite, a mission-driven food ordering platform built for workplaces, announced a partnership with Vornado Realty Trust, New York City’s leading office landlord. Through this deal, Sharebite will become the exclusive office meal solution providing group orders for...
The Local Culinary Plots International Growth
As the virtual restaurant category continues growing across the board, Florida-based virtual restaurant provider, The Local Culinary, is planning to expand outside of the United States. “We saw amazing growth in 2021 thanks to our model,” said company founder Alp...
Instacart Takes Aim At DoorDash, Uber Eats with New ‘Ready Meals’ Hub
Instacart is rolling out a “Ready Meals” hub, giving ready-to-eat food new prominence on the firm’s grocery marketplace. The company is pushing the hub as a “break-up with takeout,” claiming prepared food from grocery stores may be a cheaper and healthier alternative...
Apex Partners with Tacit on Digital Ordering, Food Locker Pickup
Apex Order Pickup Solutions and Tacit Corporation announced a new software integration to combine Apex’s smart food locker technology with Tacit’s digital ordering and processing for mobile apps, web, kiosks and digital room service. The newly integrated solutions are...
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