by Tom Kaiser | Jan 9, 2020 | Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Here we go with the first big delivery headline of 2020: The Wall Street Journal reports that Grubhub, the second largest U.S. delivery provider, has hired a financial advisor to explore strategic options, possibly including a sale, as optimism has morphed into...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 9, 2020 | News, Third-Party Delivery
The pixels were still drying on our Q&A with Waitr’s new CEO Adam Price when news hit that Price resigned from the captain’s chair and board of directors and is being replaced by Carl Grimstad. He’s chief manager of C. Grimstad Associates, a family- office...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 9, 2020 | Third-Party Delivery
Catering remains hot as an increasing share of the restaurant business heads out onto the streets. Occupying the middle ground between hungry at-home consumers and mega-catering firms like ezCater that primarily service corporate accounts, Ohio-based DeliverThat is a...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 9, 2020 | Finance, News
Trade wars are hot topics these days, and the latest to pop up is pitting Little Caesars against its much larger national pizza competitors. Once a delivery skeptic, Little Caesars is getting into direct-to-consumer delivery through an exclusive partnership with...
by Nicholas Upton | Jan 9, 2020 | News, Research
One of the biggest topics of discussion during the massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas was the future of smart cities and all the innovative thinking and hard work between the cities of today and a truly smart city. “We’re on the cusp of dramatic...
by Nicholas Upton | Jan 9, 2020 | Automation, News, Top Stories
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is absolute nerdy chaos. Some 180,000 or more attendees are there to see hundreds or thousands of exhibitors all promising the next big thing in technology. Ultimately, the world may never see what the breathless bloggers hail as...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 3, 2020 | Best Practices, Top Stories
A facial recognition company is starting with the restaurant industry in its quest to break consumers free of the tyranny of pulling out purses, wallets or phones to pay for things. For hungry consumers, the claimed benefits are speedier transactions and instant...
by Nicholas Upton | Jan 3, 2020 | Best Practices, News, Research
As it works through a new restaurant design, Chipotle is testing new walk-up and drive-thru windows for digital orders and pickups. According to a CNBC article, the burrito giant will open around 80 restaurants with “Chipotlanes,” which is what they’re calling their...
by Nicholas Upton | Jan 3, 2020 | News
There’s no shortage of innovative autonomous-vehicle companies out there, from Starship rolling around the sidewalks of college campuses and Washington, D.C., to Nuro delivering groceries in on-the-road vehicles. But REV, developed by Refraction AI, fits right between...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 3, 2020 | Briefs, News
MyValue365.com, a Chicago-based ethnic grocery ordering and delivery company that’s previously focused on at-home consumers, announced its entry into B2B grocery-delivery business, which includes deliveries to restaurants. This offering is a part of the company’s new...