Like Neighbors Bringing On-Demand Care to Loved Ones
Everything about long-term illness is stressful, including wanting to help a friend or family member when you’re not geographically close enough to lend an actual helping hand. But there is help. By providing on-demand meal delivery and transportation services, Like...
Grubhub’s Big New Dunkin’ Partnership
Staving off concerns that DoorDash was winning the delivery partnership game with uber-scale restaurants, Grubhub is trumpeting news that it inked a partnership with Dunkin’, the 14th largest U.S.-based franchise, with more than 9,400 restaurants in 41 states and more...
Uber Food Delivery Drones Are Swooping In
Uber is set to begin its first consumer tests of delivering food by drones as part of a pilot program with the City of San Diego and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). With all the ongoing drone news and updates from Amazon to Domino’s Pizza and many others,...
Delivery App Funnel Shows Many, Many Leaks
A new benchmark study of food delivery apps showed a lot of leaks between downloading and ordering. The good news is, app usage is growing. Research firm NPD Group announced that six in 10 digital restaurant orders are now done through an app. According to another...
Sweetgreen Buys Galley Foods Meal Delivery Service
Sweetgreen, the healthy fast-casual brand that’s widely considered an early adopter of tech in the restaurant space, is also thinking big with its purchase of Galley Foods, a Washington, D.C.-based meal-delivery service that uses organic ingredients in its...
Domino’s to Deliver Autonomously in Houston
This fall Houston consumers could get their pizza delivered by an autonomous vehicle, now that Domino’s has partnered with Nuro in an autonomous delivery test. Domino’s Pizza’s Chief Information Officer Kevin Vasconi said it would be one of the company’s many tests...
Delivery Making People “More Unhealthy” Down Under
According to a public health organization in Australia, wider availability of online restaurant meal delivery is negatively affecting its residents’ health. LiveLighter, an Australia public health education program, surveyed 2,000 people and found that ordering food...ItsaCheckmate Partners With Order-Ahead Company Allset
Order integration provider ItsaCheckmate announced an official partnership with Allset, a provider that allows customers to pre-pay and pre-order meals in restaurants or for pickup. It covers more than 2,000 restaurants in 11 major U.S. cities. Vishal Agarwal, founder...
Reaction: Amazon Shuts Down Amazon Restaurants
After leading a $575 million investment into Europe’s Deliveroo last month, Amazon is shutting down its Amazon Restaurants arm later this month and effectively calling it quits on directly competing with the largest U.S. delivery brands including Grubhub, DoorDash,...
Outstanding Operators
Food On Demand Outstanding Operators features restaurant brands with innovative operations that are taking creative paths to success with delivery and all things off-premises.