Kitchen United Expands Team, Signs Two Locations
Kitchen United had some big, aggressive goals. Last year, Founder and CEO Jim Collins laid out the path to 15 locations open or under way by the end of 2019. It’s the hallmark in the restaurant industry to over-promise and hope everyone forgets about it, but given a...Grubhub Opens Office in Downtown Philadelphia
Grubhub solidified its presence in Philadelphia on Monday morning. Standing next to Mayor Jim Kenney, Grubhub’s CTO Maria Belousova and Chief Product Officer Sam hall ceremoniously cut the ribbon to a 15,000 square-foot office in Philadelphia’s city center. Once...
Reclusive Lovers Fuel V-Day Delivery Growth
Waitr and its newly acquired Bite Squad subsidiary both saw impressive gains in delivery orders on Valentine’s Day, with a particularly notable increase in seafood-based items and kids meals like mozzarella sticks and chicken tenders. For Waitr, the Louisiana-based...
Is DoorDash Really Worth $7 Billion?
There have been a handful of watershed moments in the third-party delivery space these last few years: Grubhub going public in 2014; Target buying Shipt in 2017; and DoorDash raising three-quarters of a billion dollars during 2018. With the latest news that DoorDash...
Fleat Debuting Mobile Storefronts at FODC
Fleat Network, a Florida-based delivery logistics startup, announced it will debut its “intelligent mobile retail platform” at the upcoming Food On Demand Conference in Chicago April 1st and 2nd. The company’s StreetLogic software combines automated delivery...
Expert Argues Amazon Isn’t Killing Traditional Retail
For all the articles, news segments and business conference quips that Amazon is responsible for the difficulties seen in the U.S. retail market as once-iconic brands continue to fall, one retail real estate expert argues that the Seattle-based mega-giant’s impact is...Yelp’s Grubhub Partnership Yields Record Numbers
Fresh off a Valentine’s Day sugar high for the restaurant industry at large, Yelp announced strong growth in its restaurant services offering, including a record-setting V-day week where its reservation and waitlist software assisted 5.6 million diners. “This momentum...
Operator Profile: Chicago’s urbanbelly
Elizabeth Tomlinson worked her way up at Potbelly as an assistant manager, GM, part of the corporate operations team and then district manager. Now she’s director of ops for urbanbelly, Chicago’s hip Asian fusion concept owned by the Cornerstone Restaurant Group. Over...
Amazon Takes to the Sidewalks with Robotic Test
Amazon is taking an earthbound detour with its new drones. The ecommerce giant that has a handful of wild patents for our aerial drone future has taken to the streets around Seattle with a new roving delivery bot. Dubbed Scout, a six-wheeled robot that looks like a...
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