Food On Demand News Briefs – August 2018
School District Bans Food Deliveries; European Online Ordering In what seems to be the first ban of its kind, a Florida school district will likely ban food deliveries to students. According to Spectrum News, a local Florida TV news station, the district would add a...
Discovering the Ideal Delivery Experience
I’m a city fanatic, but live in a first-ring suburb. My humble ’burb for the last two years is technically classified as an urban area, but just outside the grid-style neighborhoods of Minneapolis. Our delivery options have been lackluster, and has been the hardest...Grubhub Acquires Loyalty, Mobile-Ordering Company LevelUp
During a very rosy earnings call, Grubhub announced it would acquire LevelUp for $390 million. The loyalty, marketing and mobile payment company provides Grubhub with a lot of loyalty, CRM and marketing benefits. But at the core of the acquisition was LevelUp’s point...
Report Says Delivery Growth Threatens Domino’s
Following the release of Domino’s Q2 financial results, an analyst at GlobalData said even amid 98 consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth, Domino’s Pizza is at risk from the continued growth of third-party delivery services like Grubhub and Just Eat. Peter...
UBS Lays Out Potential Food On Demand Futures
Wealth management and equity research firm UBS put out a thorough look at the food delivery world and its possible futures. The report, dubbed “Is The Kitchen Dead?” digs into the answers from more than 13,000 consumer surveys and detailed data analysis from apps and...
Peace Coffee Couriers Tow Coffee Carts 4,000 Miles a Year
Sam Timmreck used to pedal around 75 miles per week, delivering up to 2,500 pounds of coffee to Peace Coffee’s commercial customers who reside in a 10-mile radius of the roastery in south Minneapolis. Still looking like the lean-muscled cyclist you’d expect to do it...
Incremental Volume Made EZ
Third-party restaurant delivery has opened up the eyes and wallets of restaurateurs, tech investors and hungry consumers. Several years into this dinner-on-demand revolution, catering has emerged as an adjacent option to give restaurants another avenue for adding...
Delivery brings advantages, headaches to restaurant operations
Seth Cohen feels as though his poké restaurant, Sweetfin, is “kinda like the guinea pig” in the world of fast-casual restaurants working with third-party delivery services. It’s a role that’s brought some headaches—Sweetfin’s small footprint means waiting delivery...Off-premise dining conference touts catering, technology and getting off the dime
It takes a village to grow sales in a catering business, said Gracie Prasanson, director of sales at Jason’s Deli. “You need everyone in the store comfortable with sales.” But you also need to explain to everyone from kitchen staff to counter workers why catering is...
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.