Alexa in Hotels: Good News for Third-Party Delivery Companies?
This summer, Marriott International is rolling out Amazon’s version of the Echo specifically for hotel rooms. Guests can use it to call the front desk or adjust the room’s temperature and lighting, but what about ordering outside food? “Alexa for Hospitality is a...
Catering: So Hot Right Now
In the restaurant end of the human species, the herd appears to be moving away from non-traditional locations and toward catering as the hot new way to add incremental sales without disrupting the kitchen during rush periods, while paying a lower fee than what’s...
A Partnership Made in the Name of Staying Home
A partnership between Home Helpers and BistroMD was forged when the senior-care franchise began noticing its caregivers were bringing food from home to ensure their clients were getting enough to eat on the caregivers’ days off. While she’s proud to have franchisees’...
Kitchen United Opens First of Many Shared Kitchens
The idea of a virtual restaurant powered by a ghost kitchen has been a trendy topic in the food on demand space, but the first company built around the concept is now operating out of Pasadena, California. Kitchen United’s soft opening, friends and family nights and a...
Will Waitr Become the Walmart of Third-Party Delivery?
Waitr may not have been top of mind just a few weeks ago, but the Lake Charles, Louisiana-based company will soon be in the limelight as the second publicly traded, third-party delivery network. The company has grown to 70 delivery markets offering a unique take on...
Foodsby Brings Lunch to Suburbia on the Cheap
Even though they lack the skyscrapers and classy cachet of big-city downtowns, suburbs are where the bulk of office workers actually reside on a given weekday—and that’s a lot to mouths to feed in the eyes of Foodsby CEO and Founder Ben Cattoor. In the six years since...
Red Robin Is an Early Off-premise Sales Success Story
Just over a year ago CEO Denny Marie Post made the comment that Red Robin doesn’t intend to fall behind in the digital race for consumers. The company had recently announced a partnership with Olo to bring online ordering to the brand and was a few months into its...
Dugg Burger Finds Catering a Natural Extension of its Brand
Just like it takes a lot of food groups to make a balanced meal, it takes a lot of profit centers to make a profitable restaurant. For instance, in-store traffic was down for two-unit Dugg Burger in Dallas, but they made some of it up through catering, along with...Canaccord Says Grubhub Stock is a Buy
As the only publicly traded third-party restaurant delivery service, Chicago-based Grubhub is one of the largest players and one of the most scrutinized brands in the industry. According to a report from investment firm Canaccord Genuity, its stock price in the low...
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