BMW, Olo Debut In-Car Food Ordering
BMW has partnered with Olo, the New York-based food-ordering platform, to launch a trial enabling U.S. BMW drivers to order restaurant meals while behind the wheel of their cars. Nekter Juice Bar and Portillo’s Hot Dogs are the first brands to participate in the...
Subway Does Free Thanksgiving Week Deliveries
Looking to juice its sales during Thanksgiving week, Subway is offering free delivery on all orders from Nov. 24 through Nov. 30 for all third-party orders coming in through Uber Eats, DoorDash, Postmates, Grubhub and Seamless. Michael Lang, the company’s senior...
Ambitious Pizza Upstart on Delivery, Joining NYC Ghost Kitchen
After a career on Wall Street, Enrique Mendez and his business partner dabbled in growing hydroponic tomatoes, which worked out surprisingly well and led them toward an intensely ambitious goal: creating a new restaurant to offer the finest and most sustainable pizza...
UPS Gets Landmark Aerial Drone Approval
UPS announced in October that it had achieved the highest level of FAA certification for drone deliveries, the FAA’s Part 135 Standard certification. It might sound like government word salad, but UPS and drone partner Matternet have been awarded a landmark license to...
Bite Squad Exits Key Minnesota Cities
Before Waitr acquired it, Bite Squad was a Minnesota-based delivery service putting up huge numbers in its home turf, especially Minneapolis. Less than a year after finalizing the acquisition by Louisiana-based Waitr, Bite Squad has discontinued service in the cities...
DoorDash Unveils 2019’s Trending Delivery Foods
DoorDash has released its annual delivery trend report dubbed “The DoorDash Dish: 2019-2020 Trend Report,” showing what U.S. delivery consumers are hungry for. The report is built on the data from orders through the network and a survey of more than 1,200 DoorDash...
Four Focal Points to Build Better Delivery Ops
This sponsored content was provided by Uber Eats. Third-party delivery best practices are seemingly endless these days, but alas, the typical restaurant operator has a finite amount of time to deal with the equally endless challenges of running a restaurant....
Behind the Scenes on Ghost Kitchen Economics
On the third day of the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference, execs from Kitchen United, Sweetberry Bowls and Dog Haus joined Food On Demand’s Nicholas Upton to go behind the scenes on the economics and other details for restaurants now operating within...
“Whiteboard” Method Ensured Quality Third-Party Partnerships at Portillo’s
Negotiating with a unicorn company out of Silicon Valley, even for an established restaurant brand, can be nerve-wracking. Portillo’s, the Chicago hot-dog institution rapidly expanding into new markets, had one key tactic for getting everything they wanted from its...
Outstanding Operators
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