A Miniature Walmart In Your Home
From the department of zany patents comes Walmart’s idea for a convenience store inside your own home. In a patent filed by the company with the sexy moniker of “Unattended Storefront Apparatus,” an area of the home would serve as an in-house Walmart monitored...
Mobile Access Drives New Capriotti’s Model
Convenience continues to prevail as a priority for consumers, who are also not conceding on quality and taste. This shift is pushing limited-service concepts to reconsider their approach, with some scaling back menus and others using technology as the basis for...
Wendy’s, Doordash Emphasize ‘Restaurant Quality’ in Delivery Partnership
Delivery dinners are pretty forgiving. When the fries come a little soggy or the salad has been a little wilted by warm toppings, it’s generally OK. But Wendy’s didn’t want its meals to be “good for delivery,” they wanted them as good as they were in the restaurant....
High-tech Solutions Leads to Too Many Five-finger Discounts
In this age of tech-centric retail, maybe we really do need the human touch to keep us honest. According to a recent article in The Atlantic, self-scanning in supermarkets is turning into self-scamming, as shoppers switch barcodes or ring up expensive by-the-pound...Food On Demand – February Briefs
DoorDash Helps feed the Homeless Delivery giant DoorDash is using its delivery algorithm to help feed the homeless along with Feeding America. In a new program dubbed DASH (DoorDash Acts for Sustainability and Hunger), restaurants can easily get the food to homeless...
Restaurant Operators Should Cater to Couch Potatoes in 2018
Back in November when I reported for Food On Demand about McDonald’s planned delivery expansion with UberEats, I wrote, only slightly tongue-in-cheek, that the move would allow more people to get the chain’s cheap eats without interrupting their Netflix binge. Now,...
Robomart Putting C-stores on Wheels
Convenience stores might be about to get a whole lot more convenient with the announcement of Robomart, a c-store on wheels that brings groceries, baked goods and prepared foods right to your front door. As TechCrunch reports, Robomart is the result of 10 years of...
Adding Technology to Grocery Stores Eases Hunting and Gathering
Smart tablets are hitting their stride: replacing laptops for the younger generations, being reconfigured into kitchen appliances (part exhaust hood, part family communication vehicle), advertising the freshness of fast food at fast-casual counters and soon they’ll be...
FOD Briefs – January
Uber and Nvidia Team Up on Self-Driving Cars Uber announced that the ridesharing company has partnered with Nvidia for further development of the AI computing system in its fleet of self-driving vehicles. Speaking at the opening press conference of CES 2018, Nvidia...
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.