Chipotle Taps Zipline for Drone Delivery
Chipotle is going airborne. Beginning Thursday, customers in the Dallas area can order burritos, bowls through drone company Zipline. The service, dubbed “Zipotle”, is launching from Chipotle’s Rowlett, Texas, location at 3109 Lakeview Parkway. A small number will be...
Virtual Dining Concepts Continues Momentum With Great American Cookies Deal
Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC) is proving that it has moved past last year’s MrBeast imbroglio. Its latest win is a collaboration with Great American Cookies, a Fat Brands-owned cookie chain. Under a partnership agreement, VDC will operate the Great American Cookies...
DoorDash Puts Loyalty at the Center of Its New Restaurant Tools
DoorDash is betting big on loyalty, rolling out tools that let restaurants reward customers wherever they order. What’s new? Loyalty everywhere. For the first time, restaurants can reward customers whether they order through a restaurant’s own app or website, the...
Del Taco Deepens Its Catering Program With ezCater
Del Taco serves more than three million guests each week at its nearly 600 restaurants across 17 states. In 250 of those locations a catering order can be placed through ezCater. By the end of next year that will be systemwide. “Expanding our partnership with ezCater...
Blue Apron Ditches Subscriptions
Blue Apron, the meal kit company known for delivering fresh ingredients and recipes to your doorstep, is moving beyond the subscription model it helped pioneer. First announced on Good Morning America, customers can now order Blue Apron meals à la carte, no commitment...
MarginEdge Gives Operators Tomorrow’s Data Today
It used to be that operators who wanted to make accurate forecasts would study four-week financials like a freshman cramming for a final and hope for the best. Bo Davis remembers this well. “If you’re looking at a financial statement that takes weeks to put together,...
Loyalty Is a Tool With Many Dimensions and Infinite Upside
The Webster’s definition of loyalty is to be faithful to a cause, ideal, custom, institution, or product. This is the dream of any operator. Yet there is no one way to form it. Brands use a multitude of tactics. Yet one commonality is that it’s important to try. Data...
McDonald’s Launches New Direct Ordering On Website
McDonald’s has rolled out a way to order directly from its website, Mcdonalds.com in the U.S. The new option allows customers to order from its site without needing to download an app, log in or create an account. The first-party delivery channel was created in...
GoTo Foods Launches Drone Delivery with DoorDash
Restaurant group GoTo Foods is the latest to launch drone delivery through DoorDash. The service, powered by drone company Wing, is live in three Texas markets: Frisco, Fort Worth, and Plano. Customers within a four-mile radius of brands Auntie Anne’s, Jamba,...
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