Wade Allen, EVP, Strategic Growth, Costa Vida
Wade Allen EVP, Strategic Growth, Costa Vida Wade Allen is a seasoned restaurant and retail executive and has extensive knowledge in digital innovation with 20+ years of experience driving transformative business strategy and solutions. Wade is currently the EVP of...Travis Kalanick, CloudKitchens
Travis Kalanick CloudKitchens Travis Kalanick is an American entrepreneur, co-founder of Uber, and Chief Executive Officer of City Storage Systems (CSS), the parent company of CloudKitchens, Otter and Lab37 focused on building infrastructure for faster, better,...
Outstanding Operator: Another Broken Egg Cafe
Another Broken Egg Cafe is Food On Demand’s Next Outstanding Operator. CEO Paul Macaluso knows first-hand how to implement strategies to streamline the off-premises side of a business. Macaluso joined the brunch brand in 2019, just months before the pandemic...
Voice AI Surge Continues as More Restaurants Automate Ordering
The saga of fast-casuals increasingly adopting artificial intelligence continues. It seems almost daily, another restaurant is testing or implementing voice AI to take over phone and drive-thru orders. The reasoning remains consistent across the board, “to deal with...
Little Caesars Taps Deliverect to Scale Global Delivery Operations
Little Caesars has decided to use Deliverect to scale and integrate its third-party delivery operations. Deliverect integrates online orders from food delivery channels like DoorDash and Uber Eats. Their platform includes features such as menu management, online...
Outstanding Operator: The Smoke Shop BBQ
Out of Boston, The Smoke Shop BBQ is the next Food On Demand Outstanding Operator. Pitmaster and owner Andy Husbands likes a challenge, and found plenty moving beyond his time as a successful, single-unit restaurateur into the world of barbecue with a focus on...
Marqii Offers New Dashboard Experience for Restaurants
Marqii has launched a new dashboard experience specifically geared toward hospitality businesses. The dashboard includes improved review insights and analytics as well as four new review management integrations with OpenTable, Uber Eats, GrubHub, and ezCater, among...
Cultural Navigation in Global Restaurant Delivery: Crafting Success Amid Diversity
Contributing editor, Peter Backman is a long-term foodservice sector guru and founder of theDelivery.World, a platform that connects the delivery sector and makes sense of the myriad changes and challenges that affect the sector across the globe. In the dynamic world...
Stuart and UrbanPiper Partner to Accelerate Delivery
Stuart, a last-mile logistics company, has joined forces with UrbanPiper, a large integrations provider. This combined tech offering will be available throughout the UK, Ireland, and Europe with the goal of speeding up order time as well as delivery times. The...
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.