Sauce Integrates Dynamic Pricing with Olo
Sauce, a Los Angeles-based tech company helping restaurants quickly implement dynamic pricing, announced a new integration with Olo. The Olo-Sauce news comes a week after Juicer, another automated pricing platform, integrated its offering with ItsaCheckmate. Sauce...
Growing Chains Tap Loop’s AI to Optimize Third-Party Delivery
Delivery intelligence platform Loop continues to partner with growth brands looking at AI to maximize third-party delivery profitability. Several chains have tapped the company as of late, including Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers. The fast-casual will...
Robotic Reindeer Delivering Meals for Uber Eats
Heads up next time you order a meal from Uber Eats, as the delivery provider announced that Robot Reindeer will be delivering meals in a handful of locations across the country between now and the end of December. Dressed up with bright red noses and what appear to...
Danny Meyer, Amir Hudda on Qu’s EHI Investment
For Qu CEO Amir Hudda, the recent funding announcement from Danny Meyer’s Enlightened Hospitality Investments is transformative, and brings a credibility factor to the point-of-sale player that’s about “something more than capital.” “Having somebody like Danny Meyer...
Sandland: Are Ghost Kitchens Dead?
Meredith Sandland is co-author of “Delivering the Digital Restaurant: Your Roadmap to the Future of Food” and “Delivering the Digital Restaurant: The Path to Digital Maturity.” Meredith is the CEO of Empower Delivery, software that powers off-premise-centric...
Panelists Discuss Negotiating Delivery Contracts and Why Reconciliation is Top of Mind
Click here to view the full session Negotiating delivery contracts is especially complicated for chains and franchised restaurant groups. The process, coupled with the accounting and reconciliation side of the business, remains onerous amid additional ordering...
Industry Insiders Say Brands Should Look Beyond Rewards for Loyalty Programs
Loyalty programs are a way to give recurring customers a reward for frequency, but industry experts believe they should go beyond discounts. During the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference on November 14, Kevin O’Connell, managing director of strategy and...
Uber Eats Adds Big Lots to the Platform
Whether it’s an electric fireplace, Christmas décor, home appliances or dog beds, one can get a lot at the Big Lots discount retailer, and now that massive selection is available on Uber Eats—its first national home discount retailer on the delivery platform. Just in...
Experts Debate Tactics to Boost Delivery Economics
Click here to view the full session Three delivery, pricing and operations experts—Meredith Sandland, Michael Lukianoff and Jim Balis—joined Food On Demand’s Bernadette Heier at this year’s Restaurant Finance & Development Conference for the latest ways...
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