ItsaCheckmate Expands Platform with Open Tender Acquisition
ItsaCheckmate is dramatically expanding its feature set with the acquisition of Open Tender, a Florida-based first-party ordering and guest engagement platform. Open Tender provides customizable designs for branded restaurant websites, mobile apps and kiosks. As one...
Nextbite Builds on Stranger Things Hype with Noah Schnapp Partnership
Virtual restaurant provider, Nextbite, has partnered with Stranger Things actor Noah Schnapp and Kellogg on its latest brand called TenderFix. Focused on sandwiches, sliders and tenders, the delivery-only brand will include natural and plant-based chicken items,...
Qu Names Niko Papademetriou as Co-Founder
Restaurant technology platform Qu has appointed Niko Papademetriou to co-founder, by the company’s board of directors and leadership team. Niko serves as senior vice president for sales and business development and has been central to Qu’s growth for nearly a...
DoorDash Now Accepts Cash for Select Orders
With third-party delivery and digital payments among today’s norm, using cash for food deliveries seems somewhat taboo. It feels like long gone are the days of handing the driver a bill saying “keep the change.” However, despite the rise of e-commerce, paying...
Former Wingstop CEO Charlie Morrison Back to Building at Salad and Go
Editor’s note: Charlie Morrison is headlining this year’s Food On Demand Conference, happening May 3-5 at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Charlie will be interviewed on stage by Results Thru Strategy CEO Fred LeFranc at 1 PM on Wednesday, May 3. After a decade at the...
Presto, ChatGPT Collab to Make AI Drive-Thru Ordering More Human-Like
Presto Automation, a leading developer of restaurant voice AI, has collaborated with OpenAI to incorporate generative AI chatbot ChatGPT into Presto Voice, its drive-thru voice assistant. Presto Voice is deployed in chains throughout the U.S. including in over 600...
Lunchbox Unveils Catering Platform
Lunchbox, the online ordering engine and web-based marketing provider, has introduced Catering 2.0, a management suite for restaurants aimed to streamline the guest catering experience. Catering 2.0 integrates catering management into the same system as...
Meredith Sandland, Carl Orsbourn Publish Sequel to ‘Delivering the Digital Restaurant’
After publishing “Delivering the Digital Restaurant: Your Roadmap to the Future of Food” in 2021, co-authors Meredith Sandland and Carl Orsbourn have released the highly anticipated sequel, titled “Delivering the Digital Restaurant: The Path to Digital...
Grubhub CEO Adam DeWitt Steps Down After Long Tenure
Less than two years after Amsterdam-based Just Eat Takeaway.com purchased Grubhub and appointed long-time executive Adam DeWitt as CEO, the company announced he is stepping down from his position and leaving the company at the end of April. Current SkipTheDishes CEO...
Outstanding Operators
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