Nude Dude Food Catering Startup Wins Pitch Competition by The Hatchery and Grubhub
For food industry startups, opening up a brick-and-mortar location can be a difficult, daunting task. To help entrepreneurs get it done, Grubhub and Chicago’s The Hatchery, a nonprofit incubator dedicated to fostering successful F&B businesses, teamed up to host a...
Winning Back Control: Third-Party vs Restaurant-Generated Orders
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 early days,...
Cibotica Debuts Automated Bowl Dispensing Tech
Cibotica, a Canadian-based food robotics company, has made strides in revolutionizing kitchen efficiency with the release of its flagship product Remy. Remy is an automated salad and bowl assembly line that’s capable of making up to 300 bowls per hour. “Our...
Outstanding Operator: Saigon Sisters
Kicking off the first feature of Outstanding Operators is Mary Aregoni of Saigon Sisters. Aregoni is being recognized for redefining the Chicago area food scene, serving a Vietnamese concept that has proven versatile in meeting different market venues and sizes....
Uber Eats Launches New Offers, Personalized Marketing Tools
Ahead of a busy holiday season when consumers say prices and promotions are their top consideration for purchases and ~77 percent cope with their busy schedules by ordering from restaurants, Uber Eats is launching three new offer types and new personalized marketing...
ConverseNow and ItsaCheckmate Collab to Make AI-Voice Ordering More Accessible
ConverseNow, an AI-powered voice-ordering solution for restaurants has teamed with third-party delivery aggregator and menu management company ItsaCheckmate. The move enables ConverseNow to integrate its technology with dozens of point-of-sale systems, significantly...
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...
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.