Olive Garden Delves into Plans for Uber Eats Rollout
Last week, Olive Garden announced its decision to partner with Uber Eats for delivery, marking a significant shift in its service strategy. Historically, the chain has focused on its own catering, takeout, and curbside services, resisting the allure of third-party...
Fooda Gets Bigger and Smaller With Foodsby Acquisition
Fooda CEO Orazio Buzza knows all about the trend of employers using food as an enticement to lure workers back to the office. He’s all for it. He’s just not banking on it. Nor is he saying that it is the reason his company, which brings food from nearby restaurants...
DoorDash Now Helps Restaurants Create Custom Mobile Apps for Ordering
DoorDash has rolled out a new feature that lets restaurants create their own mobile apps for ordering. The delivery company announced it can help restaurants create branded, customizable apps with orders going straight to their POS systems. Dashers fulfil delivery...
Paris Baguette Modernizes Catering with Lunchbox
Paris Baguette, a global bakery-café franchise, is going all in on catering. Known for its pastries, cakes, breads, sandwiches and salads, the chain has partnered with restaurant tech provider Lunchbox to launch a catering suite of online ordering and backend...
Global Food Delivery Giants Navigate Economic Disparities
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. The global food...Katie Walker Rankin, Landry’s
Vice President Off-Premise Operations, Landry’s Katie Walker Rankin is Vice President of Off-Premises Operations at Landry’s, leading strategy and execution across ~500 restaurant locations and 60 brands. She oversees first-party digital ordering, third-party...Vicki Hormann, Applebee’s Grill + Bar
Executive Director, Off-Premise, Applebee’s Grill + Bar Vicki Hormann is Executive Director, Off-Premise & CRM of Applebee’s® Grill + Bar and Fuzzy’s Taco Shop. A seasoned leader with more than 20 years of experience, Vicki manages and develops an industry-leading...
Hurryio is a New Third-Party Delivery App in Key Biscayne. Can It Compete?
After years of running a successful 7-Eleven in Key Biscayne, Manny Paez had an epiphany: delivery. But not just for orders from his store. From restaurants and retailers throughout the island. It was a big idea and one he couldn’t shake, although he knew it wouldn’t...
Olive Garden Changes Its Mind About Delivery
Olive Garden has long held a zealous conviction that if you want breadsticks, you come in for breadsticks. But today it reversed course. Olive Garden’s owner Darden Restaurants announced that it has made an exclusive two-year deal with Uber to pilot a program in...
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