Editor’s note: It’s been a year since our last test of virtual restaurant brands (which included a YouTube burger from a strip club), so we decided to wade back in to see if delivery-only virtual brands have progressed in terms of packaging, quality and perceived...
Dometic, a Sweden-based mobile living solutions company, aims to disrupt the North American delivery market with its temperature-controlled, smart delivery box that keeps food hot or cold during the delivery process. Resembling a dorm-room fridge, the DeliBox is...
Swipeby has launched what it calls a pioneering tool to help restaurants generate realistic images based on menu descriptions and headlines. Called Swipeby Snapshot, the new feature incorporates Open AI and Stability AI text-to-photo models to help restaurants make...
As CEO Scott Lawton spurs the growth of Virginia-based Bartaco beyond its Mid-Atlantic home, he’s focused on avoiding some of the traps that have degraded the previous class of once-buzzy restaurants, especially homogenization. Highlighting his previous experience in...
Portillo’s CEO Michael Osanloo says his fast-casual brand is sitting pretty in a tenuous economy thanks to a three-part strategy exploiting the efficiency of multi-lane drive-thrus, luring “hero dads” inside the restaurants and doubling down on its most concentrated...
