SpotOn Launches GoTo Place to Take on Restaurant Super Apps
POS provider SpotOn is taking aim at apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats with its own mobile ordering app. The company launched GoTo Place, a mobile app that lets you order pickup or delivery, make a reservation, join a waitlist, and collect loyalty points. Restaurants...
Behind the App, Balancing Innovation and Physical Reality
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. Food delivery...
What’s Next for DoorDash After Acquiring SevenRooms?
DoorDash announced on May 6 that it’s acquiring SevenRooms for $1.2 billion in cash. SevenRooms helps restaurants and hotels manage reservations and marketing. Why the move? To help restaurants grow their in-store business, along with delivery and takeout. In its...
Even In Its 106th Year, NRA Still Has The Ability To Surprise
When the first National Restaurant Association Show took place in 1919 in Kansas City, attendees didn’t much discuss technology. It was more food rationing and Prohibition. But this year in Chicago, tech was all the talk. Richtech Robotics had a hit on its hands with...
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.