by Tom Kaiser | May 10, 2019 | Best Practices, News, Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Fresh home from the Franchise Finance & Growth Conference in Vegas, I tallied the number of times I heard third-party delivery during the countless brand presentations throughout the three-day event—and it was a lot. The audience heard everything from “all in” to...
by Tom Kaiser | May 3, 2019 | Best Practices, News, Research, Third-Party Delivery, Top Stories
Pictured above: Stefania Mallett, co-founder and CEO of ezCater, addresses the crowd during her keynote address at the inaugural CaterUp conference. With approximately 300 attendees representing 185 foodservice brands, ezCater hosted its first CaterUp conference in...
by Tom Kaiser | Apr 18, 2019 | News, Research, Third-Party Delivery
Fresh off a healthy haul of $100 million in investor cash last fall and continued European expansion after acquiring GoCater, ezCater just landed another $150 million in fun money and acquired the Monkey Group, a Canadian software and training provider that’s the...
by Tom Kaiser | Mar 27, 2019 | News
Hot off the wire is news that Boston-based ezCater has acquired Monkey Group, an enterprise software and training company that’s the developer of Monkey, a cloud-based platform for takeout, delivery and catering. According to ezCater, this acquisition marries the...
by Tom Kaiser | Jul 12, 2018 | News, Third-Party Delivery
Third-party restaurant delivery has opened up the eyes and wallets of restaurateurs, tech investors and hungry consumers. Several years into this dinner-on-demand revolution, catering has emerged as an adjacent option to give restaurants another avenue for adding...