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Like Neighbors Bringing On-Demand Care to Loved Ones
Everything about long-term illness is stressful, including wanting to help a friend or family member when you’re not geographically close enough to lend an actual helping hand. But there is help. By providing on-demand meal delivery and transportation services, Like...
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Grubhub’s Big New Dunkin’ Partnership
Staving off concerns that DoorDash was winning the delivery partnership game with uber-scale restaurants, Grubhub is trumpeting news that it inked a partnership with Dunkin’, the 14th largest U.S.-based franchise, with more than 9,400 restaurants in 41 states and more...
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Uber Food Delivery Drones Are Swooping In
Uber is set to begin its first consumer tests of delivering food by drones as part of a pilot program with the City of San Diego and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). With all the ongoing drone news and updates from Amazon to Domino’s Pizza and many others,...
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Delivery App Funnel Shows Many, Many Leaks
A new benchmark study of food delivery apps showed a lot of leaks between downloading and ordering. The good news is, app usage is growing. Research firm NPD Group announced that six in 10 digital restaurant orders are now done through an app. According to another...
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Sweetgreen Buys Galley Foods Meal Delivery Service
Sweetgreen, the healthy fast-casual brand that’s widely considered an early adopter of tech in the restaurant space, is also thinking big with its purchase of Galley Foods, a Washington, D.C.-based meal-delivery service that uses organic ingredients in its...
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Sweetgreen Buys Galley Foods Meal Delivery Service
Sweetgreen, the healthy fast-casual brand that’s widely considered an early adopter of tech in the restaurant space, is also thinking big with its purchase of Galley Foods, a Washington, D.C.-based meal-delivery service that uses organic ingredients in its...
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Delivery App Funnel Shows Many, Many Leaks
A new benchmark study of food delivery apps showed a lot of leaks between downloading and ordering. The good news is, app usage is growing. Research firm NPD Group announced that six in 10 digital restaurant orders are now done through an app. According to another...
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Like Neighbors Bringing On-Demand Care to Loved Ones
Everything about long-term illness is stressful, including wanting to help a friend or family member when you’re not geographically close enough to lend an actual helping hand. But there is help. By providing on-demand meal delivery and transportation services, Like...
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Uber Food Delivery Drones Are Swooping In
Uber is set to begin its first consumer tests of delivering food by drones as part of a pilot program with the City of San Diego and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). With all the ongoing drone news and updates from Amazon to Domino’s Pizza and many others,...
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New York City Looking Into Grubhub Charges
Details are few, but multiple reports suggest the New York City Council is looking into fees charged to restaurants by Grubhub and other delivery providers. First reported by the New York Post, a hearing is scheduled by the city council’s Committee on Small Business...
read moreConsumer Reports Rates Grocery Delivery Services
Looking at which online grocery delivery brands offer the freshest food the fastest and most cost-effectively, Consumer Reports just published a ranking that listed Target-owned Shipt as the best groceries-on-demand service. Consumer Reports is a subscription-based...
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Summer Orders: Less Soup, More Poke
Bite Squad, now a subsidiary of Waitr, released data around what people order during the summer months. In a list predicting this summer’s fastest-growing delivery items, the company pointed to high-growth items seen last summer between June 1 and August 31. This...
read moreUber is Building Virtual Restaurants Too?
Like Deliveroo overseas and DoorDash in the U.S., Uber is testing its own virtual kitchen concept. While the company hasn’t officially announced a delivery-only kitchen, an unnamed Bloomberg source told the publication that Uber has been leasing kitchen space in Paris...
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Burger & Lobster Launches First-Ever Full-Size Lobster Delivery
New York’s Burger & Lobster restaurant is launching what it calls the “first-ever hot, full-size” lobster delivery in the big city. Announcing the news on Valentine’s Day, the British-born restaurant brand is hoping fresh Atlantic lobsters become a tempting...
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Drones and Robots Flock to CES
Delivery and personal robots and underwater and aerial drones were on display at the 51st annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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