Ordering delivery from restaurants used to be an occasional treat, but the pandemic and related restrictions have changed the way Americans eat, making delivery a mealtime mainstay in many households. This genie seems to be out of the bottle and isn’t going back, with many consumers looking for convenient ordering and delivery options to satisfy their cravings for convenience. Delivery aggregators...
A group of Greater Victoria restaurants has banded together to launch a reusable-container program with the aim of reducing single-use takeout items going to the landfill. The Victoria-based Bread and Butter Collective’s Eco Reusable Container program, which starts Saturday, comes as the popularity of takeout food has soared during the pandemic. Through the initiative, customers will be able to ...
Husband and wife, Emre Uzundag and Yonca Cubuk, say they are now "living their small dream", all thanks to a food delivery app. The Turkish couple moved to New York in 2020, and due to coronavirus they found themselves stuck in their small apartment in Brooklyn. Homesick, they started to cook more and more Turkish food, to help them cope with the stresses of lockdown. "Which was a mental necessity...
As restaurants look to boost their digital sales in 2022, some major brands are developing new restaurant formats with a focus on off-premise sales. For instance, at the 2022 ICR Conference this week, fast-casual chain Shake Shack discussed plans to try out drive-thru locations without dining rooms. “We’re … going to test [a drive-thru] in the in the New Jersey area…with limited to no seating insi...
The sharp rise in home deliveries during the pandemic has extended to food packages for those in need. The Food Bank of Delaware has partnered with DoorDash and Amazon in a pilot program for free home delivery of food boxes of food. With people using online services to order daily essentials or medical supplies, the increased need for food delivery during the pandemic was no different. Delivery be...
The fastening products industry is complex, involving myriad back-order products, custom requests and specific documentation about test reports and compliance. Along with that, there’s the added challenge of finding what you need. Buyers often find themselves visiting a dozen different websites to find the right nuts bolts, washers, screws and other products, emailing potential sources individuall...
Instacart battles restaurant aggregators, while grocery shoppers grow frustrated with empty shelves. Plus, investors back solutions that allow restaurants to take their digital presences into their own hands. Investors Bet Restaurant Apps Beat the Aggregators Today, technologies that can offer restaurants the tools they need to hold their own in the digital ordering space against third-party aggre...
Mobile ordering service ItsaCheckmate has launched an expanded partnership with Grubhub by adding Grubhub to its digital ordering platform. “Now, ItsaCheckmate can help restaurateurs using Grubhub save time and costs of labor while reducing order errors,” the company said in a news release Tuesday (Jan. 11). “ItsaCheckmate automatically ingests digital orders and prints them out just like in-house...
With food being a multiple-times-a-day necessity for consumers, fulfilling this need allows apps to embed themselves deeply in their users’ daily routines. Food delivery services, bringing meals to consumers’ doors with the speed and convenience they increasingly expect, have the opportunity to quickly become indispensable. Yet, while some apps have been able to parlay this relationship into other...
Around the world, in the competitive food delivery category, the win condition is shifting. Where in 2020 and 2021, the goal was to capture the largest market share, now the stakes are rising. On a call with analysts Wednesday (Jan. 12) discussing its fourth-quarter 2021 financial results, delivery giant Just Eat Takeaway shared that its goal now is to outperform rivals to the point where they bow...
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