food delivery

Amazon’s online grocery sales triple in Q2 as more people get food delivered amid pandemic - Geek Wire Amazon saw online grocery sales triple year-over-year during the second quarter as more customers get their groceries delivered versus going to a physical store amid the COVID-19 pandemic...

Why Do Food Delivery Companies Lose Money? - NY Mag Ranjan Roy has a great article on Substack about DoorDash and “pizza arbitrage”: Roy’s friend was first annoyed to discover that DoorDash was providing delivery services for his nondelivery pizzeria: taking web orders without his knowledge...

How to safely order food delivery, takeout and groceries during coronavirus quarantine - Cnet Keep yourself and your food or grocery delivery driver healthy and germ-free with these tips. If you're staying home more often as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, you might be wondering: Can I...

How to Buy Food Directly From Farmers - Food Network Get fresh-picked produce and more delivered to your door. The coast-to-coast shutdown has not just impacted businesses and restaurants — it’s eliminated much of the supply chain for farms around the country. Many farmers distribute to...

Food delivery from ghost kitchens brings restaurant-quality food to the masses - Fox Business The cost of running a restaurant in America is driving many business owners to rethink delivery. New York City-based restaurateur Barry Dry started a delivery-only burger business within his existing...

The Booming, Ethically Dubious Business of Food Delivery - The Atlantic Meal-delivery companies are the ultimate symbol of the most powerful force in business today: convenience maximalism. This is a blessed age for food in America—for dining out and cooking in; for recipe books, and TV...

Study finds 1 in 4 food delivery drivers take a bite out of your order - Chron One in four delivery food drivers admitted to taking food from a customer's order before dropping off the meal at its destination, according to a recent US Foods study. Twenty-eight percent of...

Amazon Shuts Down Food Delivery Service - npr One of the largest companies in the world, Amazon, just shuttered its food delivery service, Amazon Restaurants. But Amazon's fails are a bit different. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Amazon just closed down its food delivery service. It was called Amazon...

Food Flight: Eating In or Eating Out? - Memphis Flyer We had become embarrassingly close to addiction with food delivery services, until we stepped back from the brink and realized the consequences, not just monetarily, but socially as well. There was a time in the not-so-distant past when you...

Restaurants shrink as food delivery apps get more popular - The Star Don Fox, the chief executive officer of Firehouse of America LLC noticed something strange a couple of years ago: during the midday lunch rush, his sandwich shops were relatively empty, but sales were better than ever. “I'd be...

Does UberEats Really Think Food Will Be Delivered by Drones in Just 3 Years? - Food and Wine The idea of delivering things by drone has been a popular topic: All sorts of companies from Amazon to Domino’s have been testing the idea. But one big question remains: When will drone delivery not...

Uber pushes into drone delivery for food - Biz Women Uber Technologies Inc. wants to launch food-delivery drones by 2021, as the ride-hailing company continues to diversify its menu of business lines. The San Francisco-based company posted a job ad for a executive to spearhead...

9 best food delivery apps and how to choose among them - CNET You'll probably be surprised to realize how many options there are to use your phone to get a meal delivered from a restaurant nearby. When you're stuck in your pajamas and there's no food in the fridge, you don't have to settle...

The food delivery robots hitting a sidewalk near you - Axios Heading back to Axios' San Francisco office after a meeting with a Berkeley professor, I nearly collided with an icebox-sized tub with wheels and a flagpole, sporting Cal colors. What it's doing: The sidewalk robot is one of around...