Food

The distinction between eating away from home (restaurants) and eating at home (groceries) is blurring as consumers use connected devices and apps integrated with payments, to move seamlessly between buying restaurant food to eat at home and groceries and prepared food at the grocery store or convenience stores to cook at home.

Tapping Into Unattended Retail For Healthy, On-The-Go Fare
Tapping Into Unattended Retail For Healthy, On-The-Go Fare
May 29, 2019  |  Retail

To bring nutrient-dense meal options into buildings, prepared meal companies are turning to unattended retail. Alpaca Market, for instance, has a network of vending machines...

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Lyft’s Grocery Access Program Expands In US, Canada
Lyft’s Grocery Access Program Expands In US, Canada
April 25, 2019  |  Ridesharing

Lyft announced that its Grocery Access Program is expanding into other cities in both the United States and Canada. Research has shown that there is...

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Square Teams With Washington Nationals On In-Seat Concessions
Square Teams With Washington Nationals On In-Seat Concessions
March 29, 2019  |  Digital Payments

Payments company Square has partnered with the Washington Nationals and Levy Restaurants to let fans order concession menu items right from their seats, according to...

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Will Subscription Coffee Carry The Breakfast Wars?
Will Subscription Coffee Carry The Breakfast Wars?
March 26, 2019  |  Retail

Breakfast, we have been told since time immemorial, is the most important meal of the day. But it’s not because medical science has told us...

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Will Amazon Pay Plus Worldpay Conquer Food?
Will Amazon Pay Plus Worldpay Conquer Food?
March 25, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Most of the payments chatter last week focused on FIS’ mega acquisition of Worldpay. The topic of conversation was the inevitable consolidation of the payments...

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Starbucks Invests $100M In New Valor Fund Focused On Food Startups
Starbucks Invests $100M In New Valor Fund Focused On Food Startups
March 20, 2019  |  Investments

Starbucks announced Wednesday (March 20) it is investing $100 million in the new Valor Siren Ventures fund, which aims to invest in the next generation...

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Why The Dollars Are Actually The Greatest Show On Turf
Why The Dollars Are Actually The Greatest Show On Turf
February 02, 2019  |  Retail

Rumor has it, there is some sort of football competition happening in Atlanta this weekend. We are mostly kidding about that. As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is,...

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Tapping Into Mobile Order-Ahead With Fixed-Price Menus
Tapping Into Mobile Order-Ahead With Fixed-Price Menus
January 23, 2019  |  Retail

While working in Washington, D.C, TwentyTables Founder and CEO Alex Cohen thought he had three options for an affordable lunch: He could pack a brown...

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Tackling Restaurant Waste With Mobile Apps
Tackling Restaurant Waste With Mobile Apps
January 16, 2019  |  Retail

Restaurants often prepare too much food for the lunch or dinner rush, but startups are providing them with an avenue to market their surplus meals....

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