Today in food commerce, Delivery Hero is ending its restaurant deals in Norway, and Friendly’s is opening a more digital-centric restaurant concept. Plus, Starbucks is reversing its decision to mandate vaccinations or weekly testing, and Andrew Robbins, CEO of Paytronix, discusses how restaurants can leverage...
The virtual delivery-only restaurant model may have been made possible in large part by aggregators, whose marketplaces made it possible for restaurants to develop a customer base without a physical storefront. However, as digital marketing tools have grown more sophisticated, virtual restaurants are growing increasingly...
With so many ghost kitchens — delivery-only restaurants with no consumer-facing physical location — having popped up during quarantine, restaurant operators are taking notice of the potentially very profitable model. In May, James Walker, SVP of restaurants for the iconic hotdog brand Nathan’s Famous, spoke...