Fooda Acquires Foodsby, Joining Forces to Create New Opportunities for Clients and Local Restaurant Partners

Fooda, a leader in workplace dining solutions, is excited to announce it has acquired Foodsby, an innovator in the group delivery space. By joining forces under Fooda’s umbrella, the combined companies will offer expanded opportunities for clients and local restaurant partners, enhancing workplace dining experiences across the country. With this move, Fooda strengthens its ability to …

Company linked to Travis Kalanick brings bulk restaurant delivery to LA

A restaurant delivery business linked to CloudKitchens CEO Travis Kalanick has set up shop in Los Angeles, promising batched deliveries from multiple restaurants with no fees or tips.  LA-based Picnic refers to itself as a “digital food court” for office workers and apartment dwellers. According to its website, customers can use Picnic to order from …

Operators predict continued catering boom

Return-to-office is increasing demand for business catering as employers use meal plans to draw workers in-person, according to a survey from ezCater. Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Offering food through an employer-provided meal program can help a restaurant reach new customers. About 47% of people who had a restaurant meal through an employer ended up ordering from …

Bartaco parlays learnings from delivery into new catering program

Until late 2023, customers had to call or email their local Bartaco to place a group order for a catered office lunch or social gathering. “It was more informal and cumbersome,” said Lindsay Crasnick, director of digital experience + product for the Arlington, Virginia-based chain. Last November, Bartaco formalized the program, revamping the menu, partnering …

DeliverThat Integrates with Cartwheel

Cartwheel, a delivery management platform, offers software solutions to merchants for overseeing a hybrid off-premises strategy. Now, these merchants have the power to select who handles their catering deliveries, leveraging DeliverThat’s extensive fleet of top-tier drivers. “Cartwheel users can now efficiently oversee their delivery fleet through the Cartwheel software and driver app, with the added …

dlivrd and Incentivio Enter Strategic Partnership to Streamline Catering Delivery Experience

Last-mile Catering Delivery Leader Partners with Restaurant Guest Engagement Leader to Offer Simplified Ordering and Catering Delivery Processes dlivrd, a leading last-mile delivery provider, and Incentivio, the digital guest engagement platform that enables restaurants to leverage their own guest data and increase the lifetime value of their guests, today announced a strategic partnership to offer businesses …

Flex Catering enters US market with cloud-based platform

Australian catering software company Flex Catering has entered the US market with its cloud-based catering management platform. The company aims to fill gaps in the industry by offering a direct ordering and management system to improve and optimise catering operations. The platform will help restaurants and quick service restaurants in handling corporate catering needs with …

Olo’s Brings Catering, Dynamic Pricing to its Restaurant Base

With the launch of its new Catering+ service designed to streamline bulk orders for enterprise-grade restaurants, Olo has become the latest restaurant tech player diving into the category. The new features are designed to simplify the ordering and payment process for operators and customers, while integrating with existing ordering platforms.  The New York-based tech provider …

Inside Lunchbox’s ‘Hard and Heavy’ Move into Catering

The catering and workplace delivery category is heating up as Lunchbox, an online ordering and marketing provider, takes a big step into the category by hiring catering expert and MonkeyMedia founder Erle Dardick as its chief strategy officer. Dardick is one of the best known names in restaurant and foodservice catering, who sold Monkey, a cloud-based …

P.F. Chang’s Enhances Catering Capabilities with Cartwheel

Renowned restaurant brand P.F. Chang’s is revolutionizing its catering capabilities through a strategic collaboration with Cartwheel, the leading enterprise delivery management platform.   Cartwheel recently invested in integrating with ezCater, the most trusted provider of corporate food solutions. This integration further streamlines and optimizes catering management and delivery capabilities for the restaurant chain and centralizes once disparate …