EveryBite joins Olo to power personalized dining

EveryBite, a restaurant-technology company behind SmartMenu, is joining Olo’s partner ecosystem. The move is designed to help restaurants deliver more personalized and connected dining experiences by integrating EveryBite’s ingredient-first menu technology into Olo’s digital ordering platform. EveryBite’s SmartMenu is used in over 7,000 restaurant locations and has had over 7 million visits. The technology allows diners to …

DoorDash Acquires SevenRooms for $1.2 Billion in Bold Restaurant Tech Expansion

DoorDash announced it will acquire restaurant tech platform SevenRooms for $1.2 billion to expand its merchant tools and enhance its commerce platform. Multiple news sources confirmed the deal, quoting company statements. The acquisition coincided with DoorDash missing revenue expectations, making headlines across financial outlets and raising interest in its future DoorDash Acquires SevenRooms for $1.2 …

Pinpointing the right market can create big catering opportunities

Restaurants targeting their marketing efforts to smaller, more defined groups based on demographics, behaviors, and specific interests, can not only grow sales and loyalty, but also create additional revenue streams.  One such example of this is catering, which currently is experiencing a surge in popularity, industry experts at our recent Marketing Executives Group(Opens in a new …

DoorDash’s New Commerce Platform Opening Customer Data

Good LinkedIn post: just got off a call with a restaurant that’s moving to DoorDash’s new commerce platform. at first i wondered why and questioned it DoorDash is shipping an Owner.com-style stack: branded website + 1p online ordering + crm + email/sms + a cross-channel loyalty program all built on their marketplace rails the big …

Delivery apps don’t have to share data with NYC restaurants, judge rules

Delivery apps like DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub won’t have to share detailed customer data with restaurants in New York City, a federal judge said on Tuesday. Judge Analisa Torres ruled that a law requiring delivery services to hand over things like customers’ full names, email addresses, phone numbers and addresses violates the companies’ First …

Grubhub Taps Koddi to Grow its Marketing Platform

Koddi, the leading retail and commerce media technology for enterprises, announced its partnership with Grubhub to grow its marketing platform to include additional strategic advertising capabilities. Koddi’s advanced commerce media technologies provide the infrastructure for Grubhub to offer its merchants enhanced pre-checkout advertising capabilities including automated optimizations that continually fine-tune budgets, bids and more to drive higher …

Grubhub Enters the Ad Game, Taking on Uber Eats and DoorDash

Food-delivery platform Grubhub is launching an ads business. The company is pitching ad products to its core restaurant merchants to acquire new diners and drive repeat sales. The company is partnering with adtech firm Koddi to power ads on its website. Ads will appear when people search for specific cuisines or when people are searching for local restaurants. Grubhub …

DoorDash launches commerce platform for merchants to expand

American food ordering and delivery company DoorDash has introduced a comprehensive suite of products designed to empower merchants to manage and expand their businesses on their own channels. The newly launched products comprising the DoorDash commerce platform can aid merchants to grow and run their businesses on their own channels, whether operating in-store or online. …

Chipotle, Sweetgreen leverage DoorDash’s new ad platform for restaurants

The delivery platform also added offsite capabilities and sponsored brand placements for CPG brands as delivery platforms race to improve ad offerings. Dive Brief: Dive Insight: DoorDash’s double shot of new capabilities looks to offer enterprise restaurant marketers and CPG brands better ways to connect with its millions of consumers — and the first-party shopping …

DoorDash launches marketing tools for restaurants

Photo: DoorDash DoorDash has launched Ads Manager for Enterprise Restaurants, a platform offering self-serve tools to help businesses connect with customers, run campaigns and collaborate with partners. Ads Manager’s suite of features includes: “From day one, we’ve been working hard to help businesses grow by providing them with tools that are easy to use,” Vassili Samolis, …