Just Eat Takeaway is selling Grubhub to Wonder, a delivery-focused restaurant chain, for $650 million just four years after acquiring the U.S. food delivery app in a multibillion-dollar deal. The Netherlands-based food delivery group, Europe’s largest, has been evaluating a departure from the U.S. since 2022 after a long and difficult road. Grubhub struggles with slow growth, eyes reinvention …
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Sam Nazarian buys Kitchen United IP, forms new virtual brand platform
Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Everybody Eats is staking out ambitions comparable with the failed business forecasts of ghost kitchen pioneers. The press release states the platform will leverage “rapidly evolving customer preferences through use of technology, AI, use of retail space and the expansion into CPG, supermarkets, convenience, casual dining, education, hospitality, limited service hotels all within …
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C3’s Sam Nazarian Talks Purchase of Kitchen United Assets, Outlook on Ghost Kitchen Space
Sam Nazarian, CEO of digital restaurant company C3 and sbe hospitality group, has acquired Kitchen United’s IP (intellectual property) and ghost kitchen-related assets. Once a leader in the ghost kitchen space, Kitchen United shuttered its physical locations late last year. The virtual commissary operator combined elements of delivery technology, real estate and virtual restaurant brands …
Uber Eats is shutting down thousands of virtual restaurants to make the app less spammy
Uber Eats is delisting some of the delivery-only restaurants on its app to help weed out low-quality listings, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company has confirmed to The Verge that it’s introducing a new set of standards for virtual restaurants that should help cut down on listings that sometimes contain the same menu. Virtual restaurants, which are …
Empower Delivery Encourages Restaurants to Go All-in on Delivery
Two big names in delivery have teamed up to bring independent restaurants and ghost kitchens a solution that could dramatically improve the economics of their delivery programs. But as restaurant executive Meredith Sandland and ClusterTruck founder Chris Baggott explain, this holy grail of profitable delivery requires restaurants to go all in with their own driver …
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Qdoba enters Austin, Texas, via Reef ghost kitchens
Dive Brief: Qdoba will sell its menu from two Reef Technology ghost kitchens in Austin, Texas, the Mexican chain announced Friday. Offerings from these locations will be available on DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, Postmates and Deliveroo. This partnership marks Qdoba’s official debut in both the Austin market and the ghost restaurant space, CMO Karin Silk said …
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Kitchen United CEO, CBO Detail Plans for $100M Investment
Kitchen United raised $100 million and announced plans to grow from 15 to 500 locations in the coming years, partly with Circle K, a partnership that could rival its work with Kroger. The Pasadena, California,-based ghost kitchen operator said it will also push into stadiums as part of its next phase. The funds, raised from …
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BURGERFI AND GOPUFF EXPAND DELIVERY PARTNERSHIP TO 30 LOCATIONS
BurgerFi and Gopuff are expanding a unique delivery partnership that will bring the 116-unit burger brand to more than 30 new locations across the U.S. Gopuff, an “instant commerce” app that delivers thousands of consumer packaged goods from a network of fulfillment centers, has ventured into the restaurant business over the past year with its …
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Marc Lore’s Wonder Raises Another $350M
Wonder, a truck-based restaurant delivery service started by Jet.com founder Marc Lore, raised an additional $350 million through a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital just six months after launching the company. This latest investment follows previous investment rounds totaling more than $500 million dollars. Various media reports pegged the New York-based company’s …
DoorDash Kitchens Expands to Downtown Brooklyn
Nearly three years after opening its first eponymous ghost kitchen in Redwood City, California, DoorDash opened its latest DoorDash Kitchens facility in downtown Brooklyn with a mix of local, regional and national restaurants. This new East Coast location is clear evidence DoorDash is scaling up its shared-kitchen offering that allows restaurants to outsource all operations, including cooking, …
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