Dive Brief: Dive Insight: DoorDash’s Reporting API tool was created in response to restaurant feedback, the company wrote in an email to Restaurant Dive. When the platform rolled out its Report Builder feature set in 2022, which allowed merchants to create customized reports, restaurants — particularly multi-unit operators — requested more flexibility to access sales …
Continue reading “DoorDash’s latest tool allows merchants to download sales data”
Online ordering provider ChowNow laid off about 20% of its staff this week as it hunkers down for what co-founder and CEO Chris Webb likened to a storm brewing in the financial markets. The cuts, he said, will allow the company to weather the expected economic downturn without the help of outside funding. As inflation …
Continue reading “CHOWNOW LAYS OFF 20% OF ITS STAFF IN TECH’S LATEST CUTBACK”
Nextbite announced that producer and tech entrepreneur will.i.am joined the company as advisor focused on brand building and marketing strategies for its delivery-only restaurant concepts. In a press release announcing the news, Nextbite said the music producer and Black Eyed Peas frontman’s music career necessitates ordering delivery on the road and while in-studio, adding that he was …
Continue reading “Will.i.am Joins Nextbite as Partnership Advisor”
LAFAYETTE, LA – Lafayette-based Waitr announced it has expanded its partnership with the virtual restaurant company Nextbite. The updated deal adds even more of Nextbite’s delivery-only restaurants to the Waitr platform – significantly increasing customer options. New virtual restaurants – also known as ghost kitchens – that will soon be available are TZKi, Veg-e-licious, Hatch House, Crack’t and Lucky Dragon Fried Rice. …
Continue reading “Waitr Announces New “Ghosts” Restaurants To Platform In New Deal With Nextbite”
Geoff Madding, CEO of Nextbite, defines the concept as a “virtual kitchen.” Madding has a background in restaurants and startups. He combined the two to start Nextbite, which recently entered the Memphis market. The company began as an outgrowth of the tech company Ordermark, which consolidates the ordering process for restaurants using third-party delivery companies …
Continue reading “Denver-based ‘virtual kitchen’ concept enters Memphis market”
As the founder of Ordermark and its Nextbite virtual restaurant platform, Alex Canter has become one of the biggest names in the delivery space. Now that SoftBank has invested $120 million in his vision, Canter’s stature is expanding on expectations that one of its delivery-only concepts will perhaps become the next Domino’s Pizza—no pressure. While …
Continue reading “Alex Canter Talks Ordermark and Nextbite’s $120M War Chest”
