DoorDash winds down restaurant discovery app Zesty

Zesty, the AI-powered restaurant discovery app launched last year by DoorDash, will soon be no more. At least not as a stand-alone app.  In an email sent to Zesty users on Friday, DoorDash said it will incorporate parts of Zesty into the regular DoorDash app. These include personalized restaurant recommendations and “conversational” search. “We built Zesty …

Zesty: AI review and suggestion app by DoorDash

Harsh early review inbound: Zesty by DoorDash is severely flawed. Launched yesterday, I’m floored by how inaccurate the restaurant recommendations are. I would never give a “review” or pass judgment on its first day or week a new restaurant opening, but products multi billion dollar tech companies are different and it feels like no one …

Square acquires corporate catering startup Zesty

Square  has acquired elements of corporate catering startup Zesty . Square, which already owns on-demand food delivery service Caviar,  plans to use Zesty’s assets to strengthen Caviar’s corporate ordering business, Caviar for Teams. …Zesty currently partners with about 150 restaurants in San Francisco, which is the only city in which it operates. Some of Zesty’s customers include Snap, Splunk and TechCrunch. Zesty, …