Food Ordering Technology

Toast has acquired Sling, an employee scheduling, communication and management platform. Through features including scheduling templates, in-app messaging and multi-location team management, Sling helps a restaurant's staff more efficiently and better manage labor...

Uber and Grubhub have both severed ties with Russian technology giant Yandex. When war between Ukraine and Russia broke out, Uber Technologies removed three of its executives from the board of a joint venture between Uber and Yandex. Uber had previously started to...

Uber Eats is planning to start autonomous food deliveries sometime in early 2022. The company has partnered with driverless technology company Motional. The food will be delivered in modified Hyundai IONIQ 5 vehicles and take place in California. The project will be...

ShopRite, a division of Wakefern Food Corp., plans to begin testing robot delivery at two stores in Pennsylvania. The robots, built by Tortoise, are controlled remotely and allow ShopRite to offer same-day delivery. The tests are set to begin in October. “We are...

OrderNerd co-founders Stephen Gladney and Justin Barber were eating at a restaurant a few years ago and noticed the establishment had four different tablets, one for each third-party delivery service. The process was awkward and cumbersome. They talked about the...

Walmart is starting a last-mile delivery service and plans to use the effort to further push into drone and autonomous vehicle delivery. Called Walmart GoLocal, the service connects retail customers with a non-Walmart-branded delivery drivers. “In an era where...

POS and third-party delivery integration is a challenge for many restaurants. To help, Olo and Grubhub have a partnership to integrate third-party delivery orders into the POS. Through the program, which is called Olo Rails, restaurants can publish their menus, prices...

In 2013, when Amazon’s Jeff Bezos talked about drone delivery, some people laughed. They never thought “little toy airplanes” could be trusted to deliver packages. The future is now. Walmart, Amazon and other major retailers are actively testing drone delivery, and a...

College campuses continue to be a place where robot delivery is making huge advancements. Sodexo, in cooperation with Kiwibot, is rolling out robot delivery at three universities in the United States this fall. Sodexo provides food service and facilities management at...