Uber Eats to screen for food allergies, end automatic utensils and straws

September 27, 2019

Uber Eats is launching an initiative to make the food delivery business healthier and more sustainable, announcing that it will add allergy-friendly filters to…

DoorDash data breach affects 4.9M merchants, consumers, drivers

September 27, 2019

DoorDash said Thursday that earlier this month it determined that on May 4 an unnamed "third-party service provider" had gotten its hands on customers…

Pizza players see hefty hikes in cheese, wheat, gas prices

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Last week was harder to swallow than most on the markets for pizza brands, with only moderate gains in some pizza brand values, but steeply higher wheat…

1000 Degrees Pizza on wrangling 25+ delivery providers into better business

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

As third-party delivery platforms proliferate, pizza restaurateurs are challenged to lasso customers' demand into their daily business flow. After all, as…

As cheese prices surge, gas price spike set to also strike delivery-centric pizza biz

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

After weekend drone attacks sliced Saudi oil output in half, the delivery-centered pizza business may soon get a one-two punch from both higher gas prices, and…

Chowly, Revel debut third-party delivery-POS integration offerings

September 9, 2019

A number of restaurant ordering, payment and third-party delivery companies have announced they plan to give restaurateurs new ways to incorporate these vital…

Blaze gets 'large and in-charge'

September 9, 2019

Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza is now offering a large pizza, designed for sharing, according to a news release, which said that the menu addition is part of a major…

Doordash enters exclusive delivery partnership with Mod Pizza

September 4, 2019

Mod Super Fast Pizza Holdings said it will launch nationwide delivery under an exclusive agreement with DoorDash, which will provide on-demand mobile service…

August 2019 bids adieu to pizza brands ... with a kiss, especially for Papa John's

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

The final week of August was a relatively glorious one for most pizza brands, with all major pizza restaurant commodity prices on the wane, while stock values…

Falling gas prices this fall could be boon to pizza brands' balance sheets

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Okay, so the majority of publicly traded pizza brands took a bit of a bath on the stock market last week, but not all is lost. Falling gas prices -- with more…

Revention teams with DoorDash on mobile ordering, last mile delivery for restaurants

August 21, 2019

Revention, a Houston-based provider of mobile ordering and POS technology for restaurants, has entered an agreement with DoorDash to offer on-demand logistics…

Domino's takes a dive as gas demand soars to all-time high

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

National gasoline demand hit an all-time high last week, while Domino's stock value hit close to an annual low.

Domino's franchisee sees driver safety soar with GPS tracking system

August 15, 2019

One of the largest single-owned U.S. Domino's franchises reported a 69% drop in what it called "driver safety incidents" following activation of a GPS fleet…

Domino's deploys e-bike delivery nationwide in US

August 13, 2019

Domino's stores nationwide in the U.S. will soon have the option to use custom e-bikes for pizza delivery through the brand's partnership with e-bike brand…

(Lucky) dog days of August: Pizza stocks up, commodities down

As the oft-referred to 'dog days of August' wrapped up last week, pizza restaurateurs got a bone in the form of lower overall commodity prices and higher stock…

Removing friction in digital ordering, delivery discovery

by Jackie Berg — mArketing director, olo

Digital presence is everything today, but too many brands are unwittingly diverting sales to third-parties thanks to a cluttered digital path that drags the…

Grubhub announces policy changes following fracas over ordering fees

August 2, 2019

Restaurant delivery platform Grubhub and its Seamless unit, following a recent controversy over how the companies have handled fees, have announced a series of…

At 60, Pizza Hut makes 500-store move to become delivery-devoted brand

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

During Yum Brands' Q2 financial report conference call this week, the multi-brand company set off something of a pizza industry bomb when CEO Greg Creed…

Square sells Caviar food-ordering platform to DoorDash for $410M

August 2, 2019

DoorDash is buying food-ordering platform Caviar from Square for $410 million in cash and DoorDash Inc. preferred stock. 

California Pizza Kitchen launches nationwide 'take-and-bake' pies

August 1, 2019

California Pizza Kitchen or CPK said it's launching take-and-bake takeout and delivery pizzas across the country, greatly expanding the West Coast brand's…