Uber Technologies Inc on Monday said it would acquire Postmates Inc for $2.65 billion to expand its food delivery market share and significantly increase the business of supplying everyday goods at a time when the coronavirus has pummeled its core ride-hailing service.

In announcing the all-stock acquisition, the ride-hailing giant signaled its interest in all sorts of delivery, including groceries, a market currently dominated by Amazon and Instacart.

The competition for customers among DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats and rivals is going nationwide as they expand

Here’s what restaurants need to know about Uber buying Postmates.

The company started reopening dine-in service in May. McDonald's has already reopened dining rooms in 2,200 restaurants out of 14,000 restaurants in the country. However, the restaurants continue to operate via off-premise.

Amidst the 1,800+ c-stores it now aggregates are a small handful of locations that are actually their own “dark store” warehouses sold under “The Convenience Store” brand, promising free delivery of over 2,000 items in less than 30 minutes.

Amazon is planning to open cashier-less “Go” grocery stores in Redmond, Wash., and Washington D.C., as part of a broader grocery expansion.

Restaurant has eyes on ghost kitchens, nontraditional locations.

Brand debuts small-footprint delivery-only unit in Garland, Texas, following version last year in U.K.

Stop & Shop is adding more locations to its grocery Pick-up service this year and has boosted its e-commerce operations, the supermarket said on Wednesday.

Chipotle is now available nationwide on the Grubhub app and Grubhub.com

Delivery is Free July 3-5 on Doordash with the Purchase of Any Beyond Meat Epic Burrito or Beyond Meat Epic Burrito Meal

What is at the centre of the entire fleet is a state-of-the-art distribution centre, the size of 40 Olympic-sized pools in volume. That is 250,000 square feet of space filled with robots.

Pokeworks is serving the River West area of Chicago and is exclusively available on all major 3rd party delivery platforms starting Thursday, July 9.

h.wood just made some of its restaurants the most accessible they’ve ever been, launching delivery-only offshoots from some of its most popular spots.

Chef Tyler Akin, best known for Stock, his restaurant that pulls from a variety of Southeast Asian cuisines, is setting up a “ghost kitchen” at Stock’s Rittenhouse location to sell seafood under the name Anchor Light.

With its client roster rocked by the coronavirus pandemic, a local PR firm focused on the food and beverage industry is making its own adjustment to the times, joining forces with a peer that’s adding marketing services to its menu.

LA startup Bowlila shares a colony "ghost kitchen" with 25 other restaurants, each with its own small kitchen for takeout and delivery options.

Operators across segments are planning smaller locations optimized for off-premise as consumer habits change rapidly.

COVID-19 has sparked the popularization of low-key technologies and the mainstreaming of niche retail trends.

This emerging chain is constructing a prototype that caters to carryout and delivery.

In the restaurant industry, that’s now in flux, with many states only permitting outdoor dining and waiting to restore indoor dining, the concept of ghost kitchens, which offers delivery and pickup only from shared facilities, is suddenly on the upswing.

Dark kitchens, cloud kitchens, ghost kitchens, virtual kitchens…. These terms have been increasingly permeating consumers’ vocabulary, industry research papers and articles in recent times. But does anyone really know the difference between each of them?

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Dubai-based startup GrubTech, an end-to-end software platform enabling the digital transformation of restaurants and cloud kitchens, has raised $2 million in seed funding.

Airlift Technologies, a smart mobility startup based in Pakistan, has raised US$10 million in a series A1 round led by US-based Quiet Capital.

Foodtech Unicorn Swiggy on Monday said it has integrated its premium on-demand delivery platform Scootsy as well as its restaurant partners within the Swiggy platform. Swiggy acquired Scootsy in 2018 to offer quality experiences to discerning customers predominantly in upscale south Mumbai areas.

Cloud kitchens are better suited to the needs of socially distanced customers than traditional dine-in restaurants

Lite Bite Foods that runs various casual and fine-dine restaurant formats has stepped up plans to open over 35 cloud kitchens in five cities as uncertainty looms large over the fate of physical restaurants, prompting companies to create new revenue streams and service demand for online food orders.

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