Investors hungry for near-term price rationalization in the industry could get smoked.

Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats will continue to slug it out in a profit-challenged business facing a government crackdown.

Tim Hortons U.S. is partnering with Grubhub to offer delivery in select regional markets, including Grand Rapids, Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, Rochester, New York, and Columbus, Ohio.

Customers in select cities in Latin America and Canada can order groceries through both the Uber and Uber Eats apps. And starting later this month, grocery delivery will be available in Miami, FL and Dallas, TX.

This could put the ride-hailing company in direct competition with Instacart.

Walmart+ will cost $98 a year and include same-day delivery of groceries, fuel discounts, and other perks.

Rouses is partnering with last-mile delivery drone startup Deuce Drone to conduct a test flight at a store in Mobile, Alabama.

With Amazon capturing so much of the online grocery market and having the most robust technology for brands to launch and grow the channel, it’s usually an easy choice for grocery brands to invest in this channel in the early stages of their digital transformation.

Supermarkets garner highest percentage of new online customers, Retail Feedback Group study finds.

Imagine drones racing through the skies, festooned with NASCAR-like logos, laden with boxes of comestibles as cohort drivers on the ground try to outwit each other to drop Pop-Tarts and paper towels at people’s doors.

Specialty grocer Fresh Thyme Farmers Market has launched same-day online grocery delivery via Shipt in 30 metropolitan markets across the Midwest.

Cloud Kitchen Start-Up Karma Kitchen Raises $318 Million for Expansion As Food Delivery Explodes During Pandemic

AlleyWatch caught up with CEO and Founder Tim Gjonbalic to learn more about Butler’s service and the pain points that it addresses. Butler is available in a number of fine NYC hotels and plans to expand to Miami, Chicago, and Washington D.C.

One analyst's estimated grocer margins by channel and model.

Ghost kitchens, or cooking facilities that produce food only for delivery with no dine-in or customer facing areas, could create a $1 trillion global opportunity by 2030, according to a Euromonitor virtual webinar presented by Euromonitor's Global Food and Beverage Lead Michael Schaefer.

The future of Chuck E. Cheese may be its delivery spinoff, Pasqually’s Pizza.

Demand for the Portland-based company’s farm-to-doorstep groceries has been surging since the outset of the pandemic, allowing MilkRun to expand to its first new market.

As previously outlined in the first part of this deep dive, several cloud kitchen business and operating models have emerged. Within this, it is the virtual brands that are the fastest growing segment.

At Wingstop Inc., talks of a ghost kitchen preceded COVID-19, but the chicken wing icon moved quickly to launch its first domestic concept in June as its sales imploded, with April 2020 same-store sales growth at more than 33.4 percent and a 65 percent increase in digital sales.

More than 420 Chuck E. Cheese’s units offer pizza, wings and dessert through third-party platforms

The company is now operating two delivery only brands called Vegas.Pizza and KO Sports Bar in the Las Vegas market. Both menus are available now on Postmates and Grubhub.

With thousands of restaurants threatened by COVID-19, this restaurant relief program by CloudChefs aims to help restaurants build a profitable Delivery-Only Restaurant in under 60 days.

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi shares the reasoning behind Uber’s new app redesign and his ambitious plan to make Uber “part of the heartbeat of every single city” as the company weathers the coronavirus.

GrubTech, an end to end SaaS platform enabling the digital transformation of restaurants and cloud kitchens, recently raised $2M in Seed funding from the region’s industry captains and family offices.

CloudKitchens is now leasing the first of its ghost kitchens designed from prefabricated shipping containers, tailored to drive-thru pickup and delivery at 358 W. 38th Street near the University of Southern California.

When dining rooms closed due to COVID-19, California-based Amici’s East Coast Pizzeria quickly shifted its 10 locations to takeout and delivery-only using its existing Your Fare online ordering system.

In the wake of the recent consolidation of third-party delivery providers, HT reached out to industry experts for their commentary on what this means for the future of third-party delivery and the possible implications for restaurants.

It’s clear what Uber gets out of this latest deal: market share. Between Postmates and its own delivery platform, Uber Eats, Uber will control 37 percent of food-delivery sales in the U.S., making it the No. 2 player in the delivery space, behind DoorDash (44 percent) but ahead of Grubhub (17 percent), according to the New York Times.

The two parties aligned on an aggressive brand & design sprint to be able to launch the company in June.

Asda has partnered with Uber Eats to offer customers a rapid delivery service to the doorstep in as little as 30 minutes*.

Restaurant operators across the UAE are actively working on raising awareness among customers about the struggles that they continue to face with the high commission rates charged by delivery aggregators during the Covid-19 pandemic.