Sentences with phrase «from food delivery»

SPACE PROGRAM: MARS is a demonstration of all that is necessary for survival, scientific exploration, and colonization in extraterrestrial environs: from food delivery systems and entertainment to agriculture and human waste disposal.

Drones and robots will soon do everything from food delivery to household chores and even provide companionship.

Buy a certificate from a food delivery service or a local catering company, or purchase a certificate to their favorite restaurant that delivers.

Buy a certificate from a food delivery service in their area, or spring for a certificate at their favorite restaurant (just make sure they deliver).

In his first interview with a Western media publication since 2015, the 39 - year - old entrepreneur said he aims to double his user base, which currently offers everything from food delivery to movie tickets to wedding photography to more than 300 million Chinese consumers.

From food delivery, to transportation, to finding restaurants and bars — our world is increasingly becoming automated by technology.

Meituan - Dianping, one of China's highest - funded startups offering services from food delivery to hotel bookings, announced it was buying Tencent - backed Mobike for approximately US$ 3.4 billion, the largest bike - sharing deal to date.

Because of what Sinek characterizes as «faulty parenting,» corporations are faced with millennials who are «hard - wired» to get much of what they want right away, from food deliveries to entertainment on demand.

Not exact matches

DoorDash's «dashers,» its delivery people, will bring customers their choice from 250 «curated» items at 7 - Eleven, ranging from kitchen essentials to snacks and fresh food.

Large though that figure may seem, analysts say it's within investor expectations: Delivery Hero, which brokers deliveries from a network of restaurants or brings the food to customers» homes via courier, was most recently valued at between 3.5 billion euros ($ 3.9 billion) and 4 billion euros ($ 4.1 billion), when it raised funding from Naspers, a South African e-commerce company.

The company dropped its instant delivery service in New York City from its food - delivery platform, UberEats, within one month of announcing its launch.

The grocery delivery model is attractive because it guarantees that customers are getting fresh food straight from their local supermarket, without having to waste time in the store.

Co-founders Caleb Merkl and Akshay Navle hatched the idea after realizing how inconsistent and disappointing it could be to order delivery from restaurants — everything from an overwhelming number of choices to poorly packaged food that arrived cold.

Meal kits and food delivery services from the likes of Instacart and Google Express are all part of the broader disruption of the $ 781.5 billion U.S. grocery market that has seen little disruption from e-commerce players until recently.

Starship's friendly little 40 - pound bots have been delivering food from restaurants in Washington, D.C., and Redwood City, Calif., since earlier this year, thanks to agreements with food delivery companies Postmates and DoorDash.

While 365 takes aim at budget gourmets and cash - strapped «millennial moms», grocery experts said it also needs to appeal to people who buy from a range of other food sellers, from Kroger and Walmart to Amazon.com, restaurant delivery companies and meal kit providers such as Blue Apron.

Lots of third - party delivery companies have rushed in to meet this need, and they may seem interchangeable to most consumers: After all, if Delivery.com, Seamless, Orderup and others all deliver the same food from the same restaurants, what's to differentiate them?

On Tuesday, the food delivery startup hoping to reinvent frozen's reputation in the era of clean eating announced that it had raised some $ 43 million in a second round of funding, led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaun White.

For example, a pizza brand that offers a delivery service could post several tweets encouraging people to order food on the night a popular show comes back on the air, saving them from having to cook and potentially disturbing their time in front of the television.

Creator Arber Puci said the app spawned from the idea that everyone has friends and family who are amazing cooks and can use that talent to make some extra money, while consumers will find it cheaper than restaurants, take - out joints or other food delivery services such as Uber Eats.

Food delivery apps are gaining ground in China, thanks to backing from the biggest Internet firms.

However, HelloFresh faces mounting competition from deep - pocketed rivals such as Amazon.com as it moves to increase food delivery services after acquiring the Whole Foods grocery chain in August.

San Francisco may soon ban food delivery robots from its streets and sidewalks because of fears they may be obstacles to elderly people, children, and people with disabilities.

«Food has been insulated from the e-commerce revolution over the last 20 years, but the reality is consumers are going online, they are expecting mobile, and they want the ultimate convenience,» said Michael Wystrach, co-founder and CEO of meal delivery service Freshly, in an interview with Fortune.

Startups in the food and grocery ecommerce and delivery industry attracted almost $ 500 million in venture capital over the last year, a 51 percent increase from last year, while big players such as Google and Amazon continue to outdo each other with new delivery options.

Facebook launched a service earlier this month that would allow users to order food from restaurants such as Papa John's and delivery services such as GrubHub and Amazon - partner Olo.

Amazon's grocery delivery service costs $ 299 per year, and delivers thousands of grocery products from fruits and vegetables to food from local merchants within a day or less to customers in metropolitan areas within northern and southern Calif., as well as New York City and Seattle.

From charred desserts to the proliferation of delivery apps, here are some developments in the food world to watch out for in the coming months.

She estimates that $ 733 million has flooded into in food tech delivery over the last six months from U.S. private investors, representing 57 % of the total invested in food tech.

E-commerce segment includes our Yandex.Market service; Taxi segment includes our Taxi business (including Yandex.Taxi and Uber in Russia and neighboring countries) and Food Delivery business (including Yandex.EATs and UberEATs); Classifieds segment includes Auto.ru, Yandex.Realty and Yandex.Jobs; Media Services segment includes KinoPoisk, Yandex.Music, Yandex.Afisha and Yandex.TV program; Media Services were broken out from Experiments and now constitute a separate business unit; Experiments segment includes Zen, Yandex.Cloud, Yandex.Health, Yandex.Drive and Yandex Data Factory.

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The latest autonomous robots to hit the streets with food delivery orders are from Marble, a San Francisco startup that is partnering with Yelp to navigate crowded city streets and deliver your pad thai before it gets cold.

One of China's leading food delivery startups ele.me is about to receive US$ 1 billion funding from Alibaba and its financial affiliate, Ant Financial.

In the hyper - competitive food - delivery business, startups are hoping to hook customers with subscription memberships and keep them from jumping to competitors that peddle discounts.

Revenue for Caviar, our food delivery service, is also included in software and data product revenue and is derived from seller fees, which are a percentage of total food order value, delivery fees, which are fixed per transaction, and service fees paid by the consumer based on total food order value.

In December, Ola acquired the Indian business of food delivery platform Foodpanda from its Germany - based parent Delivery Hero in an all - stodelivery platform Foodpanda from its Germany - based parent Delivery Hero in an all - stoDelivery Hero in an all - stock deal.

In addition, Caviar generates revenue from fees charged on food deliveries.

Before dating, the social networking behemoth has expanded into numerous other features pioneered by other tech companies, ranging from job postings to payments and online food delivery.

The CEO of a German food delivery service is aiming to break even in 2018, despite competition from Amazon and Uber.

Grocery food delivery service Instacart, which is facing intense competition from Amazon now that the eCommerce giant owns Whole Foods Market, has...

The chart below from the Business Insider article shows the market shares of the major food delivery companies.

That said, there is fierce competition for those food delivery dollars, including from technology behemoth Amazon.

Gaidar rightly feared that with the collapse of central planning and the lack of incentives for delivery of food supplies from rural to urban areas, the cities might even be without food unless price controls were quickly lifted.

It covers an automated food service ordering system comprising non-transitory computer - readable media storing executable instructions to obtain historical context data indicating past statuses associated with one or more customers; obtain historical menu item ordering data indicating past times during which customers ordered menu items from each of multiple food services; obtain context data from a personal electronic device that indicates current, recent or scheduled statuses of a user, including caloric intake or exercise activity; determining a future time for delivery of a menu item based on the obtained data; selecting a future food service from the multiple food services; determining a lead time for an order for the menu item; and initiating the order for the future food service by at least the lead time.

Didi Chuxing made its first push into the food delivery market nearly a month ago but is already the ride - hailing giant is facing a pushback from its d...

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Many believe digital technologies will move into the mainstream of healthcare delivery in 2018 — particularly with strong support from both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

On Monday, Mumbai - based Poncho Hospitality Pvt. Ltd, which owns and operates on - demand food delivery services firm Box8, raised $ 7.5 million (Rs 50 crore) in Series B funding from IIFL Seed Ventures Fund and existing investor Mayfield.

Facebook's new reputation as a threat to start - ups is a reversal from several years ago, when a wave of start - ups, from dating and food - delivery apps to political consultancies, were able to grow by targeting their customers» friends — and friends of friends — on Facebook.

Instead of bowing out under pressure from national competition, local food delivery services in smaller markets across the U.S. are seeing sales lifts and renewed restaurant partnerships as Grubhub and Uber Eats show up on their scene.