Sentences with phrase «of food delivery»

While they all share a common goal of getting food to the customer, there are several types of food delivery services.

MR: Another interesting thing, there is a chain of food delivery places and they are working on integrating Bitcoin payments.

This exhibition press cites the increasingly antisocial world of food delivery apps such as Seamless and home shopping options such as Amazon as evidence that humans need more intimacy.

You can create an interesting backyard environment by using some of the food delivery toys.

TORONTO — Fresh fruit and vegetable prices may be climbing at a rapid rate, but the costs of food delivery box subscriptions are holding steady as economic and weather forces align to make local food a better deal.

These customer experience benchmarks include the quality and variety of food and beverages, restaurant layout and cleanliness, and service elements such as staff courtesy, food order accuracy, and speed of food delivery to the customer.

This week has been brimming with rumors on Alibaba's takeover of food delivery platform Ele.me.

«It's reminiscent of the early days of food delivery, even before Seamless and GrubHub, and you see how many companies that industry has supported.»

After revelations that personal data of food delivery app users is readily available for sale through several channels for as little as RMB 0.10 per pe...

And to be fair, a number of food delivery startups have failed.

It said in April it would seek full control of food delivery service Ele.me, conferring a value of $ US9.5 billion on a company that's locked in a cash - burning battle with Tencent - backed Meituan Dianping.

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

The source pointed out that Didi has been engaged in the R&D of food delivery service for quite a while.

While Square is best known for its payment software and hardware, it's also been expanding into other areas; for example, with the acquisition of food delivery service Caviar and corporate catering startup Zesty.

The service is a way for Walmart to use it wide fleet of stores to counter Amazon's aggressive expansion of its food delivery service.

Still, shares of food delivery company Blue Apron were up about 0.18 % by the market's close while the S&P 500 Index was down 0.21 %.

Yum China, under new boss Micky Pant, is facing a cocktail of challenges in China: a slowing fast - food market, the rise of food delivery apps creating an online price war, and a lack of local franchise partners.

Take Uber, for example: The ride - sharing company has taken a foray into the world of food delivery, and the service — which, according to The New York Times, is available in 120 markets worldwide — sometimes earns more than Uber's original offering.

Not exact matches

When the co-founders of organic food e-commerce company Thrive Market saw an Instagram of a bear mauling one of their deliveries, they were oddly delighted.

Fill your cart by shopping the Express and Standard Boxed items (which are kept separate for your convenience, as you can see above), choose a delivery date and time slot when you'll be home to receive them at checkout (up to 5 days in advance), and one of Boxed's «Boxed Shoppers» will head to the store, shop for you, and deliver the fresh foods to your door at the chosen time.

Many new food delivery services are targeting corporate clients instead of individual consumers, understanding that the value proposition might be greater at the corporate level.

This operations exec explains how delivery has evolved — and why a better understanding of how food is prepared will give it an advantage.

We believe our focus on food innovation and customer experience, together with the execution of strategic priorities in digital and delivery, has enabled us, and will continue to enable us, to build a stronger Yum China,» said Joey Wat, CEO of Yum China.

Xuhao is the CEO of Ele.me, China's leading food delivery startup, which is valued at approximately $ 6 billion and counts Alibaba and Tencent among its investors.

Hungry and frustrated at having to call a bunch of restaurants, Matt Maloney and Mike Evans wondered why there wasn't a one - stop shop for food delivery.

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.

«There have always been high - end, get - what - you - want - when - you - want - it food services,» says Tri Tran, co-founder and CEO of Munchery, a chef - driven delivery service operating in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Seattle.

Hopefully that will all be sorted out by tomorrow morning, or else I'm going to have to hit up one of the food ingredient delivery apps and then hire a chef through yourChef.

Home delivery of freshly prepared meals, meal kits and provisions took off in 2015, with dozens of new ventures kicking into gear, each with its own spin on convenient, healthful food.

Entrepreneurs chase fads and trends (witness the explosion of food - delivery apps).

• Delivery Hero, a Berlin - based food delivery service, said it would raise about 927 million euros, or $ 1.04 billion in an offering of up to 39 million shares on the Frankfurt Stock EDelivery Hero, a Berlin - based food delivery service, said it would raise about 927 million euros, or $ 1.04 billion in an offering of up to 39 million shares on the Frankfurt Stock Edelivery service, said it would raise about 927 million euros, or $ 1.04 billion in an offering of up to 39 million shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Although Istanbul is now known as the «Digital Bosphorus,» less than four percent of Turkish residents had access to the Internet at the time, and most food deliveries happened by phone, if at all.

It's put billions of dollars to work in ride - hailing companies across the globe, including Uber and China's Didi Chuxing, and hundreds of millions into start - ups in many other categories, including dog - walking company Wag (it invested $ 300 million), food delivery provider DoorDash (it led a $ 535 million round), and virtual reality infrastructure provider Improbable (it led a $ 502 million round).

Speaking of China, the country's fast - food market is undergoing a shift as internet companies Alibaba and Tencent get involved in delivery.

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.

As a result, they're kept out of grocery stores and food service deliveries — and tossed in the landfill.

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.

Analysts and investors have speculated that Amazon is aiming to combine its expertise in order fulfillment with the grocer's facilities to build out delivery of fresh food, but the online retailer has not yet detailed its plans.

We volunteered trucks for many critical efforts, including delivery of life - boats, food and supplies for first responders.

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.

Uber has been testing the food - delivery service inside of its main app for the better part of the past 18 months, but it then launched as a standalone app available in Toronto, Wired reported last month.

But unlike the majority of the onslaught of food - delivery startups, Uber started with a reputation for immediacy, which could give it a leg up.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

Cowen's analysts say that UberEATS — along with a bunch of competitors in the food - delivery - startup space — could capture 50 % of the food - delivery industry's growth in the 2015 fiscal year.

You have services like Blue Apron, Plated, and HelloFresh, and then you have a whole category of on - demand or plan - ahead meal - delivery and food delivery startups like Munchery, Caviar, Maple, Tapingo, Postmates, and DoorDash.

Food delivery was one of the most hyped spaces in 2015 with venture capital reaching a record high of $ 1.5 billion in the fourth quarter, according to CB Insights.

Fast food delivery has become a growing trend as restaurant chains try to boost the convenience factor of their food to keep customers satisfied.

«We're still in the early stages of delivery in franchising, but I can see this becoming a much more common way of ordering food,» says Marty Ferrill, president of the Philly Pretzel Factory, a 159 - unit brand that sells soft pretzels, pretzel dogs and other snacks.

Alibaba has purchased the remaining 57 % stake of China food delivery app Ele.me it doesn't already own, bringing the app's valuation up to $ 9.5 b. Tech companies such as Alibaba and Tencent, which has invested billions of dollars in Meituan - Dianping, are eager to cash in on China's growing online food delivery market, which is expected to grow 18 % to 241 billion yuan ($ 38 billion) this year.