Category: Cloud Kitchens
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Virtual restaurant company C3 (Creating Culinary Communities) has raised an $80 million Series B funding round co-led by Brookfield Asset Management and REEF Technology. Egon Durban and Greg Mondre Managing Partners and Co-CEOs of Silver Lake Partners, along with Dean Adler, Co-Founder of real estate investment firm Lubert-Adler. C3’s business these days is as much…
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This is the web version of our newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. As we’re fond of saying lately, last year’s pandemic-induced chaos accelerated the restaurant industry’s adoption of technology so much that about a decade’s worth of changes happened in the span of a couple…
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Virtual food hall Local Kitchens has raised $25 million in Series A funding roughly one year after launching. The round was led by General Catalyst with participation from existing investors Human Capital and Pear VC. New investors Fifth Wall and Penny Jar Capital also participated. Local Kitchens says this round brings its total funding to…
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Italian-American mobility company Helbiz announced today it is launching its own ghost kitchen/food delivery/virtual restaurant business called Helbiz Kitchens. The concept will initially be available to customers in Milan, Italy, with plans to open additional locations in the U.S. and Italy in the future. Helbiz’ main service is operating fleets of e-scooters, e-bikes, and e-mopeds…
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In collaboration with TechTable and Culterra Capital, we are pleased to share an updated 2021 Restaurant Tech Ecosystem map, sponsored by Back of House, a community of restaurateurs to find and share top-reviewed tech solutions. Download the map here. It is an understatement to say that the restaurant industry went through a massive shift since…
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This is the web version of our newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. This time last year, the restaurant biz was grappling with pandemic-related shutdowns and restrictions and innovating on the fly to survive the fallout. Digital menus. Virtual tip jars. Ad-hoc drive-thru windows. These mannequins. …
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Unless you make a point of regularly ordering from virtual restaurants, you may not yet have heard of names like Sam’s Krispy Chicken or Plant Nation. They, along with many others, are delivery-only brands created by C3 (Creating Culinary Communities), a restaurant company that’s lately been on a mission to get these brands into seemingly…
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Vancouver, Canada-headquartered JustKitchen announced this week it is in the process of raising $20 million to expand its network of ghost kitchens and virtual restaurant brands. The company said it is getting $16 million from Canadian investment dealerr Beacon Securities Limited, which will buy 11.9 million shares of JustKitchen at $1.35 per share. JustKitchen is…
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Stockholm, Sweden-based ghost kitchen startup Curb announced this week it has raised a €20 million (~$24.4 million USD) round led by Point72 Ventures (h/t tech.eu). EQT, an existing investor, also participated in the round. Curb has now raised €23.2 million to date. Curb is only a little over one year old, having been founded in…
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Residents of Oakland, California are pushing back against the opening of a new ghost kitchen location from Travis Kalanick’s super-secretive CloudKitchens company (h/t Berkeleyside). The facility is slated to open in July. But in an online petition, residents argue that the city of Oakland issued permits for the building quickly “without public notice or any…
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Payments company Square recently made its restaurant software stack a little more versatile when it launched its Square KDS back-of-house display system as a standalone item available via subscription. The company says doing so will make Square KDS available to restaurant and kitchen operations that don’t necessarily have a POS system, or even a front…
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Bitcoin Pizza Day is coming up, which makes it an apt time to launch a bitcoin-themed virtual pizza restaurant. Anthony Pompliano, an entrepreneur and investor, announced today he is launching Bitcoin Pizza, a pop-up restaurant brand that will partner with independent pizza shops to deliver pies from May 22–29. (May 22 is the official Bitcoin…
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