Category: Cloud Kitchens
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Burger King said over the weekend it is trialing its first-ever delivery-only restaurant, a location in London, UK that opened on Sunday. The burger chain said this new venture has the potential to reach over 400,000 customers in the North London area. For its first delivery-only initiative, Burger King has partnered with FoodStars, the commissary…
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For many, 2020 will go down in history as the year the restaurant biz changed forever. It could also be remembered as the year restaurants absorbed about 10 years’ worth of technological evolution in the span of a few months. But while last year was all about adopting restaurant tech to survive, the next few…
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Over the last year we’ve seen scores of brick-and-mortar eating establishments turn their restaurants into delivery-only concepts. C3, a hospitality company that runs a portfolio of virtual restaurant brands, has chosen to do things the other way around. This week, the company announced Citizens, a network of brick-and-mortar food halls for its virtual brands. The…
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San Francisco Bay Area-based All Day Kitchens (formerly Virtual Kitchen Co.) announced today it has raised a $20 million Series B round, bringing the company’s total funding to $37.5 million. This round was led by Founders Fund with participation from Khosla Ventures, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, and Opendoor CEO Eric Wu. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz…
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Restaurant supply chain software company ChefHero announced today it has officially rebranded as Notch and adjusted its business model to focus on digitizing the wholesale foodservice supply chain for both restaurants and distributors. As ChefHero, the Toronto, Ontario-based company’s platform mainly focused on connecting restaurants with suppliers, providing what was essentially a marketplace for buyers. For…
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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. When Berlin, Germany-based Delivery Hero launched its recent Tech Academy recently, it showed us one way to create both more and better jobs in the restaurant industry — and make those available to…
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This is the web version of our Weekly Restaurant Tech newsletter. Subscribe today to get weekly food tech news delivered directly to your inbox. When Taster, a virtual restaurant company headquartered in London, announced its $37 million fundraise last week, co-founder and CEO Anton Soulier made clear that his company is trying to “redefine what…
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Virtual restaurant company C3 and online order platform Lunchbox announced today the launch of a new restaurant app, CITIZENS GO. The app will provide ordering and delivery services for C3’s growing network of ghost kitchens, which number over 200 at this point, according to a press release sent to The Spoon. Via CITIZENS GO, which…
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Here’s a concept that seems stupidly simple but is actually a technologically complex feat: letting customers order from multiple virtual restaurants with a single digital transaction. As ghost kitchens multiply, the idea of housing multiple restaurant concepts under one roof grows ever-more commonplace, be it Kitchen United’s Mix platform, Crave Collective’s virtual food hall or…
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Delivery service Glovo announced today it has raised €450 million (~$528 million USD) in Series F funding. The round was led by Lugard Road Capital and the Luxor Capital Group, with participation from returning investors Delivery Hero, Drake Enterprises, and GP Bullhound. Barcelona, Spain-based Glovo says that this fundraise — its largest to date —…
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This shift towards delivery and other off-premises formats was already underway. Back in 2019, the National Restaurant Association predicted that by 2030 off-premises would drive most of the growth for restaurant sales. Suffice to say, the pandemic sped that timeline up. In the words of Ordermark’s cofounder and CEO Alex Canter (whose family also owns…
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Ghost kitchen/virtual restaurant network C3 (Creating Culinary Communities) today announced a partnership with apartment operator Akera Living to place ghost kitchens inside the latter’s Kenect communities. Kenect bills itself as a combination coworking space, social club, and residential community that’s become increasingly popular in urban settings over the last few years. Since the idea seems…
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