Survey: Drive-Thru Orders and Mobile App Usage at Restaurants Are Up
Consumers are using a mobile app more often than just a few months ago to order restaurant food, according to new survey data from Bluedot and research firm SeeLevel HX. […]
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Walmart Brings on Instacart for Same Day Grocery Delivery
Walmart has teamed up with Instacart to provide same day grocery delivery in four markets across California and Oklahoma, reports CNBC. Instacart users in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego […]
Recipes for Relief Ends Initial Run, Raised More Than $11,000 for Chefs and Bartenders
Recipes for Relief is ending its inaugural run today after raising more than $11,000 for foodservice workers like chefs and bartenders out of work because of the pandemic. The initiative […]
Food-X Gets $2.6M Grant to Build Out its E-Commerce Platform
Food-X Technologies, which creates a software platform to help retailers facilitate their online grocery shopping and delivery, announced last week that it had received a $2.6 million Canadian (~$1.95M USD) […]
AppHarvest Raises $28M as it Builds Out a Massive Greenhouse in Appalachia
Ag tech company, AppHarvest, announced yesterday that it has raised a $28 million Series C round of funding. The round was led by J.D. Vance’s Narya Capital, with participation from […]
The Real California Milk ‘Snackcelerator’ Opens Applications for Dairy Startups
You’ve heard about the uptick in snacking thanks to the pandemic. But perhaps no one is taking the rise of snacks more seriously than the California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB). […]
UK Regulators Finally Approve Amazon’s 16% Stake in Deliveroo
The UK’s Competition Markets and Authority (CMA) has at last approved Amazon’s 16 percent minority stake in food delivery service Deliveroo. The CMA’s findings, released today, note that the proposed […]
Vertical Farming Could Help Us Build a More Equitable Food System
One of the recurring questions vertical farming companies face is how they are going to get their locally grown, supposedly healthier wares to more than just those with disposable income. […]
Wawa Goes Beyond Standard Convenience Store Fare With a Plant-Based Breakfast
Like most other types of food businesses, the convenience store is changing due to the pandemic, and that includes what’s on the menu when it comes to food. In line […]
Amazon Q2: Online Grocery Sales Tripled Year-Over-Year
Amazon announced its Q2 earnings yesterday, and unsurprisingly, the company’s grocery business went gangbusters during that time. Amazon said that its online grocery sales tripled in Q2 compared with the […]
Woodman’s Market Adds Badger Technologies’ Robots for Shelf Scanning
Badger Technologies announced yesterday that its shelf-scanning robots will be roaming the aisles of Woodman’s Markets throughout Wisconsin and Illinois come the end of the year. According to a press […]
Finistere: Food Tech Investment Reached $4.8B in the First Half of 2020
An unusually high volume of food tech investment news has kept us on our toes all summer, and we’re not the only ones to notice. Food tech VC firm Finistere […]
