Tech Tracker: Is the restaurant technology space being overhauled?

Jun 15, 2023

Between layoffs at Olo and Grubhub, and the sale of Nextbite and Ordermark, the foodservice tech industry is going through some growing pains

Nextbite’s failures are a warning for the entire virtual restaurant industry

Jun 14, 2023

Do Nextbite’s layoffs and subsequent sale to its competitor signal a death knell for the virtual restaurant industry?

Unraveling the saga that has become Nextbite

Jun 14, 2023

SBE Hospitality Group and virtual brand platform C3’s founder and CEO Sam Nazarian has acquired Nextbite, just days after Nation’s Restaurant News reported that Nextbite’s order management arm, Ordermark, had been sold off to Indian...

Nextbite acquired by SBE Hospitality Group CEO Sam Nazarian

Jun 13, 2023

SBE’s virtual restaurant platform C3 was formerly a competitor of Nextbite and will now be its sister company just days after Ordermark was sold off to UrbanPiper

Ordermark U.S. business sold to Indian software company in wake of Nextbite layoffs

Jun 10, 2023

Following the third round of Nextbite layoffs, the virtual restaurant company’s online order management platform, Ordermark, will be sold to global SaaS platform UrbanPiper

Starbucks will roll out delivery-only locations in the future

Jun 08, 2023

Rachel Ruggeri, CFO and executive vice president of Starbucks, discussed the future of Starbucks at the TD Cowen annual Future of the Consumer conference

Jack in the Box works to capitalize on Del Taco synergies

Jun 08, 2023

Quick-service executives present at RBC Capital Markets Consumer Conference

Do pizza robots have a future?

Jun 08, 2023

Zume — once the preeminent name in pizza technology that made headlines and millions in startup funding in 2017 — has shut down more than three years after pivoting away from robot technology to sustainable packaging development...

$400+ million ex-pizza robot company Zume shuts down

Jun 05, 2023

Zume sold its robot pizza business in 2020 to pivot toward sustainable packaging and Picnic laid off employees earlier this year; what’s happening to pizza robots?

Yum CEO: ‘AI is going to change how we run our business’

Jun 02, 2023

Yum CEO David Gibbs said AI will be a positive for the restaurant company’s franchisees and their unit economics.