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TripAdvisor Subsidiary Buys South American Restaurant Reservations Platform

5 years ago

TripAdvisor has grown its commercial restaurant business by focusing on underpenetrated parts of Europe through TheFork. Now, the company has set its sights on South America.

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Ghost Kitchens and Delivery Services: February Restaurant Industry Funding

5 years ago

The big winner this month? DoorDash, which has now raised over a billion dollars in funding in less than a year.

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South Korea’s Largest Delivery Service Will Use Robots by 2022

5 years ago

The company wants to reduce delivery-related accidents, and lessen the burden of ongoing labor shortages in South Korea. That's fancy talk for robots taking over jobs humans do not want to do.

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Smaller Restaurants Grapple With the Burden of Delivery Service Fees

5 years ago

Independents and mid-sized chains are very reliant on delivery companies, as they are too small to launch delivery channels of their own, and a failure to offer the channel would result in large amounts of missed revenue and new customers.

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Yelp Is Becoming a Bigger Restaurant Reservation Threat to OpenTable

5 years ago

The biggest challenge for OpenTable competitors has been getting users to download an app or learn about their service. That's clearly not an issue for Yelp. But Yelp has other challenges, namely years of playing the antagonist to restaurants.

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Uber Eats Looking to Offload India Delivery Business

5 years ago

This isn't the only international market that Uber Eats is giving up on, and it's no coincidence that the retreat comes as Uber prepares to go public later this year.

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DoorDash Closes $400 Million Funding Round

5 years ago

The company is now valued at a head-spinning $7.1 billion, up from $1.4 billion less than a year ago.

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Chinese Ghost Kitchen Startup Secures $50 Million in Funding

5 years ago

Want a roadmap to how the virtual kitchen industry will shape up in the U.S. over the next few years? Look no further.

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Restaurant Chains Push Back Against New York’s Proposed Cashless Ban

5 years ago

The restaurant operators are urging local government to consider the operational efficiencies that going cashless provides, while local government urges operators to consider the larger implications of closing off their restaurants to customers who don't have easy access to bank accounts. At least at this point, it doesn't exactly sound like either side is listening to the other.

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Yelp Beats Earnings and Predicts Double-Digit Revenue Growth Through 2025

5 years ago

After much shareholder pressure to deliver, Yelp was ready for its moment in the sun after reporting earnings that easily topped Wall Street's estimates.

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DoorDash Is Negotiating a $500 Million Funding Round

5 years ago

When Postmates confidentially filed for an IPO last week, we knew it was only a matter of time before rival DoorDash would try to shout louder with bigger news. In this case, nothing's confirmed, but DoorDash is looking at closing a round of funding that could push the company passed a $6 billion valuation.

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Just Eat Urged to Seek Merger With a Rival

5 years ago

Activist investor Cat Rock is growing more impatient by the day with Just Eat's lack of a CEO appointment. Somewhere Yelp is reading this understanding the UK company's pain.