What’s worse than having your phone die at dinner? Literally nothing. How will you Instagram your meal? How will you call an Uber home? What if there’s an emergency and the babysitter can’t call? The whole night is ruined. OK, maybe it’s not that dramatic,...
Press button. Receive pizza. It’s basically that easy, now that Papa John’s has become the first national pizza brand to offer instant ordering via Facebook’s new “Start Order” button. Users don’t even have to open the brand’s national page — just type “Papa John’s” in the...
Papa John’s is giving Facebook users one more reason to never leave the app: now, customers can order Papa John’s pizza, desserts and sides using the social media giant’s new “Start Order” button. “The only thing that could make the video of your friend’s new...
Albertsons still wants to go public, two years after first mulling and tabling an initial public offering, Bloomberg reports. Yet once again, the grocer is going to have to put that dream on hold as it struggles to get its same-store sales back into the...
Nobody likes getting cold food delivered to their restaurant table. Wait staff do the best they can, but it’s not always easy to find the customer who ordered a meal; servers can lose a lot of time (and a hot dinner can lose a lot...
Shake Shack’s mobile order-ahead option isn’t just for iPhone users anymore. The burger chain announced Monday that it has teamed up with Olo, a digital ordering provider, and mobile product agency Fuzz to roll out an Android app in the wake of its iOS app’s success. Shake...
Baskin-Robbins, the quick-serve ice cream retailer, has started ice cream delivery in certain cities around the country. According to a news report, in 22 cities last week Baskin-Robbins rolled out the retail service, in which customers can place orders online for ice cream and have...
Picture this: a customer walks into a café. The barista recognizes her face and asks if she’d like the usual. No need to go through the “double venti wet cappuccino with soy and four pumps of pumpkin spice” rigmarole; the barista knows the order by...
There’s a lot more to running a restaurant than making good food and serving it with a smile — and no, we don’t mean listing the menu on GrubHub, UberEats or OpenTable. Restaurants have to follow regulations set by the food and health administrations, such as...
