RESTAURANT INDUSTRY NEWS
Delivery Drones for Restaurants – UAVs to revolutionize Take Out Deliveries?
The logistics of delivery food to customers in their home have always represented a significant problem for Restaurant owners. The costs are high and variable workloads makes it difficult to pre-plan staffing levels. One solution to getting food into the homes of...
Zomato Australia launches Restaurant Online Ordering
Hospitality Magazine is reporting that this week Zomato Australia launched their online ordering app. What does it mean for your Restaurant? The article claims that Zomato has launched in Melbourne with 400 Restaurants using the services, which they are expecting to...
Groupon sacking 1,100 staff and shuts down in 7 countries – Victory for Restaurants?
Techcrunch has an article about Groupon closing down in 7 countries, sacking 1,100 people and taking a pre tax charge of $35 million. It is pulling out of Morocco, Panama, The Philippines, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Thailand and Uruguay. It also recently pulled out of...
Did the Dimmi Business model ever stand a chance in Australia
BRW has an interesting article with the history of Dimmi and online bookings in Australia. It is entitled Dimmi vs Goliaths - how the restaurant booking app held out for the best offer. The article raises a number of questions. Live Bookings...
OpenTable buys AS Digital / Respak for undisclosed sum
The WSJ is reporting that table management software and BookaRestaurant.com company, AS Digital has been purchased by Pricline Group owned OpenTable. Open Table, which employed CEO Lisa Hasen in January this year, has yet to start operation in Australia which is...
Is there a future for the Restaurant Aggregators – Zomato, Just Eat and Food Panda?
The Restaurant Aggregators are the companies which collect up the details of Restaurants and provide an online service for them, be it Online Bookings, like Dimmi / Tripadvisor, or online ordering like Zomato Order, Just Eat, Fod Panda, Eat 24 and Grub Hub. Gopal...