“The Chicago spreadsheet itself is a growing mess of more than 100 restaurants with tallying fees between 2.5 percent and 25 percent.” ~ learn more
“I decided today that I’m going to see if I can find the restaurant with the highest number of brothers.” This thread starts at “2 Bros Pizza” but does not end there. Internet collaboration at its finest. ~ learn more
“We’re transcribing our historical restaurant menus, dish by dish, so that they can be searched by what people were eating back in the day.” | learn more
“A quest to find the origin of a pizza place led me down a rabbit hole of clickbait restaurants—with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick’s new company at the end.” | learn more
Delivery-only restaurants, also called ghost kitchens, haven’t won me over as a consumer. The lack of a brick & mortar affiliation is certainly part of the problem. Affiliating a ghost kitchen with a brick & mortar brand I already trust […]
“I re-sell microwave meals…On some meals I add something to make them look better, like cheese. So far it’s at around £200 a day in revenue.” | learn more
Restaurant delivery service Eat24, now owned by GrubHub, was once a scrappy independent upstart. Back then, they had to figure out how to stretch their ad budget to the max. They found the answer on a porn site and turned […]
“It also appears to publish shadow pages without owners’ consent—sometimes in direct competition with real websites.” The tone of this article implies GrubHub’s motive is sinister. I don’t share the author’s views. However, the topic is interesting and therefore worth […]
“Amazon is closing its U.S. restaurant delivery service, a 4-year-old business that failed to take off amid fierce competition.” | learn more
“Today, Haus Hiltl isn’t just one Zürich’s most popular dining options; it’s recognised by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest continuously run vegetarian restaurant – a gourmet temple of ‘healthy indulgence’, founded in 1898 and operated by the fourth […]