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NewsMcdonald’s to install electric car charging points across drive-thru estate
McDonald’s is to install car charging points in hundreds of its restaurants across the UK. In a partnership with electric vehicle charging network InstaVolt, the fast food giant plans to install ports in the majority of its 924 drive-thru sites, allowing customers to charge their cars up to 80% in under 20 minutes.
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Amazon investment in Deliveroo 'should not have a negative impact on customers'
Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo should be provisionally cleared, because it is not expected to damage competition in either restaurant delivery or online convenience grocery delivery, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found.
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Creams intros QR codes for menus, order and pay
Dessert parlour brand Creams is introducing QR codes at its cafés as part of safeguarding and social distancing measures for dine-in customers.
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Just Eat Takeaway.com snaps up Grubhub for £5.75bn
Just Eat Takeaway.com has further consolidated its position in the global delivery market by buying US company Grubhub for $7.3bn (£5.75bn).
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Loungers CEO Nick Collins: ‘Delivery isn’t something our customers would enjoy’
Despite the raft of operators choosing to introduce delivery as an alternative revenue stream through recovery, it’s not a route Loungers is going to take, CEO Nick Collins has told MCA.
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Uber Eats UK GM Toussaint Wattinne: Double digit growth during lockdown
Operators are seeing double digit growth in delivery after volumes recovered, Uber Eats UK GM Toussaint Wattinne has told MCA’s The Conversation. Wattinne said after an initial fall-off when lockdown came into force, volumes quickly ramped back up, with strong growth for those that remained open. He told ...
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Jane O’Riordan: Delivery is a learning opportunity, not an economic endeavour
The growing number of operators choosing to re-launch or trial delivery in the past few weeks have not done so to make money, but to understand how they might operate in a post-lockdown ‘new normal,’ Jane O’Riodan, chairman of Red Engine, Turtle Bay and Caravan has said.
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Vita Mojo: Helping Leon, Farmer J and Bone Daddies build a post-covid world
The shutdown of restaurants has ushered in five years of digital innovation in the industry within just a few months, Vita Mojo CEO Nick Popovici has told MCA.
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Barclaycard extends contactless limit to £45
Barclaycard is extending its contactless limit to £45 from 1 April 2020 as the UK enters lockdown.
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Deliveroo partners with M&S for food delivery
Deliveroo has announced a new partnership with BP and Marks & Spencer Food as UK lockdown commences.
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Harri launches free recruitment portal
As operators were forced to close their sites following Friday’s Government instruction, hospitality solutions companies Harri Hospitality and Access Hospitality have launched new services to help the industry adapt to the restrictions.
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Deliveroo introduces no-contact drop-offs
Deliveroo has introduced a no-contact drop-off service amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Getting social - the risks and rewards
As Chancellor Rishi Sunak grinned next to an unnecessarily large bag of Yorkshire Tea and Jacob Rees-Mogg threw caution to the wind in clutching a single walkers crisp, social media managers everywhere groaned in solidarity. “Look how relatable we are,” called the two men, “so normal!” Within minutes, Twitter warriors throughout the country were primed for battle. Yorkshire Tea, Walkers and Pringles (which committed the crime of simply sitting, unopened, on Reese-Mogg’s desk), were immediately inundated with online abuse.
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Restaurant control the crux of Deliveroo Pickup
Deliveroo Pickup is ‘step six’ in the operator’s long-term restaurant proposition, Rohan Pradhan, Deliveroo chief sales officer told delegates at MCA’s Food To Go conference last week.
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BigDish to roll out with Tasty
BigDish, the food technology company that operates a yield management platform for restaurants, has added 242 new restaurants in January.
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Choose brand before tech - M&B
Operators should choose technology solutions that compliment their brand’s DNA, rather than adopting tech because “it’s the right thing to do”, Mitchells and Butlers’ head of digital transformation told MCA’s Hostech conference.
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Kitopi raises $60m in new funding
Kitopi, the smart kitchen operator, has raised $60m in new funding led by Lumia Capital.
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Côte proposes industry-wide order-and-pay solution
Côte CFO Strahan Wilson proposed an industry-wide open-access solution to the problems faced by in-restaurant payment and ordering apps at MCA’s HOSTECH event this week.
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CMA probe into Amazon’s Deliveroo investment ‘robustly dismissed’
A Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) probe into Amazon’s proposed investment in Deliveroo is “speculative and not supported by evidence”, the two companies have warned regulators.
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Just Eat to become second partner to McDonald’s
Just Eat has agreed to become a nationwide with McDonald’s in the UK and Ireland.
