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Emerging Restaurant Delivery Services Take Hold In Small Cities
 

Not all food delivery platforms are national. There’s more than Uber Eats, Seamless and Grubhub, after all. In a small Ohio city, for example, Grubdom seeks to provide a food delivery platform where on-demand delivery services are still catching on, Grubdom Founder Jay White told PYMNTS in an interview. Here’s how the service works and how the founder hopes to contribute to a changing regional economy.

 
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How Delivery Services Started In Postwar America
 

While restaurants were used to serving customers in their own dining rooms for years, they couldn’t rely on customers dining in for lunch or dinner in postwar America: They had to reach customers who wanted to eat at home in front of their television sets. As a result, restaurants in postwar America started offering takeout and delivery options. Since then, food delivery has become digitized through services such as Grubhub and Uber Eats. Here’s how the industry has evolved with changing consumer behavior and where it may be headed in the future.  Read More...

 
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Blockchain Shines Spotlight On Carrefour Supply Chain
 

Consumers want to know where their food was grown, when, how and by whom — in short, they want to know they can trust it. Many grocers are turning to blockchain to provide transparency into this process, which not only satisfies the consumer appetite for info — it also helps the company address food safety concerns swiftly and with precision. French grocer Carrefour, which was already using blockchain to track the product journey of its storebrand chickens, is the latest to expand blockchain food traceability within its product offerings.  Read More...

 
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When Using Phones At The Dinner Table Gets A (Master)Pass
 

It’s always bad manners to check your phone at a restaurant, unless you’re checking it in order to pay the check. Bruno Degiovanni, VP of Digital Payments, Western Europe, at Mastercard, told PYMNTS that a new partnership with Eataly — and other dining establishments in Italy — is turning what was once a dining out faux paus into a better customer and restaurant experience.  Read More...

 
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