Insights
KU regularly publishes industry insights from our team of restaurant and tech veterans to help our partners and future partners thrive. Take a look!
March 31, 2020 Insights
Takeout and Delivery Best Practices: Getting Started and Set Up
How to set up and start your delivery and takeout business on the right foot…and fast. There’s no sugarcoating the fact that the COVID-19 crisis seems custom made to slam the brakes on the restaurant and hospitality industries. A vast majority of restaurants are set up for dine-in to drive revenue and a small side […]
March 18, 2019 Insights
Insights Newsletter – March 2019
In the KU Insights newsletter we break down industry trends and give an insider view of what’s happening in the world of KU. Here’s a look at the takeaways shared in our March 2019 Insights Newsletter featuring commentary by the KU leadership. — 1. WSJ warns of marketplaces taking over consumers’ brand loyalty. Read the […]
March 18, 2019 Insights
How Are Innovations in the Delivery Vehicle Going to Change Food Delivery?
By Kitchen United Executive Vice President of Information Technology, Jessi Moss and Vice President of Operations, Carl Orsbourn. — Over the last couple years, we’ve seen a flood of investment into the development of new last-mile delivery vehicles. Zume Pizza received a $375M investment from Softbank for its revolutionary pizza-warming truck (soon after, Pizza Hut […]
March 12, 2019 Insights
Food Delivery for All Generations
By Kitchen United COO Meredith Sandland with VP of Consumer Marketing Mike Mirkil — You can tell a lot about a person by their reaction to the idea of restaurant food delivery. Those in their 20’s and 30’s (Millennials) say “Oh, yeah, I use that all the time.” Those 45-65 have usually heard of it, […]
March 12, 2019 Insights
The Difference Between the Virtual Restaurant Waves of ’16 and ’18
By Kitchen United CEO Jim Collins — Reviewing the history of restaurants without dining rooms, sometimes called ghost or virtual kitchens, shouldn’t take too long… After all, we’re talking about an industry that for all intents and purposes is only 3 years old. What’s interesting is that we’ve already seen the birth, death, and rebirth […]
December 27, 2018 Insights
Urbennials Are Changing Cities (And Delivery)
As Millennials drive more US cities to adolescence, what happens to the delivery ecosystem? Leaving college sucks. For the lucky ones who get to go to a four-year residential college, it is such a bubble of like-minded friendship, aligned goals, shared stage-of-life challenges and community. Especially community. Everyone you want to see lives a five […]
