SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's What We Know That's Open in SF For Your Essential and Takeout Needs The more you spend into the local economy via takeout and delivery (as opposed to just shopping at Safeway and Whole Foods), the more chance there is that San Francisco will emerge recognizable from all this, and not with a city full of vacant businesses.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants Rant Over Ghost Kitchens and Delivery Apps to City Hall Officials Ghost kitchens are putting a scare in brick-and-mortar SF restaurants, who served the Small Business Commission notice that delivery apps are listing them without permission.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DoorDash, Postmates, and UberEats Have Reportedly All Discussed Mergers The parent company of Caviar, DoorDash Inc., has reportedly been in talks with both Postmates and Uber in the past year about mergers in various combinations between the three companies — pointing to the fact that the food delivery app industry may be feeling some growing pains.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Ghost Kitchen Complex In SoMa Is Making Food For Dozens of Delivery Brands Have you recently ordered food on a delivery app from "American Eclectic Burger," "Fork & Ladle," or "Red Corn Taqueria"? Because these are all ghost restaurants operating out of so-called "ghost kitchens" in SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kin Khao Delivery App Mix-Up Involved Ghost-Kitchen Restaurant That Serves Out of a Trailer in the Mission Last week's news about a bizarre situation that felt like a scam has an update, and it's not going to inspire trust in the world of food delivery apps.
SF News Postmates Gets First Permit To Test Delivery Robots On SF Streets Remember how the Board of Supervisors was talking about banning all sidewalk delivery robots two years ago? Well that didn't happen, and instead, like with the scooter debacle, the city has simply come up with permitting system.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DoorDash Acquires Caviar To Create SF-Based Delivery App Empire The delivery-app wars are seeing some consolidation as SF-based DoorDash announces the acquisition of rival Caviar for $410 million. That's a tidy return for Square, which was the last buyer of Caviar back in 2014, when the price was $90 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Survey Finds Delivery App Drivers Stealing Food, Refusing to Walk Up Stairs Ever gotten an order of fries that felt a little light? Or found a side dish missing from your DoorDash/UberEats/Caviar/Postmates order? More than 1 in 4 delivery app drivers admit they've stolen food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Pie Says Delivery Apps Don't Play Fair, Should Face Legal Consequences The depressing "shut-in economy" that's fueled a boom in app-based delivery services for everything from your laundry to bottles of booze has put a noticeable squeeze on SF's already squeezed restaurants.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delivery Startup Young Fava Halts Service To Seek Larger Kitchen Former Locanda chef Anthony Strong's upscale delivery-only concept Young Fava, which just debuted less than a month ago serving things like a "90s-Style Crudo" and a full caviar service with house-made potato chips,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Young Fava Debuts This Week Offering Weeknight Treats, High-End Delivery From Former Locanda Chef As SF enters the next phase of the food delivery app wars perhaps to be known as the post-Sprig era, RIP it may be important to mark the launch of Young Fava, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Launching Delivery-Only Rotisserie Chicken Tacolicious is expanding once again this month, only this time it's not with a new location but with a new delivery-only business through Caviar that they're calling MF Chicken. Beginning June 19, during
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sprig Shuts Down Its Once Popular Food Delivery App Another one bites the dust in the food delivery realm: Sprig announced Friday that their SF-based, warm meal delivery service is shutting down, capping off four years for one of the main players
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Delfina And Locanda Chef Anthony Strong Launches Delivery-Only Restaurant, Young Fava One local chef's answer to the growing difficulty and arguable unsustainability of the economics of running a restaurant: a chef-driven, delivery-only restaurant where dishes are made to order, just like in a restaurant.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat24 Is Now Delivering Via Robot In The Mission And Potrero Another service has officially entered the fray to make us put up with their delivery bots on our sidewalks, and that's Yelp's Eat24, which just launched robot deliveries in the Mission and Potrero
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delivery Robot Named Carry Spotted 'Learning The Sidewalks' Of The Mission Spotted on 19th Street: A delivery robot named "Carry" https://t.co/l8mXp2GqCH pic.twitter.com/EC1HGZUCuk— Mission Local (@MLNow) February 22, 2017 That R2D2-ish delivery robot on wheels that we first told
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tales Of Shooting Threats, Harassment, And Safety Hazards At Blue Apron's Richmond Warehouse With over 4,000 employees now and 8 million meals delivered each month, Blue Apron is by most accounts a runaway success story in the fledgling $5 billion meal-kit delivery industry. But a
SF News Autonomous Delivery Bot Hits San Francisco Sidewalks Starship just completed its first official and completely autonomous delivery to a wonderful lady in Richmond district of San Francisco A photo posted by Starship Technologies (@starshiprobots) on Sep 20, 2016 at 2:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sprig Relaunches Guest Chef Series With David Nayfeld Of Upcoming Che Fico Che Fico, the big new Italian restaurant coming to the Little Star block of Divisadero (834-838 Divis) that we recently got an update on, is still probably six months off, at least. But
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amazon Prime Now And FIVE Other New Food Delivery Startups Enter Crowded Local Market At this point, San Francisco needs another food delivery app about as much as we need another Super Bowl, but that isn't stopping a new gaggle of startups from entering the fray. As
SF News The On-Demand/Shut-In Economy Is Definitely Slowing Down, If Not Dying With the shuttering of SpoonRocket last week, the recent news that Instacart was slashing its fees and commissions to drivers, and the December closure of rideshare also-ran Sidecar, there's been plenty of talk
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SpoonRocket Shuts Down On Same Day That UberEats Launches Standalone App On-demand meal delivery service SpoonRocket announced today that it is shutting down, effective immediately. The Berkeley-based company, reports TechCrunch, was unable to secure additional funding and when a last-ditch effort at negotiating an
SF News Yep, Uber Is Getting In The Delivery Game, Big Time As predicted a year and a half ago, Uber has much bigger plans than being just "everyone's private driver." As Tech Crunch is reporting via some leaked training docs, Uber's in the process
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Food Delivery Services Are Taking A Bite Out of Restaurant Profits Services like Caviar, Postmates, and Eat 24 (now part of the Yelp empire) are increasingly becoming a vital part of fast-casual restaurants' revenue streams. But as the Chronicle discusses with several of them
SF News Macy's And Bloomingdale's To Offer Same-Day Delivery In S.F. In move that helps them go head-to-head with big-shot Amazon (and, potentially, Uber) in the same-day delivery space, Macy's and Bloomingdale's have just announced partnerships with Palo Alto-based Deliv. The startup delivery service
