Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. It’s a matter of some confusion and debate about who first came up with the concept. Most people credit the idea to Late Night writer Randy Cohen, who...
Consumers have been increasingly trading long waits in line for fast food by placing orders through mobile apps for a while now, but the trend is not limited to quick service restaurants (QSRs). Mobile order-ahead technology is gaining traction in all sorts of restaurant verticals,...
LevelUp has announced a new partnership. Going forward, the restaurant mobile payments and loyalty firm will tie in with Smarter Takeout, an online and mobile ordering specialist. The partnership ties LevelUp restaurant partners to additional options for takeout, delivery and catering. And that benefit is...
Grubhub made news a couple weeks ago when it simultaneously delivered a very strong Q2 2018 earnings report and announced the acquisition of LevelUp. The focus then and the subsequent coverage since has been on the positive impact of the LevelUp acquisition on Grubhub’s ability...
October 25, 2018
Grubhub — fueled by a 67 percent year-over-year increase in active diners in the third quarter, as well as its recent partnership and acquisition deals — said it will boost its marketing and delivery spend this year. The plans comes as the online food delivery service positions itself as what can arguably be called an Amazon for […]
June 05, 2017
Quick service restaurants are nothing new — they’ve been around since the 1940s in some fashion. But what is new is how companies from Starbucks to Five Guys to McDonald’s have...
May 30, 2017
Restaurants who want to deliver a great — not just good — mobile order-ahead experience may want to give it one big KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid, that is.) In...
April 28, 2017
For nearly a century, restaurateurs have looked to speed to gain an edge over the competition. Since Harry and Esther Snyder, the founders of In-N-Out Burger, debuted order-ahead services in...
August 10, 2018
LevelUp has announced a new partnership. Going forward, the restaurant mobile payments and loyalty firm will tie in with Smarter Takeout, an online and mobile ordering specialist. The partnership ties LevelUp restaurant partners to additional options for takeout, delivery and catering. And that benefit is reciprocal — Smarter Takeout restaurant’s partners can now tap into […]
July 25, 2018
Turns out the online and mobile food ordering business has some hefty tailwinds in place. Grubhub’s active diner count jumped 69 percent year over year to 15.6 million users, up...
June 14, 2017
One of the perhaps more surprising industries that’s seen a transformation in the digital age within the past few years are restaurants. As a direct result of instant access to...
September 24, 2014
E-Commerce platform WooCommerce has added LevelUp as a mobile payment option to cut merchants’ payment processing costs, the companies said in a news release. WooCommerce merchants who use the LevelUp integration...
