MIX technology coordinates orders from multiple concepts for off- or on-premise consumption
Ghost kitchen operator Kitchen United last week announced a partnership with a Northern California shopping mall to help restaurant tenants reach off-premise customers via delivery.
At Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara, Calif., Kitchen United has also installed a system of pickup lockers throughout the mall the largest retail destination in Northern California that allows the restaurants to deliver food closer to the approximately 8,500 mall workers scattered throughout the space.
Key to the implementation of the partnership is the deployment of Kitchen United’s MIX technology, which will allow customers to combine menu items from multiple restaurants into a single order. The technology has undergone considerable testing at Kitchen United’s other locations, said Atul Sood, chief business officer at Pasadena, Calif.-based Kitchen United.
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Pots & Co, the London-based food company best known for its range of hand-crafted potted puddings, available in UK supermarkets including Waitrose and Sainsbury’s, has today announced that 301 INC, the venture capital arm of General Mills INC, is leading a multistage investment of up to £15m ($20m) into the business as part of a growth strategy to expand its product range and distribution in the US.
General Mills INC is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer foods sold through retail stores. Its largest brands include Haagen Dazs, Old El Paso and Nature Valley. Its 301 INC investment arm seeks emerging food brands with compelling products for direct investment, leveraging the skill and capability of General Mills.
FilmLA says permit requests dropped 25 percent last month.
Production in Los Angeles hit new pandemic-era lows last month.
FilmLA released its latest report examining filming in the greater Los Angeles area in the month of December, revealing that film permit requests dropped a steep 25 percent compared to the prior month. Filming activity had already dropped nearly 8 percent in November but the organization says that permit requests declined from 813 that month to 613 in December. As another comparison, there were 965 permits in Dec. of last year.
The production decline started early in the month and deepened throughout it, according to the report. The week before Christmas, FilmLA issued 143 permits, then 58 the week of the holiday (Dec. 14 to Dec. 20), and 50 the week of New Year’s (Dec. 28 to Jan. 3). With just 21 working days in December, the organization doled out an average of just 29 film permits per day the lowest daily output it has recorded since last August.
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