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In response to the challenges facing the restaurant industry, the technology company unveiled a free order aggregation service, streamlining orders from third-party platforms directly to restaurants’ point-of-sale systems.


Lunchbox Introduces Free Order Aggregation

Lunchbox is providing its clients with free Order Aggregation, which automatically routes third-party platforms like EzCater, DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub directly into the restaurant's POS system.

Lunchbox Offering Free Order Aggregation

Lunchbox CEO and former restaurant leader James Walker wants to help brands cut through the tech noise to help them scale.

James Walker Takes Helm at Lunchbox, Promises Clarity for Restaurant Operators

Shift4 has made a capital investment in Lunchbox, selecting the technology solution provider as the enterprise partner for its SkyTab POS solution. The news comes alongside Lunchbox's appointment of James Walker as its new CEO.

Lunchbox Selects James Walker as CEO and Announces New Funding Round Led by Shift4

Lunchbox, the leader in enterprise restaurant catering and off-premise technology, has announced the appointment of James Walker as CEO as the company enters a new era of growth with a clear roadmap to profitability and innovation.

Lunchbox Selects James Walker as CEO

Catering remains a high-growth segment for enterprise restaurant brands, with 2024 showcasing significant sales, technology and customer engagement advancements.

7 Trends Transforming Restaurant Catering Sales in 2025

A panel at the Fast Casual Executive Summit discussed the ins and outs of catering and tech.



How Catering Becomes Lucrative for Restaurants

LUNCHBOX LAUNCHES THIS YEAR'S TOP 30 WOMEN IN FOOD LIST

Lunchbox rolls out OPEN Payments for restaurants

Menu photos created using generative AI

Foodtech Startup Collabs Launches AI-powered Food Photo Generator

‘Lunchbox’ Replaces Photographers as the First AI Image Generator

Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux Invests in Major Tech Transformation

12 Tech Products That Should Be On Every Restaurateur’s Wishlist

The next generation of digital tech solutions is here

Lunchbox Launches the Largest Network of Integrations

Picnic announces more plans to automate kitchens

Lunchbox CEO and Co-Founder Nabeel Alamgir Recognized in Crain’s New York Business “20 In Their 20s” List

PAR Technology Welcomes Lunchbox Into Its Integration Ecosystem

Nabeel Alamgir, Co-Founder and CEO, Lunchbox

Lunchbox auctions off virtual restaurant

Lunchbox, Virturant partner for new Ghost Eats app

Bangladesh-born Nabeel is disrupting NYC’s food delivery industry

Forking over hefty delivery app fees has been a growing problem for many restaurants--especially during the pandemic. So some eateries are now getting some high-tech help in order to have more control and more profits.  

NYC RESTAURANTS CUTTING OUT THIRD-PARTY DELIVERY SERVICES

The delivery aggregator's new Direct Order Toolkit that allows restaurant partners to add either a direct link for use in email marketing and social media, a direct 'order now' button on their website or a QR code on printed materials.  

Grubhub’s latest online ordering tools won’t charge marketing fees

Lunchbox Fills Its Plate with a $20 Million Investment

Lunchbox CEO Nabeel Recognized in Crain’s “20 In Their 20s”

Point-of-sale provider ParTech has added functionality for Lunchbox, a fast-growing provider of restaurant delivery integration and marketing software, into its Brink POS platform.

PAR Technology Integrates Lunchbox into Brink POS

Food ordering startup Lunchbox just launched an anti-Grubhub delivery app

In recent years, New York City restaurants have complained about the fees that third-party ordering and delivery platforms, such as Grubhub and DoorDash, charge them. Those concerns have only escalated during the pandemic, when dining spots have become more dependent on meals to go for their financial survival.

Some NYC Restaurants Tire of Forking Over Delivery-App Fees

Lunchbox launches free online ordering system for independents

Review frow TC editor, Haje Jan Kamps, on Lunchbox's Series B pitch deck

Lunchbox's $50 million series B deck

Nabeel Alamgir attends the Food on Demand Conference in Vegas and announces the launch of Lunchbox Rails.

How Can Restaurants Win Repeat Customers?

Lunchbox announces the launch of Lunchbox Rails, the first advanced all-in-one integrations system for managing third-party online ordering built for operators. The company also unveiled the Lunchbox Scholarship Fund - a new program that provides financial support to workers in the restaurant industry who are interested in furthering their education.

Lunchbox launches order integration tool

Lunchbox announces the launch of Lunchbox Zine, a new print publication that's addressing the latest issues happening in the food and restaurant industry. It will be the first produced and printed publication from the Lunchbox Publishing House.

Launchbox Launches Sustainabiliy Zine

Nabeel Alamgir sits down for an interview with Kate Rogers to talk about the future of restaurants in the metaverse.

Meals in the metaverse a new frontier for restaurants?

Lunchbox announced that each of its products have been selected as a digital partner by Papa Gino’s.

Papa Gino's, D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches hires execs to upgrade customer experience

Lunchbox, a collection of modern and creative online ordering solutions for enterprise restaurant chains and ghost kitchens, today announced the closing of a $50 million Series B funding round led by Coatue with participation from existing investors Primary and 645 Ventures as well as executives from DoorDash, Sweetgreen, and &pizza.

Coatue leads another infusion into Lunchbox

Lunchbox Gets Another $50M as Restaurants Continue to Go Digital

Lunchbox raises $50M with contributions from Sweetgreen, DoorDash execs

Lunchbox's Director of People Ops, Eric Doran, was featured in the BBC  talking about the company's comp structure and why location-based pay can work. 

The tussle over location-based pay

Lunchbox CEO and co-founder, Nabeel Alamgir, sits down with NRN to talk about the future of restaurants. He was also featured on NRN's 2022 Power List. 

Lunchbox CEO to take restaurant branding out of the digital dark ages

For the first time, QSR searched the digital ranks to find 12 leaders disrupting the restaurant landscape. Lunchbox CEO, Nabeel Alamgir was featured alongside a series of other founders and CEOs. 

Meet the Restaurant Industry's 12 Digital Disruptors

Lunchbox co-founders, Andrew Boryk and Hadi Rashid, were named Forbes 30 Under 30 for the Enterprise Tech category.

Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists 2022

Lunchbox unveiled an updated logo, visual identity and website. 

Lunchbox launches website as part of rebranding

Sparkfly, an offer management solutions company, and Lunchbox, are teaming up to offer customers personalized offers, rewards, communications, and digital mobile and online ordering capabilities.

Sparkfly, Lunchbox team up to offer personalized offers

Restaurants are looking for alternatives to DoorDash, UberEats and their hefty fees, which can be up to 30% per order. These startups charge restaurants substantially smaller fees for delivery and share consumer data — information that the bigger players share infrequently.

Restaurants are at war with Uber Eats, Grubhub, and DoorDash over profit-hurting fees. These 7 food-tech startups have raised millions to help restaurateurs win.

Lunchbox is buying small online restaurant marketplace Spread as it looks to build a more restaurant-friendly version of giant aggregators like DoorDash and Grubhub.

Lunchbox buys online restaurant marketplace Spread

Lunchbox acquired Spread, a commission-free delivery and takeout service that positions itself as a more restaurant-friendly alternative to large-scale delivery platforms.

Lunchbox Acquires Spread, Commission-Free Delivery Platform

By 2022, Alamgir hopes to bring Lunchbox’s fee-free marketplace global. The company plans to launch in a few international markets by the end of this year. 

Lunchbox Acquires Online Restaurant Marketplace Spread

C3’s newest culinary community now comes with an app focused on generating first-party orders. The operator of more than 200 ghost kitchens and brick-and-mortar restaurants partnered with Lunchbox to create the Citizens Go mobile app, allowing customers to order food for pickup directly from their ghost kitchen, bypassing third-party marketplaces.

C3 Partners with Lunchbox on Citizens Go App

Ask almost any operator and they’ll agree that the restaurant industry was headed toward a digital, off-premise-focused business before 2020 and that COVID-19 just accelerated that process. 

FROM THE DRIVE-THRU TO THE KITCHEN, TECHNOLOGY WILL CONTINUE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

Nabeel Alamgir worked his way up from bussing tables at Bareburger, his first job after arriving in the U.S. from Bangladesh as a teen, to being the company’s CMO. His years at Bareburger gave him the inspiration for Lunchbox, his tech startup.

MILLENIAL CHANGE MAKERS

Building a culture of teamwork, trust, and empowerment creates a better environment for everyone involved internally and externally. It’s important to support one another and push team members to do great things because you genuinely believe in their potential.

Nabeel Alamgir of Lunchbox: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became a C-Suite Executive

If there's one thing that makes Nabeel Alamgir fume, it's watching eateries pay exorbitant fees to tech companies. In an industry known for razor-thin margins even in ideal circumstances, third-party platforms like GrubHub and Uber Eats can charge commissions of 15 to 30 percent per transaction.

How This Founder Is Helping Restaurants Reclaim Their Power

Clean Juice, a USDA-certified organic juice bar franchise released its 2020 fourth quarter financial report indicating that the franchise's key performance indicators have exceeded expectations, despite a global pandemic and the company's typical seasonality impact. 

Clean Juice thrives in sales, growth and guest experience

Ghost kitchens have entered a new phase. After a strong year that saw the multibrand, delivery-only facilities become part of the restaurant mainstream, companies that operate them are beginning to pursue opportunities for the format outside of their own four walls.

Ghost kitchens see fresh opportunities in malls, hotels

Lunchbox is a tech disruptor out to beat delivery companies like GrubHub by offering restaurant alternatives for food delivery and carryout.

FOOD TECH STARTUP LUNCHBOX, BACKED BY $20 MILLION IN VC FUNDING, HAS LAUNCHES TWO ANTI - GRUBHUB ORDERING SITE

Last week, a company called Lunchbox unveiled a new website: notgrubhub.org. A rep for the company described the site over email as “a non-profit site helping Americans order from and directly support over 100,000 establishments across the country.” 

What is the anti-Grubhub?

Former NYC restaurant operators have launched a website to drive guests to restaurants only offering first-party ordering.

Former Bareburger CMO launches NotGrubhub

As the outspoken CEO of a tech company trying to break restaurant dependency on third-party delivery services, Nabeel Alamgir of Lunchbox is more of a happy warrior than an angry naysayer. Even in saying “the bad guys are winning” when talking about the largest delivery providers, his message of restaurant independence feels like equal parts pep talk and rallying cry.

Lunchbox Founder Focuses on Breaking Third-Party Dependence

If you want an idea of what the restaurant industry could look like in a post-pandemic environment, look at where the money is going.

WHAT RECENT FUNDING ROUND TO COMPANIES LIKE LUNCHBOX TELL US ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY

With many restaurants forced to rely entirely on the delivery and takeout business during the pandemic, there’s been a lot of discussion about whether the industry can survive while paying hefty fees to delivery platforms like Uber Eats and Grubhub.

Lunchbox raises $20M to help restaurants build their own ordering experiences

Online ordering company Lunchbox has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, the company said Wednesday.

Backed by prominent restaurateurs, Lunchbox raises $20M

Alamgir's current target means taking down companies with millions of users and even more funding: third-party restaurant delivery apps like GrubHub and UberEats.

This under-the-radar startup wants to help restaurants take on Uber Eats and Grubhub

Nabeel Alamgir, CEO and founder of Lunchbox, struggled to raise his first institutional check for his restaurant tech startup. After searching for more than a year, Alamgir found an investor who understood his vision. Better yet, the investor had connections to restaurants in New York City that Alamgir wanted to land. 

In a post-NDA world, does transparency help founders identify conflicts of interest?

Clean Juice, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based organic juice bar franchise, has launched a branded mobile app under a partnership with Lunchbox, an omnichannel platform for New York-based restaurants.

Clean Juice launches mobile app with Lunchbox

Lunchbox co-founder and CEO Nabeel Alamgir: Lunchbox enables restaurants of all sizes to deliver the best digital ordering experiences to their customers by simplifying the solution. By creating powerful omnichannel systems, restaurants are able to take back their digital real estate.

Undaunted By Pandemic, Clean Juice Selects Lunchbox For App Upgrade

June Company to Watch: Lunchbox

The food delivery market is quickly changing, and restaurateurs nationwide are left wondering how this evolution will affect their industry.

How the Uber and Postmates Merger Impacts the Industry

Out of adversity, comes invention and opportunity. In these challenging times, it’s more important to be able to pivot, transition, and adapt than ever before.  With movement restricted and social distancing measures becoming the new normal for restaurants, we have seen an acceleration in the move to digital technology for food businesses. 

10 Emerging Food Tech Platforms Set to Power the Future of Food

Lunchbox is looking to shift this dynamic with a flat-fee model for restaurants—as opposed to charging per transaction or taking a percentage of each transaction. 

Pandemic Ups The Ante For Digital Restaurant Orders, Delivery

The 38-unit better-burger chain just passed 51% ownership of digital orders, giving them more control over data and customer experience

How Bareburger took back a majority share of their digital orders from third-party companies

As COVID-19 spread, restaurateurs are looking for ways to continue operating, without compromising the health of their employees or consumers.

7 Ways Restaurants Can Deliver Food Amid Coronavirus Fears

A new website called Help Main Street is offering a simple way for people to pitch in by searching or browsing through local business listings, then purchasing gift cards (or making Square payments).

Lunchbox and Eniac launch a website for supporting local businesses

Lunchbox, a relatively new entrant to the restaurant-tech scene, just announced a $2 million seed round for its software that simplifies restaurants’ task of managing orders from multiple sales channels.

Lunchbox Raises $2M to Simplify Omnichannel Ordering for Smaller Restaurants

Lunchbox, an online ordering company for restaurants, and Virtual Dining Concepts, a collection of delivery-only restaurant concepts, is revving up the engines of a virtual restaurant brand: NASCAR Refuel.

NASCAR's delivery-only restaurant revving up

Lunchbox, LoCo Co-ops, FoodBoss, Owner.com, and Coco are part of a growing list of startups giving restaurants a break on costly delivery fees.

Restaurants are at War with UberEats, Grubhub, and DoorDash

Paris Baguette Partners with Lunchbox to Modernize Catering Across All 180+ Locations

Lunchbox and FastCasual Announce Inaugural Top 30 Movers & Shakers in Catering Industry List

BRIX Selects Lunchbox As A Key Technology Partner For Its Growing Portfolio Of Restaurant Brands

Biscuitville to Launch Online Ordering for the First Time with Lunchbox and CBS NorthStar

Lunchbox Recruits Top ItsaCheckmate Technology Executives as it Wins Upmarket

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Lunchbox Launches OPEN Payments

LUNCHBOX UNVEILS 2.0

Lunchbox Raises $50M Series B Funding

Stefan Hertzberg sits down with Restaurant Business for a chat on the growth opportunity for QSR within catering. 

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