"In most countries there are some smaller service providers but in almost all cases they do not provide restaurants with an actual management system that reflects the restaurants' inventories in real-time, and thus have significant shortcomings on the consumer side," he says.
The storm and its tidal surge ravaged stores and restaurants, soaked inventory and stalled manufacturing throughout the New York region last week.
These two shows are so similar they can effectively be counted as one: restaurant owners with inventory discrepancies invite TV detectives to fill their businesses with secret cameras and undercover waitresses, then retreat and watch as the employees lick food, harass customers and give passing Hells Angels the run of the bar while they do jelly shots out the back.
For now, all of the main players in London, which along with Deliveroo, Uber and possibly Amazon, includes Rocket Internet-backed Take Eat Easy, are competing on the basis of delivery times and customer service, how many new customers they can send restaurants, and, crucially, inventory i.e. actually signing up the restaurants and brands that consumers have an appetite for.
Eatigo was founded in Bangkok in 2013 and it is designed to help restaurants fill unused inventory by offering deals to customers at certain times of the day.
The system is designed to help a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant to achieve better inventory control, responsive replenishment, and food safety control, as well as to improve its quality of service.
"Everybody figures this is kind of a temporary thing, that when restaurants burn through their inventory they're going to have to start buying again, and distributors, too.
Like Paul Bocuse, one of the first modern celebrity chefs, whose renown Mr. Ducasse's now rivals, he is not daunted by running a big inventory of restaurants, despite a constant rumble of criticism from those who insist he has spread himself too thin.
With its focus on curation, Caviar limits its inventory to restaurants that have four stars or higher on Yelp.
The deal will allow international diners the ability to book reservations at nearly 7,000 more restaurants via the additional inventory.
