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Dan Byam Shaw will run the London Marathon dressed as one of The Felix Project's bright green food delivery vans, honoring his late brother while attempting a Guinness World Record. The charity, founded after 14-year-old Felix died of meningitis in 2016, has delivered 44 million meals across London.
Self-driving robots have arrived in Barnsley, bringing restaurant meals right to residents' doorsteps in minutes. The friendly orange bots are already serving thousands across four neighborhoods.
Your next food delivery might arrive on a self-driving bike. DoorDash just invested in Also, a Rivian spinoff making autonomous electric vehicles designed to navigate bike lanes and sidewalks.
South Korea's largest food delivery app has prevented over 10 billion disposable utensils from ending up in landfills while helping restaurants save money. Now Baemin is expanding its reusable container program across the country.
A three-month pilot program launched in Green Brook, New Jersey, bringing food orders to doorsteps by drone instead of car. Residents within 2.5 miles can now get meals faster without paying extra fees.
For over 120 years, Mumbai's dabbawalas have delivered home-cooked lunches across one of the world's busiest cities with near-perfect accuracy. What started with one banker's simple request now moves 200,000 meal boxes daily through a system Harvard ranked as reliable as the world's best companies.
Chowdeck just gave 20,000 delivery riders something rare in Nigeria's gig economy: automatic accident insurance at no extra cost. In a country where one crash can wipe out months of earnings, this could change how platforms treat their workers.
China just made ordering food delivery safer by requiring ghost kitchens to clearly identify themselves online. The new rules close loopholes that made it hard to track food safety at takeout-only restaurants.
Zambians can now pay for rides and food delivery without cash after Yango partnered with Flutterwave to bring seamless digital payments to everyday services. The move supports a country where mobile money transactions hit $5.3 billion in March alone.
A consumer lawsuit in Nigeria is challenging hidden pricing on food delivery apps, potentially forcing the entire industry to show transparent costs. The case could reshape how millions of people understand what they're really paying for when ordering meals online.
Akash Saroj works grueling hours as a Swiggy delivery agent in Delhi, yet he sets aside part of his modest earnings to feed animals, repair broken rickshaws, and distribute blankets to people sleeping on streets. Despite losing his father last year and facing crushing debt, this 24-year-old refuses collaboration money from betting apps because he won't mislead people for profit. ##
A son's tribute to his mother has become a thriving food delivery platform connecting nearly 1,000 home cooks across India with people craving authentic, home-cooked meals. Bhookle has delivered over 50,000 meals in Bengaluru alone, turning kitchens into businesses.