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Tech Check: Marc Lore's food startup is combining restaurants, meal kits and delivery into a single "mealtime platform." Can it be greater than the sum of its parts?

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How an old-school ghost kitchen provider makes it work

Tech Check: Maker Kitchens was born long before the ghost kitchen boom and is one of the few left standing after. Its secret? It wasn't a ghost kitchen to begin with.

After absorbing the client list of Austin-based Colorfull, the Picnic delivery service has entered Austin and Houston and now operates in major cities from coast to coast.

The fast-casual salad bowl brand accused the ghost kitchen company's Picnic delivery service of selling its food without permission, misleading customers on pricing and delivering a subpar product.

In a lawsuit, the salesperson said she faced discrimination, harassment and retaliation at the ghost kitchen company run by Travis Kalanick.

Tech Check: The year has been defined by head-turning moves from unlikely players, including Grubhub, C3 and American Express.

Picnic delivers food from more than 100 restaurants to select offices and apartment buildings with no fee or tip.

The 12-unit multi-brand restaurant chain plans to expand into Southern California with its enlightened take on the ghost kitchen model.

Reality Check: Old-guard chains are finding the alternative operations to be persistently effective side hustles.

The shared-kitchen startup has limited its focus to providing kitchen space for a variety of food businesses, leaving the technology to others. The simplified approach has yielded profits and growth.

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