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Chinese food delivery has a long history in the U.S. There are more than 30,000 Chinese restaurants in America, a number that exploded around Nixon’s trip to China in the ’70s, but which has started ...

Third-party restaurant delivery is a major consumer innovation that links ordering through marketplaces to fulfillment by gig drivers managed by marketplace algorithms. It began in fits and starts — ...

Collin Wallace wanted a snack. Specifically, he wanted one delivered to his classroom during lecture (he had long lectures). This was 2006, when delivery was mostly limited to a few types of food, and ...