Reimagining How Restaurants Deliver Food
Built on decades of success in food and tech.
Empower Delivery was born out of ClusterTruck, the busiest and most profitable delivery kitchen in the world. In 2016, serial tech entrepreneurs Dan McFadden and Chris Baggot believed they could offer a better delivery experience by reimagining delivery with a driver-first approach. While Baggott was already operating two successful restaurants, the pair recognized the need for a delivery-only kitchen to test their software concept.
At the time, delivery kitchens didn’t exist, so they made one: ClusterTruck. It started with a simple idea: “The enemy of good food is time.” They believed by improving driver efficiency using software, customers would receive fresher food, faster. They were right.
Six years and 3.5 million orders later, the concept was ready for restaurants everywhere. In 2022, restaurant veteran Meredith Sandland joined the team as CEO of Empower Delivery with the mission of helping restaurants create a better delivery experience.
The Empower Delivery software allows restaurants to offer superior delivery without compromising on food quality, profitability, or the customer experience. We’ve seen the magic of this approach, and are committed to creating a future where high-quality food is accessible to all by making delivery simpler and more affordable for restaurants and consumers.
Empower Delivery Leadership
Meredith Sandland
CEO
Meredith is the CEO of Empower Delivery, a software company that enables delivery-centric restaurants to own their off-premise destiny through native first-party ordering, resource-aware meal production, and delivery fleet orchestration.
Meredith is the co-author of the best-selling Delivering the Digital Restaurant: Your Roadmap to the Future of Food” and “Delivering the Digital Restaurant: The Path to Digital Maturity.” Meredith has been recognized as a restaurant industry leader by Nations Restaurant News and Business Insider for pushing the boundaries of restaurant technology and illuminating the path for others to follow. She also co-hosts “The Digital Restaurant” podcast.
Meredith is an experienced restaurant industry leader, previously serving as the Chief Development Officer for Taco Bell, a Yum! Brands restaurant chain.
Dan McFadden
CTO
Dan is the CTO & Cofounder of Empower Delivery. He leads the Empower Delivery engineering team who are responsible for innovating a next-gen digitally native restaurant platform.
Prior to Empower, Dan served as the CTO of ClusterTruck. ClusterTruck is a vertically integrated delivery-only kitchen. At ClusterTruck, Dan and his team built all the software needed to power ClusterTruck and run it successfully. The learnings and ideas from ClusterTruck are what lead to the creation of Empower Delivery.
Outside of work Dan enjoys riding bikes, eating good food and spending time with his wife and two children.
