The Digital Restaurant
By Carl Orsbourn
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The latest on technology affecting the restaurant industry - for better and for worse.
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Beware, Be Kind of Viral Influencers
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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AEO is the new SEO: How AI is rewriting the digital playbook
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Who sells $1 Billion of Ads to Restaurants?
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Rethinking the Restaurant Tech Stack
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Will Autolane be the future for pickup?
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May 26, 2025 |
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Who wins the Super App Race? - with Guest Host Alayna Sullivan
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May 12, 2025 |
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From Smart Kitchens to Smart Menus with Guest Host Jason Berkowtiz
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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How will Tariffs affect Restaurants? - with Guest Host Deborah Matteliano from AWS
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Is Bolt Coming for Uber in America? - with Guest Host Yaro Tsyhanenko
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Are Restaurants Getting Tired of Tech? - with Guest Host Bernadette Heier
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Just Eat, Just Sold - The Global Marketplace Consolidation Continues
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Why does Yum want to own the tech stack - with guest host Cijoy Olickal
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Our 100th episode, one host down but Chain of Thought Reasoning top of mind
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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The 2025 Prediction Show
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Tony Delivers takes on the marketplaces
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Data, Data Everywhere...Are Restaurants Finally Ready to Use It?
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Are Restaurants Ready to Lead with AI?
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Why Wonder Brought Grubhub
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Doordash hits profitability while TGI's hits Ch. 11
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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What Can Restaurants Learn from Retail?
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Is Delivery A Luxury? Or A Public Service?
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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How To Do Delivery Better - According To Your Customers
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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What Can Restaurants Learn from Travel Loyalty?
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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What will Brian Niccol take from Chipotle to Starbucks?
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Will restaurant traffic ever grow again?
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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What can restaurants learn from the Crowdstrike crisis?
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Will dashboard dining take off?
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Will Local Kitchens succeed where others have failed?
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Can music makeup the shortfall in restaurant sales in 2024?
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Is restaurant delivery dying? It's for sure matured into the late stage partnerships world.
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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How will junk fee legislation affect food delivery?
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May 20, 2024 |
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Unlocking the Deficiencies of Delivery with Travis Kalanick at the Food on Demand conference
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May 13, 2024 |
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What can we learn from the struggles at Starbucks?
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May 06, 2024 |
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Why do guests prefer ordering direct for pickup?
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Alternative Strategies to Growing your Digital Sales w/ James Buell from World of Beer Bar & Kitchen
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Will driverless deliveries reduce prices?
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Inclusive Innovation: Lauren Fernandez Ushers a New Era for Women and Minority Entrepreneurs in Dining
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Will AI take 10%-40% of restaurant jobs?
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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The Restaurant of the Future - A Panel at Cornell University
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Is 100% digital good for guests?
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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How to make Food Safety Easier through Tech - with Christine Schindler of Pathspot
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Restaurants platforms - are chains going to follow the hotel model?
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Sizzling Success: Culinary Content Giants Mike Duffy and Matt Holloway Serve Up a Digital Marketing Feast
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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How is spatial computing going to affect restaurants?
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Revolutionizing Pizza Delivery: Stellar Pizza's Robotic Trucks Speed into the Future
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Will the Rabbit R1 impact restaurants?
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Holistic Technology: Build Digital Ecosystems for Growth - An Investor's Perspective with Anand Gala
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Drone Delivery Is Happening Now
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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DISRUPT YOURSELF: Building the Future of Restaurants with Digitally Native Brands at Dom Food Group
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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What is set to have an amazing 2024?
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Be Guest Centric: Shake Shack's Art of Merging Hospitality with Digital Integration
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Masters of the F&B Universe (F&B tech leaders reflect on 2023 and forecast 2024)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Grow Topline: Virtual Restaurants and their untapped potential
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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The Ghost Kitchen Pivot, The Blurring of FoH & BoH and why should restaurants keep an eye on Walmart.
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Optimizing Throughput: Unlocking Restaurant Complexities and Innovations with Robin Robison at Modern Market Eatery
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Vegetarian Automation, The End of Lunch and Meyer’s not Qu’ing his investment into Qu
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Mine Data: Mastering the Art of Data in the Restaurant Industry with Andrew Smith of Savory Fund
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Unpacking DoorDash's Tipping Policy & Exploring Tech Advances in Wingstop and Starbucks
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Convert Fans: Driving first party channel success with Slutty Vegan
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Cyberattacks, a $14M investment into MoonBowls and which restaurants top the off-prem satisfaction report?
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Be Found: Behind the Success of Home State on DoorDash
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Wonder buys an apron, How Amazon's anti-trust suit affects restaurants and a $24M Blackbird Boost
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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What triggers loyal guests? Why stored value matters? And a Panda is getting sold in Asia
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Voice AI, Mobile pick up lanes and getting Phygital with the Tillster Report
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Generative AI cookies, Catering & Pizza Vending on the rise, and Deliveroo merges fulfilment channels
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Dine in is out at McDonalds, The Losers of the Mr Beast Fight and GoTab adds $18M to the check
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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How inflation is impacting loyalty, Is big-tech stifling innovation and how is automation helping Sweetgreen see a 5 point hike in margins
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Delivery Math, Avocado Peeling and Domino's join the marketplace party
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Doordash unveils new app updates and pay changes
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Nextbite’s next chapter, More layoffs in restaurant tech and Netflix has a pop-up in LA
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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The QR code is dead?, are Ghost Kitchens dying? And are Virtual Brands are on their last legs?
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Underground deliveries, Sweetgreen's got Spycy and what is your loyalty program costing you?
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May 22, 2023 |
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Food on Demand takeaways, DoorDash price parity, and Meredith is heading to Hollywood
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May 08, 2023 |
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Dominos in car ordering, what stood out at RLC & NCR's cyber security attack
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Tortoise robots, How Gen Z is eating and how do the delivery app algorithms work?
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Pay with your Palm at Panera Bread, Customizable tech-forward stirfrying, and DoorDash accepting cash
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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BurgerFi's flying into new technology, Shef's nationwide expansion, and Olo's restaurant of the future
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Photographic AI, Doordash results and Toast continues the acquisition spree
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Couch Dining made easier with Roku & why independents should be excited for the Google/Toast deal
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Starbucks doubling down on delivery, Smart cooler doors and pizza subscription vlogs
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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ChatGPT's role in restaurants, Chilis says no to robots and Wondering what Wonder does next?
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Our Predictions for 2023 and how successful were our predictions from 2022?
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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A $1.2 Billion Gorilla, McDonalds app test results, and do higher tips equal to faster deliveries?
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Domino's goes electric, Shake Shack's bullish on delivery and a billion guest sentiment data points
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Burgerflation, Subway Smart Fridges and mixed news for marketplaces
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Delco model adoption, Rain clouds at Cloud and an NFT Marketplace
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Kroger Acquires Alberton's...What Does It Mean for Restaurants?
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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First Party Ordering improves the customer experience
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Where automation really matters most - right now.
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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More virtual restaurants than physical?
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Which restaurants are winning through the labor crisis?
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Doordash into virtual brands, 7-Eleven acquires Skipcart and Wendy's slows Reef expansion
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Secret Menus, Instagram Maps & Restaurant Hiring Slowdown?
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Vertiports, Rest Tech Layoffs and Amazon back in the Restaurant Game?
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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30-minute free online ordering, QR Code Menus' future, and a restaurant lowering their prices?
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Panera's digital-only restaurant, Underground delivery, and is sous vide the answer to virtual brand success.
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Doordash data on 1PD adoption, what drives customers mad about delivery and a virtual brand marketplace.
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Why 41% of independent restaurants are using virtual brands, False Bananas and food supply challenges, Toast trends and Wow Bao's Bao Bucks.
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May 23, 2022 |
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Chipotle, Chick Fil-A, and Panera sees 60-70% orders through their direct channel
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May 09, 2022 |
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Just Eat selling Grubhub, Choco funding Bored Apes and more
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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The investment in Food Tech keeps coming, Chipotle's use of RFIDs and the latest on labor
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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DineBrands believes in virtual brands, the new stands of the drive-thru, and the dangers of 'to-go' packaging
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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No More Restaurant Revitalization Fund and more
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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New home portals, Olo buys Omnivore, and the Toast CEO says restaurants can do more with less
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Mondelez snack insights, Ronald McDonald NFTs, and DoorDash the bank
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Domino's tipping their customers, Double Dash innovation, and Why does no-one talk about Google in the Restaurant ordering space
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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NextGen mailboxes, restaurant-in-a-box robotics, and is TikTok Kitchens over before it even began?
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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The ClusterTruck scaling strategy, GoPuff goes proprietary, and Muncho's 7-minute pizza delivery
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Urbanization strategies, Beijing Olympic Robotics, and what intrigued us most in CES
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Half of US Consumers are now using meal delivery and Domino's are helping independent restaurants
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Our 2022 Predictions
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Dec 27, 2021 |