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OpenTable + Square (again)
Square is now OpenTable’s ‘preferred point of sale partner’
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Fund this restaurant, get free pasta
It even vibe-coded guest tracking software.
Aug 17
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Kristen Hawley
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Tock restaurants are in Resy now
Wineries, too! (And more news.)
Aug 11
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Kristen Hawley
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I listened to Travis Kalanick discuss his latest $ round so you don’t have to
...and more restaurant news
Jul 27
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NYC's surprising appetite for chain restaurants
The transplants are thriving! (And more restaurant stories of note.)
Jul 17
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Kristen Hawley
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Q&A: SevenRooms' Joel Montaniel
Updates from the co-founder and CEO of SevenRooms one year after that big acquisition
Aug 12
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Kristen Hawley
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Toast's AI knows better than you do
'It's actually outperforming what humans can do.' — CEO Aman Narang
Aug 5
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Kristen Hawley
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I’m stuck in restaurant tech complaint Threads
…and I kind of love it.
Jul 29
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Kristen Hawley
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Reservations *are* annoying now
Four industry-proposed solutions to the bookings blues... and how we got here in the first place.
Jul 24
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Kristen Hawley
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Uber's $15 billion Delivery Hero deal
The local business of delivering dinner has an insatiable global hunger.
Jul 22
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Kristen Hawley
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OpenTable ends its US Visa deal
OpenTable will keep the good tables for itself instead, but the platform's credit card partnerships aren't totally dead.
Jul 8
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Kristen Hawley
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So far, so good!
Top stories from an already record year for Expedite
Jun 30
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Kristen Hawley
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Amex pulls its Noma LA support
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Pour one out for Tock
Feb 24
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Toast + Resy (and Tock… and Amex)
Aug 5, 2025
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Square’s layoffs, AI, and the future
Mar 9
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What restaurants can learn from airlines about loyalty
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