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The new-to-me org that's changing restaurants
MORE, a new coalition of heavy-hitting industry organizations, is working to harness a collective effort to support the future of restaurant work.
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Kristen Hawley
Cooking oil is political now
+ a potential DoorDash acquisition in Europe, a federal lawsuit against Uber, Toast lands Applebee’s, and more news
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Kristen Hawley
DoorDash responds to Uber’s lawsuit
A brief and fully layperson summary of DoorDash’s legal clapback
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Kristen Hawley
Seamless revives the dollar slice in New York
That’s one way to encourage app downloads!
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Kristen Hawley
DoorDash delivery bots land in LA
The third-party delivery company will make some deliveries via those cute Coco sidewalk robots roving Los Angeles streets. (They're in Chicago, too!)
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Kristen Hawley
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Welcome back, QR!
The newest SF location of the Flour+Water pizza empire is going big — like really big — on the divisive technology.
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Kristen Hawley
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Recommended reading: Chaos edition
The on-again, off-again tariffs are perhaps working as leaders intended, but the real-life effects of the associated uncertainty touch us all.
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Kristen Hawley
Blackbird's big loyalty play, revealed
The brand-new Blackbird Club grants special access to diners who show up and the employees who serve them.
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Kristen Hawley
What does fast food want with Nvidia?
Taco Bell’s parent company claims an industry first in a deal with the AI chip-designing powerhouse.
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Kristen Hawley
DoorDash gets Domino’s
This announcement has me nostalgic for the days of competitive exclusivity.
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Kristen Hawley
OpenTable and Uber partner
Reading between the lines of a deal involving the company that runs restaurant reservations and the ride-hailing app that wants to take you there
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Kristen Hawley

March 2025

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