Archive - Expedite

WTF is ‘source of truth’?

When tech phrases becomes restaurant phrases.

Sep 3 • Kristen Hawley

August 2026

OpenTable + Square (again)

Square is now OpenTable’s ‘preferred point of sale partner’

Aug 18 • Kristen Hawley

Q&A: SevenRooms' Joel Montaniel

Updates from the co-founder and CEO of SevenRooms one year after that big acquisition

Aug 12 • Kristen Hawley

Toast's AI knows better than you do

'It's actually outperforming what humans can do.' — CEO Aman Narang

Aug 5 • Kristen Hawley

July 2026

I’m stuck in restaurant tech complaint Threads

…and I kind of love it.

Jul 29 • Kristen Hawley

Reservations *are* annoying now

Four industry-proposed solutions to the bookings blues... and how we got here in the first place.

Jul 24 • Kristen Hawley

Uber's $15 billion Delivery Hero deal

The local business of delivering dinner has an insatiable global hunger.

Jul 22 • Kristen Hawley

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 • Kristen Hawley

June 2026

So far, so good!

Top stories from an already record year for Expedite

Jun 30 • Kristen Hawley

Restaurant discovery powered by people

Eater’s editor-in-chief makes the case for an expert assist.

Jun 24

Why don't more restaurants have memberships?

A guest post by Gloria Dawson highlighting the ultimate loyalty play.

Jun 22

SevenRooms’ latest release helps restaurants consolidate reservations

Now we know why they were so mad about competitor OpenTable’s terms of service update.

Jun 17 • Kristen Hawley

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