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NYC's surprising appetite for chain restaurants

OpenTable ends its US Visa deal

A confession

So far, so good!

Restaurant discovery powered by people

Why don't more restaurants have memberships?

Toast wants to open a restaurant

SevenRooms’ latest release helps restaurants consolidate reservations

Amex is buying another reservations platform

Big Qs about the future of booking a table

The problem with AI-assisted marketing

Why reservations platforms* pay restaurants

Google is making big changes to search

'I vibe-coded a personal restaurant reservation agent'

DoorDash isn’t afraid of your AI agents

Exclusive: EHI backs Blink with $17 million

AI-generated restaurants are bad

Top Tock exec is leaving Amex

A brief Toast takeover that'll last all year

Gwyneth Paltrow answered my question about Goop Kitchen

How pay-what-you-can actually works

Starbucks as social currency

The FTC examines restaurant pricing on delivery platforms

DoorDash goes the White House

Not your average success stories

Okay fine I’ll download Beli

Another Square exec leaves the company

'This is kind of controversial, but…'

What is Bilt Hospitality?

'Service Ready' is ready for service

OpenTable pokes its competition

Wonder goes to Texas

Ghost kitchens were never the point

Noma + the real industry power players

Amex pulls its Noma LA support

Square’s layoffs, AI, and the future

Calling a McD's burger a ‘product’ is not weird.

Olo's consumer play

Square's head of f&b is among Block departures

Pour one out for Tock

DoorDash's “massive and expensive undertaking”

Toast has big plans for AI

Would you date an AI avatar?

'Yikes, the health inspector's here!'

Uber is required to pay millions in NYC

Ask the somm... or ChatGPT?

How restaurant delivery reshaped American life

Voice AI + restaurants: a Q&A

Grubhub goes to the Super Bowl

Restaurant Links

What restaurants can learn from airlines about loyalty

Restaurant Links

Looking forward: Restaurants on Substack

No feelings. That's the point!

Influencers programming food robots goes too far.

Restaurant Links

Looking forward: GLP-1s and restaurants

About that viral Reddit delivery app post…