restaurants
SOCi Restaurant Report Touts Localization as Key to COVID-Era Success
A new report from social media agency SOCi contends that a “localized” digital presence is a key indicator of success (or survival) for restaurants during
pandemic
Toast Rising Against Pandemic Headwinds
Toast, the Boston-based restaurant management SaaS player, has recently completed a secondary offering. And the company’s valuation has since surged from $4.9 billion in February
Modern Commerce Monitor
Another One Bites the Dust: The Sizzler’s Demise and the Future of Restaurants
The Sizzler restaurant chain has a special place in my family’s lore. My older brother Chris is today a successful musician and small business owner.
delivery apps
Restaurant Cooperative Chomps Back at High Delivery Commissions
We’ve written extensively about the local food scene in this space. Late last week we covered the acquisition of GrubHub by JustEat Takeaway and the recent rounds
InBev
ABI Taps Tiger Pistol for Campaign Supporting Restaurants and Pubs
It’s no secret that the COVID-19 crisis has been especially tough on bars and restaurants all over the world. Yet data that Tiger Pistol shared
restaurants
Localogy 20/20 Preview: Josh Scherman, SurePath Capital Partners
Josh Scherman has one of the best available vantage points for assessing the health of the small-business software market. SMB software was on fire in
brands
Are Food Delivery Apps the Chain Restaurants’ Trojan Horse?
Restaurant delivery app Olo Founder & CEO Noah Glass has been making the rounds to talk up his company’s recent integration with Google, which he
7Shifts
Money Keeps Flowing into Restaurant Vertical
This week the Toronto-based restaurant point-of-sale player TouchBistro has raised CAD158 million in a Series E round led by OMER Growth Equity. TouchBistro claims 16,000 restaurant
podcast
New Podcast: “Turning Customers into Advocates” featuring Andrea Kayal, Upserve
Our latest Above the Cloud podcast features Andrea Kayal, chief marketing officer of Upserve, a business management platform for full-service restaurants that emerged out of
7Shifts
New Podcast: “Happiness and Efficiency in the Workplace” featuring 7Shifts
Jordan Boesch got the idea to build a great software product from watching his dad struggle with a combination of excel spreadsheets and sticky notes