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New home portals, Olo buys Omnivore, and the Toast CEO says restaurants can do more with less

February 28, 2022 • Carl Orsbourn & Meredith Sandland

Articles mentioned:
Olo in the news with their Q4 results. What's the thinking behind the Omnivore acquisition and Olo Pay?
https://bit.ly/3C0wUrR

Menu innovation coming from influencers. Do restaurants need an innovation team anymore?
https://bit.ly/3vnSJR2

BlackBox released some information regarding January traffic slowing. Do inflationary pressures indicate this will become a trend in 2022?
https://bit.ly/3BUibyM

The next gadget for your home could be in the walls by your front door. High's Fresh Portal is trying to achieve something here akin to delivery lockers
https://bit.ly/36N5ZEw

Chris Comparato, CEO of Toast was on Yahoo Finance talking about restaurants doing more with less. He said 'restaurants can do a better job with driving revenue'. The one stat that stood out is that per employee at a Toast enabled restaurant is doing 4.5% more orders per hour than in 2020.
https://yhoo.it/33ZFBpW

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