Solution Provider News

The Company Formerly Known as eatsa Unveils Its New (Brightloom) Identity, (Starbucks-Licensed) Platform, and ($30M) Funding Round

Not just one but several big announcements are coming out of the corporate communications office of the company formerly known as eatsa. Now called Brightloom, the San Francisco- and Seattle-based technology solution provider today unveiled […]

Employee Scheduling

HotSchedules Merges with Fourth, Creating a Workforce Management and Restaurant Operations Platform Powerhouse

Restaurant workforce and inventory management solutions provider HotSchedules and hospitality workforce management and cost-control operations platform Fourth today announced that the two companies have merged business operations in an agreement backed by Marlin Equity Partners […]

Solution Provider News

Restaurant365 Closes $88 Million Funding Round to Expand Operations

Restaurant365 announced today that it has closed an $88 million minority investment led by ICONIQ Capital, a Silicon Valley growth equity firm. This marks Restaurant365’s third round of funding after closing nearly $40 million in […]

Solution Provider News

OpenTable Partners With Upserve, Connecting Guest Preferences, Reservation Information, and POS Data

OpenTable has announced what it is calling an industry-first partnership. The partner is restaurant management platform Upserve. By joining forces, the two companies are seeking to enable real-time, two-way data flow between OpenTable’s GuestCenter operating […]

Announcement

Restaurant Management Platform xtraCHEF Secures $7.5 Million Series A Funding

xtraCHEF was founded on the premise that archaic, paper-based processes in back-of-house operations in restaurants across the country could easily be resolved by readily available enterprise technologies. The company, which offers a cloud-based restaurant management […]

AI / Robots

New AI Solution Enables Restaurants to Instantly Deliver Personalized Menus Based On Guests’ Dietary Restrictions

Today, over 100 million Americans are following special diets with multiple restrictions. To help restaurants address this reality, New York City-based solution provider THE.FIT has launched a menu personalization engine that allows them to create […]

Announcement

Punchh Launches Sentiment Analysis Solution for Restaurants

Text analytics as it pertains to listening to the voice of the customer has rapidly evolved in recent years. This has given marketing, market research and other industry practitioners a high degree of confidence in […]

Announcement

Toast Adds Seven Restaurant Technology Integration Partners

Like all other solution providers operating in this competitive restaurant POS arena, Boston-based Toast aims to help restaurants of all sizes solve some of the industry’s most pressing challenges. First and foremost, these challenges include […]