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Smart Refrigeration Solutions Get Smarter about Reducing Food Waste

Accurately, efficiently, and reliably monitoring food from refrigerator to table is no easy task. In fact, it’s one of the biggest challenges in the restaurant industry. In the United States alone, food waste is estimated […]

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Nudge Rewards Secures $9.3 Million, Helping Restaurants Improve Guest-facing Employee Performance

Nudge Rewards has emerged as one of the leading mobile-first hospitality solutions in guest-facing employee communication and engagement. According to the company, its customers have seen adoption rates exceed 80%, with frontline employees at 6,000-plus restaurant […]

Employee Scheduling

Toast Acquires StratEx, Enhancing Its Restaurant HR Capabilities

In April, Toast announced that it had raised $250 million in Series E funding at a whopping $2.7 billion valuation. The fresh investment has been going a long way toward enabling Toast to extend its platform […]

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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 […]

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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 […]