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An Analysis of Marketing In the Restaurant POS Industry (2021)

Crayon

In recent years, point of sale ( POS) systems have become a key differentiator for restaurants across the globe. These systems allow restaurateurs to meet many practical needs such as growing profits, running more efficient and organized businesses, and improving bookkeeping.

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Chipotle’s recipe for digital transformation: Cloud plus AI

CIO

When Curt Garner became Chipotle’s first CIO in 2015, the only technology used for online restaurant ordering was, “believe it or not,” a fax machine, he says. Chipotle’s digital business in 2022 was $3.5 Chipotle’s digital business in 2022 was $3.5 Seven years later, the Newport Beach, Calif.-based

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Restaurant and QSR Trends & Outlook for 2024

Alpha Sense BI

Like many other industries, the restaurant sector was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many businesses shuttering doors and many others struggling to make ends meet. This is for good reason— technological solutions make dining easier , both for customers and restaurants.

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Schrodinger’s Open Banking

CIO

Generally, the intent of these regulations is to spur competition among banks, foster budding fintech ecosystems within countries, and give banking customers more access and control over their data. The competition is Toast. And so open banking has spread. The recent $20bn Toast IPO illustrates the possibilities.

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Schrodinger’s Open Banking

CIO

Generally, the intent of these regulations is to spur competition among banks, foster budding fintech ecosystems within countries, and give banking customers more access and control over their data. The competition is Toast. And so open banking has spread. The recent $20bn Toast IPO illustrates the possibilities.

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Cloud native platforms: To build or to buy?

CIO

Platforms support the software you’ve built to run your business. The main issue here is that it drags down the actual business because an organization’s apps are increasingly how the business functions, and even what the business is to customers. Is Kubernetes a platform? This is a lot of work.

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How to incubate a winning innovation program

CIO

When leaders consider how technology has enabled the transformation of business models over the past several years, few would disagree that the world has changed dramatically. Tesla, Uber, and many other stories of business innovation have this in common: Their business models have technology at their cores.