MONDAY MINUTE: February 28, 2022

Check out our thoughts and views on the world of restaurants, technology, and off-premise food in our round-up of some of last week's hot news stories.

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Olo in the news with their Q4 results. What's the thinking behind the Omnivore acquisition and Olo Pay?

Menu innovation coming from influencers. Do restaurants need an innovation team anymore?

BlackBox released some information regarding January traffic slowing. Do inflationary pressures indicate this will become a trend in 2022?

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.

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.

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