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Why this POS company believes it can dominate the market for Asian restaurants

Tech Check: Chowbus has won over thousands of Asian operators by offering tech that speaks their language, literally. It just raised $81 million to keep expanding.

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Investor urges restaurant tech firm PAR to explore strategic alternatives

Voss Capital, which owns more than 13% of PAR stock, argued that the POS company’s struggling share price does not reflect its true value.

The most profitable brands skip the vanity metrics and stick to one practical framework.

Tech Check: There’s hope that chatbots could help restaurants cut out third-party middlemen. Right now, they seem to be doing the opposite.

The third-party delivery company is hiking commission rates in two of its three pricing tiers in an effort to cover rising costs. It will also charge more for access to its most frequent customers.

Parent company Block just shrunk its workforce by 40%, saying it plans to do more with AI. That has created uncertainty, and some unease, for restaurants that use Square POS.

The Olo App will feature hundreds of restaurant brands, giving customers a “remote control” for food ordering. Restaurants will pay no commissions and will get access to customer data from across the network.

Tech Check: Pincho CEO Otto Othman is now offering his "vibe-coded" recipe manager to other restaurants. He believes tech suppliers should be concerned about the rise of AI coding tools.

The company has rolled Zignyl into a new product called Zippy, an AI-powered data dashboard that operators can talk to like a chatbot.

The two American Express-owned platforms will become one under Resy this summer, roughly doubling its inventory.

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