What Can Restaurants Learn from Retail?

In this week's The Digital Restaurant podcast, we discuss the following key headlines, and here are some of our key quotes. To get the transcript of our podcast - head here.

Articles mentioned in the video:

1. DoorDash and Toast are quietly becoming Shopify

Related Article: DoorDash Debuts Commerce Platform, Mobile App Support for Merchants

"These companies are really trying to build a full solution." - Meredith

2. Instacart is likewise wrapping around its B&M clients

Related Articles: Instacart focuses on diversifying tech, brand partners to fuel growth

Instacart adds games, personalized coupons to its smart carts

"It does make me wonder if there's an opportunity to turn our digital assets into a revenue stream." - Carl

3. Supply chain AI supporting Wendy's & Chipotle

Related Articles: Supply chain AI supporting Wendy's

"You can't have sustainability without traceability." - Meredith, quoting Lumachain

4. Lists - finally!

"This idea of being able to engage with our food delivery apps is actually a far more collaborative, almost community-oriented approach." - Carl

5. 3 reasons to be excited about restaurant delivery

"Delivery jumped 15% at QSR in Q3 compared to declining traffic overall." - Meredith

Additional Articles:

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7. Wonder Gets Smaller

8. Niccol's first move is to get one of his stars from Chipotle

How do great restaurant execs make good cross-functional decisions?

"Beware of Marketplaces bearing gifts" is classic phrase!

Restaurant inflation slows...but is it enough?

Hngry Summit coming up!

Are you in Tokyo, Japan? Meet up with Carl as he will be speaking about the frontier of restaurant technology this weekend at the SKS Global Food Tech summit.