article thumbnail

Olo to be sold to an investment firm in $2B deal

Restaurant Business

Olo was founded in 2005 and works with some 750 restaurant brands. per share for the online ordering and payment company just four years after Olo went public. Still, it takes private one of the industry’s most widely used tech companies and one of its earliest innovators, helping numerous restaurant chains take their businesses online.

article thumbnail

Consumer Dining Survey: Sales Inching Up; Basket Size Trending Down

Modern Restaurant Management

percent, the highest it's been since November 1981, not to mention the sharpest monthly increase the country has seen since 2005. Special occasion dining is on the rise. Come June, the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index saw that annual rate climb even further to 9.1 QSR net sales are up 1.4 percent.

2022 447
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

Published: 2005 ?? The QSRweb Podcast is a weekly show featuring the latest hot topics in the industry, with special guest appearances from brand leaders, chefs, and COOs. Hospitality Cost Control: A Practical Approach. ?? Author: Allen B. Topics: Finance; profitability; staffing. ??

Book 370
article thumbnail

The Kikkoman Soy Sauce Bottle Is Priceless

EATER

The Kikkoman dispenser is undeniably a global art object: It earned a spot at The Museum of Modern Art for its iconic design in 2005. The Kikkoman soy sauce bottle in its many iterations. Photos by Nippon & Co, lottaocean , modemedia , and irokk. Collectors also seek out beauty,” Ketcham continues.

Design 345
article thumbnail

You Should Be Drinking Grower Champagne

EATER

Marie Courtin is the work of all-world winemaker and farmer Dominique Moreau (the label is named for her grandmother), who since 2005 has cultivated an extraordinary plot of grapes in the very farthest southern corner of Champagne, in a region called the Aube. This is the wine that made me fall in love with grower Champagne.

article thumbnail

Here Are Barcelona’s Best Markets and Everything to Eat in Them

EATER

If there’s no room at Joan’s, vie for a table around the corner at La Pubilla, a cramped but worthy locale specializing in Catalan cooking. Originally from the Midwest, Chris Ciolli has lived in Barcelona since 2005. Gerard Moral is a Barcelona born and based photographer specializing in portrait, travel, and lifestyle photography.

Marketing 284
article thumbnail

How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

EATER

Since Eater was founded in 2005, the world of restaurant desserts has changed dramatically, turning into a venue for wild experimentation. Chef Massimo Bottura’s iconic broken lemon tart — inspired by an actual broken tart — requires both a thermal mixer and a Pacojet (a special ice cream machine that costs upwards of $8,000) to prepare.

2010 309