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DoorDash acquires tech firm Symbiosys to supercharge its advertising business

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Photo: Shutterstock DoorDash is doubling down on its advertising business. It’s part of a major expansion of the company’s advertising business, DoorDash Ads, which currently allows restaurants to buy promotions and sponsored listings within the DoorDash marketplace. For Amazon, advertising has become a $50 billion annual business.

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

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News acquisitions technology Restaurant Business Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Maze is a longtime industry journalist who writes about restaurant finance, mergers and acquisitions and the economy, with a particular focus on quick-service restaurants. per share for the online ordering and payment company just four years after Olo went public.

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Waffle House lifts 50-cent egg surcharge as prices fall

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News prices commodities Breakfast Joe Guszkowski is a senior editor with Restaurant Business covering technology and casual-dining chains. Become a Restaurant Business member today and unlock exclusive benefits, including unlimited access to all of our content. Sign up here. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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Five Ways With Philadelphia

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09, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Kraft Heinz Versatile, consistent, and built for culinary creativity, Philadelphia Cream Cheese is The Original that chefs trust to do it all.

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Olive Garden sales surge on delivery and free take-home meals

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Toward the end of the quarter, the chain began advertising delivery on TV and elsewhere. News earnings casual_dining Joe Guszkowski is a senior editor with Restaurant Business covering technology and casual-dining chains. Its white-labeled delivery offering with Uber has become a significant sales driver, accounting for 3.5%

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C-stores are stealing fast-food tactics. And fast-food customers

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Salad is rising as the next drive-thru concept Technology Tech supplier SpotOn launches a mobile app to compete with aggregators Food C-stores are stealing fast-food tactics. Premium Technology DoorDash wants to be everywhere Tech Check: The delivery company is gobbling up more of the restaurant tech ecosystem.

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From acqui-hire to vaporware: The new restaurant tech ABCs

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Agentic AI is the next wave of the technology in which AI will be able perform tasks while more or less flying solo. There are already some restaurant applications for this technology , at least on the consumer side. Merriam-Webster You’ve likely heard of generative AI, or AI that can create content based on human input, like ChatGPT.

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