- November 10, 2023
The earnings deluge is what moved names this past week — and for the FinTech IPO Index, the movement was mostly to the downside.
The index lost 1.8%, led by Oportun ...
- November 7, 2023
Restaurant point of sale (POS) provider Toast has attributed its strong quarterly performance to location additions and balancing top-line growth while optimizing operational efficiency.
Third-quarter (Q3) earnings results announced on Tuesday ...
- November 3, 2023
Earnings season is in full swing, and has given several names in the FinTech IPO Index a boost.
Through the past five days, the index surged 6%.
NerdWallet shares soared 67%. The ...
- November 1, 2023
Toast debuted a mobile app that lets restaurateurs manage their eateries on the go.
Toast Now is part of a larger product rollout by the restaurant technology company that includes upgrades ...
- September 15, 2023
This week in restaurant news, technology providers are unveiling more specialized offerings to cut through the noise.
Toast launched a solution specifically for cafes and bakeries, Oracle introduced its offering for ...
- September 15, 2023
The FinTech IPO Index traded slightly lower, off 0.7%, as platforms led the group to the downside.
But even with the dip, the Index itself is up slightly more than 35% ...
- September 8, 2023
Earnings season has trailed off — and now come the headlines focused on technology, partnerships and entry into new markets as FinTechs continue to try and disrupt everything from lending ...
- September 5, 2023
Restaurant point of sale (POS) provider Toast has a new chief executive.
Aman Narang, who co-founded the firm in 2011 and has served as its chief operating officer since 2021, will become CEO ...
- August 11, 2023
Seemingly everywhere you looked this past week, earnings were the sole arbiter of how stocks performed.
And no matter the earnings, almost across the board, the performance was decidedly to the ...
- August 8, 2023
Less than a month after restaurant point of sale (POS) provider Toast rolled back its decision to add a $0.99 fee for consumers on online orders of $10 or more, company executives have ...
- August 2, 2023
Toast is looking to move beyond its roots as a restaurant point-of-sale (POS) provider.
The company debuted Toast Catering & Events, a new tool integrated with its POS to help restaurants ...
- July 21, 2023
Toast shares got scorched in a week that saw the FinTech IPO Index give up 0.3%.
And earnings season has yet to begin in earnest — at least for the FinTechs.
Beyond ...
- July 19, 2023
Well, that was quick — less than a month after sharing that it would add a $0.99 fee for consumers on online orders of $10 or more, restaurant point of ...
- July 17, 2023
Dental supply provider Torch Dental announced a $28 million Series B round with the goal to digitize the billion-dollar dental supply chain.
Bringing its total funding to $40 million, the new investment will ...
- June 26, 2023
After spending the last 20 minutes online deliberating over what you really need to round out your summer wardrobe, you’re ready to check out. You review your basket, apply the ...
- June 15, 2023
As restaurants look to attract consumers on crowded digital platforms, the most important digital profile, PYMNTS research reveals, is not Yelp, nor is it any of their social media pages. ...
- May 12, 2023
Earnings, earnings, everywhere — and for the FinTech IPO Index, a notable rally marked the past five sessions.
The overall index was up 9.3%.
Blend Labs led the charge, where shares soared ...
- May 9, 2023
As restaurant technology providers compete for eateries’ loyalty, small independents and major brands are looking for different capabilities and features, Toast noted on its latest earnings call.
The cloud-based restaurant point ...
- February 27, 2023
Fast-casual restaurants are expanding their drive-thru efforts to attract convenience-seeking consumers, gaining share from QSRs.
In this month’s wave of restaurant earnings calls, leading chains spoke to their efforts in the ...
- February 23, 2023
The FinTech IPO Index was down 4.4% heading into the last few trading days of February.
And as detailed earlier in the week, even though the group is still up year ...
- February 16, 2023
The earnings cavalcade continues. For the FinTech IPO Index, gainers battled declining stocks to a draw.
The overall Index inched up 1.2% through the past five sessions. February is shaping up ...
- February 16, 2023
Toast is counting on drive-thru to offer the efficiency boost restaurants need amid current challenges.
The restaurant technology company announced Thursday (Feb. 16) alongside its fourth-quarter 2022 financial results that it ...
- February 7, 2023
ResTech firm Toast has teamed with Google to streamline online ordering.
The company has integrated Order With Google into its platform, allowing restaurants to unlock a new channel for orders, Toast ...
- January 27, 2023
With restaurants struggling to maintain profits, legacy B2B payment practices may drain revenue they can’t afford to lose.
Although many restaurants have adopted consumer-facing innovations to stay competitive in a tight ...
- January 17, 2023
Voice AI is smartening up to fulfill the promise of life without keyboards.
Many of us have marveled at the dumbness of answers that, say, Siri often responds with, but voice ...
- November 18, 2022
Not everything was about crypto-land these past several days in the tech space.
Of course, you’d be hard-pressed to think that anything happened other than FTX’s meltdown, bankruptcy filing, and seismic ...
- November 10, 2022
Restaurant technology platform Toast said the disproportionate challenges affecting independent restaurant operators provided a strong business opportunity to offer labor and productivity services to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
The comments ...
- October 12, 2022
Today in B2B payments, Walmart announces upcoming changes to its data monetization platform, Toast helps restaurants with catering and wholesale orders, and Nuvei adds a payments interface for businesses of ...
- October 12, 2022
Digital platform for restaurants Toast has launched a new product that helps restaurants manage catering and wholesale orders as well as in-person, takeout and delivery business.
Dubbed Toast Invoicing, the new ...
- August 11, 2022
Restaurant-based digital tech platform Toast said it saw a record increase in new location adds, as economic conditions push consumers and businesses to find new cost savings amid rising prices.
According ...
- July 7, 2022
Today in the connected economy, Amazon tries to attract influencers to its livestream shopping service, while Pinterest invests more in social commerce.
Amazon Lures Influencers to Fire Up Livestream Shopping in ...
- July 7, 2022
Today in food commerce, restaurant technology company Toast acquires employee management solutions provider Sling, and supermarkets turn to white-label alternatives to third-party aggregators. Plus, Instacart announces new features to attract ...
- July 7, 2022
As customer payments power the restaurant industry, payment processing solutions power the technology that holds it all together, or at least they will if point-of-sale (POS) providers have anything to ...
- July 7, 2022
Digital tech platform for restaurants Toast is finalizing a deal for the acquisition of employee scheduling, communication and management solution Sling for undisclosed terms, according to a press release on ...
- May 3, 2022
Today in the connected economy, Samsung makes a deal with Dish to sell equipment for its soon-to-launch American 5G network.
Also, restaurant software firm Toast launches a tool for hotel restaurants, ...
- May 3, 2022
Restaurant software provider Toast has launched Toast for Hotel Restaurants, a tool that integrates with hotel property management systems to help eateries function more smoothly.
“Hotels are adding more curated food ...
- April 21, 2022
Product announcements, new pacts, cash back cards — none of it enough to give PYMNTS’ class of digital startups, newly trading on U.S. stock exchanges, a bounce.
To that end, the ...
- April 6, 2022
In payments, there are the disruptors — and the risk that the disruptors get disrupted.
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) companies and other FinTechs that promise to change the ways commerce ...
- January 3, 2022
In 2021, restaurants and grocery stores took the digital developments that had gotten underway the previous year to the next level, increasingly bringing the food commerce experience into the eCommerce ...
- November 17, 2021
Today in restaurant and grocery tech news, Target’s digital investments led to food and beverage growth, while Google made moves to replace Instacart as the go-to grocery aggregator. Plus, the ...
