Just listened to Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman on This Week in Startups and... I can't believe Neman sat through an hour+ interview without correcting host Jason Calacanis each time he called the restaurant 'Sweetgreens.'

Mood.

Let's not forget Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, signed a deal with OpenAI in December. nytimes.com/2024/01/25/bus…

'We've sort of stopped trying.'

Well, that's one way to keep your subscriber numbers up, Business Insider

Hey it's true I don't love this place at the moment but Kristen Hawley is not for sale, please stop asking, please.

Proud to share my first magazine #longread , a story about Zume, the failed robot pizza company that was never really about robot pizza. In print and online for @fastcompany: fastcompany.com/90979001/zume-…

Periodic reminder that if you are fed up with digital tip prompts, you can just decline to use them.

Outfit changes!

New founders in the restaurant industry love to take credit for inventing things that they didn't invent. (This is from today's FORTUNE Term Sheet newsletter.)

Neighborhood restaurant solves the soggy fries problem.

The The New York Times borrowed my color scheme for its restaurant technology feature today. Expedite is flattered to be the steward of the official color of restaurant tech on the internet!

Hashtag hospitality investment problems

If we call it 'surge pricing' it'll never fly, but restaurants experimenting with dynamic pricing are seeing some success. Could it ever reach critical mass? Happy to share my thoughts with @themadfeed this week: madfeed.co/2023/the-econo…

Finally, a fair The New York Times piece on #sanfrancisco – not shying away from the warts (which are real, particularly downtown) but also highlighting the extraordinary beauty & special culture. Thanks Heather Knight for the copy and Jim Wilson for the stunning photos.
nytimes.com/2023/09/25/us/…

New York always has a way of making my last minutes really count. “All trains of Penn delayed,” miss you too, stupid city. (But I do.)