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Restaurant Operators On Life Before, During And After COVID-19

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Restaurants are tough businesses to operate, even in the best of times — 60 percent fail within their first year, and 80 percent within their first five. Yi said the impact of COVID-19 caught Zoku Sushi “completely flat-footed” by the nearly overnight shutdown that came to its base of operations in Midtown Manhattan. They went home.

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Today In How We Eat: Drone Deliveries Take Off, Walmart vs Amazon Prime

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This week, a new partnership was announced with Zipline technology to make on-demand deliveries of select health and wellness products with the potential to expand. According to Walmart, Zipline can operate within a Walmart store and from there within a roughly 50-mile radius, which is about the size of the state of Connecticut.

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Regional Banks Guide Corporates To Future-Proof Accounts Payable

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As many teams within businesses big and small had continued to rely on paper and manual processes, AP operations were tasked with migrating to a work-from-home environment quickly. Accounts payable (AP) teams and other financial functions of the enterprise were some of the hardest hit by the disruption caused by the global pandemic.

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The Latest Analog To Digital Battleground: Store Shelves

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Sometimes, a technology takes longer than expected to find its footing in a market. It seems that electronic shelf-label technology may be taking a similar slow-burn path to growth in the U.S., particularly in the grocery market. That’s because the tech itself has been around for a while. In fact, Pricer U.S.

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The Digital Evolution Of The Online Gaming Ecosystem

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Late last year, DraftKings reported $213 million in 2019 revenue and control of about 60 percent of the market, indicating that the industry as a whole had revenue north of $350 million – and that’s only counting the direct revenue brought in by wagers. The firm entered the public markets with a valuation of $3.3

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CardX CEO: Ban On Card Surcharge Ban May Lead to Lower Interchange Fees

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Razi, whose firm offers payments technology that automates compliance with rules for card surcharging, said that with the decision in the New York case, bans on the bans (so to speak) in the aforementioned states cover 40 percent of the U.S. population.

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While Some Malls Are On The Decline, Other Malls Bring In Billions In Sales

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Beyond Hawaii, GGP is one of the largest shopping center owners and operators in the U.S. A mall spokesperson told the Miami Herald that the fastest growing Latin American markets for the mall are Argentina, Mexico and Ecuador. Beyond Sawgrass, Simon is turning to technology to help make its malls more accessible to consumers.

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