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Desk Review: Lightspeed Restaurant, the Quiet Half of the Duopoly
Lightspeed (NYSE/TSX: LSPD) just sold its U.S. hospitality book to Skyview and bet the rest on Europe. The AI roadmap is real but slim — a conversational layer, a benchmarks tool, a service-pacing product. A desk review of what Lightspeed actually ships in 2026.
Maya Lombardi
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Desk Review: What Yelp's AI Stack Actually Does for Restaurants
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Desk Review: SevenRooms vs Tablecheck, Two Reservations Platforms Built on Opposite Bets
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Desk Review: Toast's AI Suite, Read From the Outside
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Desk Review: Marriott's Tech Cutover on Hotel #1,000 and the Natural-Language Search Coming in Q2
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Vibe Check: Marriott's New Tech Ecosystem, on the Day the 1,000th Hotel Came Online
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Desk Review: Toast Drive-Thru — the bundle, the moat, and the 15-unit floor
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Desk Review: OpenTable's 'System of Record' — what restaurants are actually agreeing to on April 16
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Desk Review: SevenRooms vs Tablecheck — the post-DoorDash CRM stack
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Desk Review: Toast AI Suite — the agentic platform we were promised, with caveats
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Desk Review: SevenRooms vs Tablecheck post-DoorDash — who actually owns the guest data now?
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Desk Review: Toast IQ at One Hundred Days — What the Four-Month Mark Actually Looks Like From the Outside
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