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That they could become Intel at some point.
I actually prefer to invest in the restaurants themselves, Emily.
There are a few companies that have become very prominent in the public markets.
Toast is a great example, symbol T-O-S-T.
In this space, Toast provides a point-of-sale system, so it has a front-end
They take the payment.
They also use that as an ordering device.
But that's tied to a really good backend system, which gives restaurants a lot of visibility into the ordering and gives them a lot of other functions they can use that's optimized for the restaurant business.
But outside of Toast,
I don't like many other pure players in this space.
Then on the automation side, many of those companies that are starting to work with restaurant chains are privately held.
I don't see a lot of great options for investing.
Now, Shopify, symbol SHOP, is an interesting side door to this because they actually have a point-of-sale system for restaurants.
optimized solely for restaurants, but they have a huge app store.
There are many businesses which have been very successful on the Shopify platform.
Now, just quickly getting to businesses that I like, what's the investment case?
Look at Kava, symbol C-A-V-A.
two big distribution kitchens.
You can call them giant kitchens, which are full of tech.