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Asit Sharma

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

That they could become Intel at some point.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

I actually prefer to invest in the restaurants themselves, Emily.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

There are a few companies that have become very prominent in the public markets.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

Toast is a great example, symbol T-O-S-T.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

In this space, Toast provides a point-of-sale system, so it has a front-end

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

They take the payment.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

They also use that as an ordering device.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

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.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

But outside of Toast,

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

I don't like many other pure players in this space.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

Then on the automation side, many of those companies that are starting to work with restaurant chains are privately held.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

I don't see a lot of great options for investing.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

Now, Shopify, symbol SHOP, is an interesting side door to this because they actually have a point-of-sale system for restaurants.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

optimized solely for restaurants, but they have a huge app store.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

There are many businesses which have been very successful on the Shopify platform.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

Now, just quickly getting to businesses that I like, what's the investment case?

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

Look at Kava, symbol C-A-V-A.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

two big distribution kitchens.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Owning the Operating System

You can call them giant kitchens, which are full of tech.