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Writing from the studio on operations software, food & hospitality technology, and what it actually takes to build and run products — from people who do both.

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✦ Hospitality Why commission-free ordering is the future of hospitality tech
Third-party apps sold restaurants convenience and billed them in commission, data and lost customers. Commission-free ordering is a different deal.
Apostolos Michailidis 28 May 2026 3 min read

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The hidden cost of procurement chaos in independent hospitality
Independent venues lose hours and margin every week to ordering by phone, fax and memory. Nobody bills you for chaos — but you pay for it.
Apostolos Michailidis 14 May 2026 3 min

Why UK food distributors need their own software stack
Routing, ordering and accounts are the unglamorous core of distribution — and the spreadsheets holding them together have a ceiling. Here's where it is.
Apostolos Michailidis 28 Apr 2026 3 min

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