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The whole menu, answered in one search

Menu search now reads names, descriptions and dietary tags, guests can ask the menu in a sentence, and the food-hall and QR settings around them.

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Phone bookings answered by AI, now built into stampede

Missed calls stop being missed bookings. Stampede's voice AI agent answers the phone, books guests onto your live day planner and confirms in seven languages.

Shipped in August 2026

The August 2026 shipped log: phone bookings, PIN handover at the pass, and deposit refunds straight from the booking.

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One system, three surfaces in the stampede redesign

Three surfaces that looked like three companies, rebuilt on one design system. The research behind it, the decisions it forced and an honest account of what is actually live.

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Shipped in July 2026

Everything that went live across Stampede in July 2026, from Sonos controls on the bookings day planner to the rebuilt Audience Builder.

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Built for your busiest season: what's new in stampede this May

Waitlists that refill cancelled tables, pre-order menus that sell before guests arrive, and bookings reporting that shows what's working. Everything live in Stampede this May.

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Control guest Wi-Fi bandwidth by audience

Bandwidth rules that know who the guest is. Stampede ties guest Wi-Fi allocation to your CRM audiences, applied by SNAPguard at connection.

How to increase restaurant revenue without adding work for your team

Bookings features that earn more while doing less: whole audiences into workflows in one click, bookable events, and upsells inside the booking flow.

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PayOS connects your Square till to your guest profile

The POS knows what was sold. Marketing knows who opted in. Neither knows it is the same guest. PayOS puts both on one profile, with loyalty linked to the payment card.

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Introducing Reviews+

Reviews+ turns review management from tab-hopping guesswork into one automatic flow: ask after the visit, reply in your voice, see how you compare nearby.

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What shipped at stampede in July 2025

Reviews+, the Square POS integration, AI in review management, a 60-day content calendar and your July venue snapshot.

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How workflows turn guest behaviour into automatic marketing

Triggers, nodes and waits: how Stampede workflows are built, the three flows worth setting up first, and the mistakes that make automated marketing annoying.

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