- In an update on its restaurant partnerships, Yelp (YELP) says it helped seat 22M diners in December, with those directly booking through Yelp's app tripling Y/Y in Q4.
- The company saw a record-setting Valentine's Day week by handling 5.6M diners with its reservation/waitlist software, it says.
- Meanwhile a partnership with GrubHub (GRUB) drove food orders and takeout on Yelp to 27% growth in Q4 to a new record high.
- Yelp introduced new products like Yelp Kiosks to help with restaurant management and says its wait time algorithm is twice as accurate as human host estimates.