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Tech Tracker: How digital tech is capitalizing on the hot restaurant reservations market
Tock and Google now offer experience reservations; Diibs launches as a platform for bidding on last-minute reservations
Lisa Jennings
With the recession swelling the ranks of Americans receiving federal assistance to feed themselves and their families, a growing number of restaurant operators are throwing their support behind a program that would allow those most in need to use such benefits in restaurants.
Once known as the Food Stamp Program, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, offers financial assistance to help those on limited incomes buy food. Typically, the benefit comes in the form of an Electronic Benefit Transfer, or EBT, card, which can be used like a debit card to pay for groceries.
SNAP’s goal is to help those who qualify buy fresh food to prepare home-cooked meals. But within the program is an option for the homele...
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