by Adam Wahlberg | Aug 29, 2024 | News
Spend any time with a restaurant operator who uses third-party delivery and you will hear the same thing: we wish we could get the names of the consumers. The provided data is generally just demographic. But Matt Smolin, who runs Hang, a brand loyalty and membership...
by Adam Wahlberg | Aug 27, 2024 | Automation, News
It’s one thing to make an order through an app and wait for the food to arrive. It’s another to make an order through an app and wait for the restaurant to arrive. Such is the promise of OLHSO, which is a Korean BBQ & seafood food truck that uses robots in...
by Adam Wahlberg | Aug 22, 2024 | Automation, News
It was last November when Curbit, a restaurant capacity-management platform, announced that it had signed up Smashburger. That made noise. And now it’s back with news that it is partnering with Microsoft to offer enhanced machine-learning capabilities for its clients,...
by Adam Wahlberg | Aug 21, 2024 | News, Top Stories
There are noble souls who insist that time stuck in traffic doesn’t bother them. That they can blissfully enjoy the time listening to podcasts. These are annoying people. For the rest of us, it’s aggravating. And for restaurants, it’s money lost. The...
by Adam Wahlberg | Aug 21, 2024 | News
There is no doubt that the world would be a healthier place if we all ate our brussels sprouts. But come on. Yuck. And therein lies the dilemma. We don’t always eat what is good for us, we never have, which leads to troubling health outcomes, from obesity to diabetes...