Restaurants Face Rising Costs but Stay Resilient
Running a restaurant is getting harder. Rising food and labor costs, supply chain issues, and changing consumer spending habits have made day-to-day operations more complex. To understand how operators are handling it, Toast surveyed 712 restaurants across the country...
Wonder to Buy ‘Infinite Kitchen’ Tech from Sweetgreen. What’s next?
Sweetgreen has sold Spyce, the robotics and technology behind its Infinite Kitchen format, to Wonder, the multi-concept restaurant company founded by Marc Lore. The $186.4 million sale transfers ownership of the automation platform that has shaped Sweetgreen’s newest...
Operators Want Precision, Inside the AI Shift Conversation
When Harri CEO Luke Fryer sat down with Amin Birju, VP of Technology at Taco Bell, and Doug Cook, CTO at Jack in the Box, the talk went straight to the everyday headaches operators know all too well. Thin crews, unpredictable rushes, late-night chaos, and avoidable...
DoorDash and Coco Robotics Expand to Miami
DoorDash and Coco Robotics are expanding their autonomous delivery partnership to Miami, building on earlier launches in Los Angeles and Chicago. Coco will also begin handling select orders from DashMart, DoorDash’s delivery-only storefront stocked with...
Outstanding Operators
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