by Adam Wahlberg | Sep 15, 2025 | Automation, News
There’s an arms race going on among voice AI tech companies. The ones that with the most capabilities stand the best chance at getting a call from prized QSR operators. Vox AI recently completed a $8.7 fundraising round, bringing its total to $10 million, to...
by Adam Wahlberg | Sep 2, 2025 | Automation, News
America’s love affair with lunchtime burritos is no secret. Walk past any random cubicle at noon and chances are good you will find someone wolfing down a seven-layer something. Hot Head Burritos understands this and is revving up its catering and workplace food...
by Adam Wahlberg | Aug 25, 2025 | Automation, News
Ask restaurant managers in an unguarded moment what is the most frustrating part of their job and you likely will hear one thing: interruptions from staff. Questions come fast and they come furious. If only managers could tell colleagues to just check their phones and...
by Adam Wahlberg | Aug 6, 2025 | Automation, News
At one level a burger that can be put together by a robot in the time it takes a clock’s second hand to go from 12 to 6 may not be so special. Surely a human can do the same. But a human may get distracted. Or get tired. Or need a break. You know, human stuff. That...
by Adam Wahlberg | Aug 5, 2025 | Automation, News
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, VoicePlug offers one sincere ordering capability. VoicePlug, a provider of AI-powered voice solutions, has a feature in which the pace of a consumer’s order is mimicked by the AI. “When we work with a brand, we create a...
by Adam Wahlberg | Jul 29, 2025 | Automation, News
The ice cream truck experience has been the same since the 1950s. A truck wheels into a neighborhood. Kids spot the truck. Kids lose their minds. It’s like Santa Claus on wheels. Eric Murphy loves that as much as anyone. But he has reimagined something a little...