by Adam Wahlberg | Jun 18, 2025 | Automation, News
It wasn’t that long ago when restaurant tech providers bragged about system-wide integration capabilities. A big deal. It’s still a big deal. But now, they are talking up something else: AI capabilities. In the past couple months, several big providers in restaurant...
by Adam Wahlberg | Jun 17, 2025 | Automation, News
A key temperature for making risotto, once you sauté the onions in oil and toast the rice, is 207 degrees. That’s when the white wine will boil. Then you dial up the temperature to 208 and add water. And you keep adding small amounts of water during careful intervals....
by Adam Wahlberg | Jun 13, 2025 | Automation, News Briefs
Coco Robotics, the autonomous vehicles company for delivery, announced $80 million in strategic financing to advance its AI platform, scale its fleet, and grow enterprise partnerships. The funding includes returning investors Sam and Max Altman, Pelion, Outlander, and...
by Adam Wahlberg | Jun 11, 2025 | Automation, News
Hot, fresh baskets of fries produced in 15 to 30 seconds with no human involvement. That’s a lofty ambition. That’s what Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers thinks it can achieve with its RoboFry system, which it will be bringing into locations starting in...
by Adam Wahlberg | Apr 28, 2025 | Automation, News
Taco Cabana had a problem any brand would love, a heavy volume of off-premises orders from its 148 locations. A good problem but a problem nonetheless. It was an issue of synchronization. Fulfilling the wide variety of orders in an appropriate and timely fashion was...
by Adam Wahlberg | Apr 9, 2025 | Automation, News Briefs
Papa Johns is partnering with Google Cloud for AI integration and to upgrade its customer experience. And it means business with it. It launched PJX, an internal innovation team, specifically to leverage Google Cloud’s AI, data analytics and machine-learning...