RocketBox Aims To Be the Next Big AI-Powered KDS
Ross Cronin speaks from his Dublin office, with rain pelting his window. He’s used to it. “We really only have one season,” he said with a laugh. “Our summer is only a few days.” But the rain isn’t darkening his mood about the pending launch of RocketBox, his company...
SoundHound AI Rolls Out New Voice Features and Bets Big on Cars
SoundHound AI has been living up to its name lately by making a lot of noise in the Voice AI industry. The company, which powers more than 10,000 restaurant locations with its voice and conversational technology, recently announced new tools for operators, including...
Kea Introduces An AI Phone System That Can Be Set Up in One Hour
Voice AI solutions for phone ordering aren’t exactly a new thing. Kea has been offering them since 2017. But back then it would take three to six months to get a voice-ordering interface up and running. Today it takes an hour. “It’s taken years of development effort...
Richtech Robotics Opens a Café With a Talking Humanoid Barista
It’s one thing to go a traditional coffee shop and have a barista give you a smile and write your name on a cup. It’s another to go to Clouffee & Tea in Las Vegas and have an egg-shaped robot train its machine vision on you and digitally say, “Hello!” Matt...
ClearCOGS Deploys AI for Clear Forecasting
When Matt Wampler, co-founder of ClearCOGS, a company that provides AI-powered forecasting tools for restaurants, ran Jimmy John’s restaurants in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, he had an old-fashioned approach to inventory management. “A couple hours prior to close,...
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