Marketing Your Restaurant on Third-Party Platforms
Third-party platforms bring plenty of new tools to the table for business owners. But industry leaders at FODC ‘22 said restaurant fundamentals remain the most important component. The panel, moderated by Meredith Sandland, managing director of Delivering the Digital...
Dexai ‘Robotic Sous Chef’ Scaling Up with Flexible Robotics
A robotic food-assembly robot from Dexai is looking for some new kitchens with flexibility as a key focus. Essentially, the robot dubbed Alfred is a food safe-certified robotic arm on a cart. It can sit in front of a row of hotel pans of ingredients, and uses...
Why Off-Premises Reconciliation is Suddenly Such a Big Deal
Reconciliation is not exactly a sexy topic, but as delivery continues to grow and new channels continue to emerge, it has become a major headache for operators. The accounting process of ensuring two sets of financial data match comes up all over business, but...
Chick-fil-A Testing Autonomous Delivery in Austin
As one of the primary restaurant trendsetters, Chick-fil-A is testing autonomous delivery with Refraction AI at two restaurants in Austin, Texas, is certainly headline-generating news. Through the partnership, a fleet of self-driving robots in downtown Austin are...
Wing Zone Commits to Major Robotics Partnership
Miso Robotics’ Flippy will be making a lot of wings under a new partnership with Wing Zone. The Atlanta-based, 61-location wing purveyor announced it would make the latest version of the robot “a part of the chain’s standard build for all future restaurant...
Outstanding Operators
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