Kiwibot Plans Campus Expansion After Sodexo Contract, $7.5M Investment
More than 1,200 of Kiwibot’s adorable delivery robots will soon be roaming 50 college campuses across the U.S. by the end of the year, thanks to a new multimillion-dollar contract with Sodexo and a $7.5 million pre-Series A investment, bringing its total fundraising...
New Tools from Thanx Promise a Custom Loyalty Mousetrap
Loyalty is top of mind for the restaurant industry as operators look to build a better mousetrap and bring customers back again and again. For companies leading in loyalty, that’s a great way to keep customers close, but with every new loyalty program, the...
Behind Pizza Hut’s Automated Kitchen, Massive Potential to Scale
The pace of innovation around automated foodservice is nothing short of explosive. Hyper Robotics is pushing the limits with a near fully-automated Pizza Hut restaurant, but wants to translate that pace into scale for new brands. “The biggest story of all is not...
Last Mile? DroneDek Examines Last Two Feet
Last-mile delivery is a place of explosive innovation, but DroneDek is thinking ahead to the future of the last two feet. The company has created a smart mailbox. It’s loaded with sensors and cameras, UV lights for disinfecting packages, flashing strobes for...
Club Feast Finds Incremental Revenue in Slow Hours
Incremental is the word used all across the food delivery space. Third-party aggregators promise orders that restaurants never would have seen. It’s largely proven to be accurate, but Club Feast was built on the idea of creating incremental revenue on top of...
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