by Nancy Luna | Jul 15, 2024 | News
Takeout and delivery are fast-growing segments for limited-service restaurants. Kernel, a plant-forward eatery by Chipotle founder Steve Ells, was designed to take advantage of this trend. The cashierless New York City restaurant opened in February with no seating as...
by Adam Wahlberg | Jul 11, 2024 | News, Top Stories
The way Cynthia Hollen sees it, the next disruptive technology isn’t ChatGPT or facial recognition. It’s your dashboard. Hollen, CEO of Mavi.io, which offers a platform for in-car retail commerce called OnMyWay, delivered a Knight Rider vision for the future at...
by Nancy Luna | Jul 10, 2024 | Automation, News, Top Stories
CaliExpress by Flippy bills itself as the world’s first fully autonomous restaurant. The fast-food restaurant, operated by Miso Robotics in Pasadena, California, is an hour’s drive from my home, so I set out after the July 4 holiday to check out the pop-up eatery. At...
by Bernadette Heier | Jul 10, 2024 | News
Fueled by the restaurant industry’s push to use tech for better efficiency, two big AI-voice ordering players have teamed up. ConverseNow, which automates ordering for restaurants with AI, announced Tuesday it’s acquiring Valyant AI, a provider of drive-thru...
by Adam Wahlberg | Jul 9, 2024 | Finance, News
German company Delivery Hero (DH), which operates in more than 70 countries and partners with around a half-million restaurants, may face a fine of nearly a half-billion dollars from the European Commission (EC) for alleged antitrust violations connected to its...
by Matthew Liedke | Jul 3, 2024 | Automation, News
Nearly 70 percent of quick-service restaurant sales nationwide take place in drive-thrus, and thanks to new technology, marketers see a way to connect with customers like never before. That was the conclusion in a report released by the Chief Marketing Officer...