PAR Is Helping Digital Marketers Reverse a Post-Covid Engagement Slump
Say this about the pandemic, people sure were on their phones a lot. Digital sales for restaurants shot up. But once things normalized, they came back down. PAR Technology noticed. And it’s out with a new offering to get engagement rolling again. “We’ve seen sales...
The Great Merger Wave: Why Delivery Giants are Eating Each Other
Contributing editor, Peter Backman, is a long-term foodservice sector guru and founder of theDelivery.World, a platform that connects the delivery sector and makes sense of the myriad changes and challenges that affect the sector across the globe. The global food...
Independent Pizza Shops Are Succeeding With a 20th Century Formula
It’s generally accepted that the bond between Americans and affordable big-chain pizza is unshakeable. Yet 2024 has jolted that assumption, according to a recent Technomic Top 500 Report, which shows that many of the top brands, including Pizza Hut, have been seeing...
Mealogic Raises a Haul For Its B2B2C Meal Delivery Platform
Mealogic, the ready-to-eat B2B2C meal delivery platform, announced that it has secured $16 million in funding to support the company’s growth. The capital will enable Mealogic to enhance its customer experience, scale business development, and expand access to...
Donatos’ Next Slice of Innovation is an Autonomous Pizza-Making Hub
Donatos has built a reputation on quality and openness to innovation, dating back to its founding in 1963. That mindset of combining food and technology set the brand up to embrace its latest bold move: a fully autonomous pizza-making hub. Donatos partnered with...
Miso Robotics Teams With Roboworx to Support Flippy Fry Stations
Miso Robotics, a company focused on restaurant tech and kitchen automation, has partnered with Roboworx to handle installation, maintenance, and ongoing support for its systems. The partnership will primarily support Miso’s Flippy Fry Stations, which automate the...
New AI Restaurant-Tech Tools Serve as Analyst, Marketer, and Manager
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...
Next Robot Wants To Make Risotto For You
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....
Bite Appoints Two Multi-Unit Restaurant Execs to Its Board
Bite, the intelligent kiosk ordering software for fast casual and quick-serve restaurants and C-stores, today announced the appointment of two new members to its board of directors: Tracy Kim, CEO of Dig, and Kevin Fish, SVP Digital, Wingstop. As CEO of Dig, a...
Outstanding Operators
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