Yum Brands Bets Big on Tech: Digital Sales Up and Voice AI Expansion Ahead
Yum Brands remains bullish on technology as a key driver of growth and operational efficiency. In its latest earnings call, the company, home to brands such as Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut, shared its ambition to become “a leading digital restaurant company”...
Bojangles Set to Deploy Voice AI in Hundreds of Drive-Thrus
Bojangles has no qualms about accelerating its investment in drive-thru voice AI. Following a successful pilot with Hi Auto, an AI drive-thru voice provider, the chain signed an agreement to roll out the tech in hundreds of its 800 locations, in both franchisee and...
CBS NorthStar and kea Partner to Digitally Transform Phone Orders
Restaurant management technology provider CBS NorthStar and Voice AI technology company kea have joined forces to digitally transform phone orders. The partnership will integrate kea’s Voice AI capabilities into CBS NorthStar’s Point-of-Sale (POS)...
ConverseNow Teams with Valyant to Accelerate Voice AI in Drive-Thrus
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...
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