Chef Robotics Raises $14.75M To Automate Food Assembly in Commercial Kitchens
We’ve been tracking Chef Robotics before it was even called that when the company’s CEO and founder, Rajat Bhageria, spoke at The Spoon’s food robotics conference ArticulATE in 2019. At […]
View ArticleWatch as This Robot Pizza Chain Operator Breaks Down the Cost Each Part of...
For small operators (and big ones as well) in the pizza business, Andrew Simmons’s posts on Linkedin have become must-read material. That’s because Simmons, who I wrote about last year […]
View ArticleRestaurant Cashier Zooms In to Work, Press Freaks Out. Better Get Ready for...
This week, a raft of news stories about an encounter with a cashier manning the checkout remotely from a distant location went viral. Dozens of shock-take articles proliferated after a […]
View ArticleWith a Summer Opening In Sight, Flyfish Club Now Letting New Members Join in...
Remember Flyfish Club, the Gary Vaynerchuck-affiliated dining club that made news when it announced it was planning to build the world’s first NFT restaurant? While you may not, the restaurant […]
View ArticleMOTO Pizza Teams Up With Cibotica for Salad Bowls, Eyes Expansion into Frozen...
This week, fast-growing restaurant chain MOTO Pizza announced it will soon add salads to the menu at select locations with the help of Cibotica, a startup specializing in salad and […]
View ArticleMOTO Pizza’s Lee Kindell Talks Drone Delivery and Humanoid Robots
Last week at SKS, we had a chance to sit down for an interview with MOTO founder Lee Kindell. Anyone who’s spent time with Lee knows he’s an enthusiastic proponent […]
View ArticleBlackbird Launches Blackbird Pay, a Blockchain-Powered Payment Network
Today Blackbird, a restaurant loyalty startup founded by former Resy and Eater founder Ben Leventhal, announced the launch of Blackbird Pay, a new restaurant payment network. Powered by the company’s […]
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Does this Robot-Powered KFC Point to the Future of Fast Food?
Earlier this year, KFC pulled its “finger lickin good” ad campaign because during a global coronavirus pandemic, touching your face, let alone putting your fingers in your mouth, is not such a great...
View ArticleezCater Lauches Relish to Reimagine Corporate Lunches
In case you hadn’t heard, the buffet as we know it is dead. That includes the catered office buffet. Now, as people head back to the office, companies need new ways to provide lunch that’s more...
View ArticleNew AI from Fujitsu Monitors How Well You Wash Your Hands
Hopefully we are all remaining vigilant about washing our hands properly: 20 seconds of scrubbing, lots of lather, getting in between fingers and under nails. Perhaps you have a favorite song you play...
View ArticleInvesting into the Future of Restaurant Tech: Navigating the “New Normal”
This is a guest post written by Brita Rosenheim, Partner at Better Food Ventures. “Normal” noun: the usual, …typical state or condition. As we have all experienced during this pandemic, we know that...
View ArticlePaytronix Puts a New Spin on Contactless Tech in Restaurant Dining Rooms
Guest management platform Paytronix Systems today announced its version of the contactless dining kit for restaurants, simply called Paytronix Contactless Dining. With it, restaurants can offer guests...
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ResQ Launches Checklists to Help Restaurants Manage COVID-19 Cleaning Guidelines
ResQ, a software platform that lets restaurants manage repair and maintenance tasks, announced today the launch of its Checklists feature. With it, the company aims to help restaurants better handle...
View ArticleSix Flags Adds Mobile Food Ordering to Its Theme Parks
There is no way you could get me to go to a theme park right now. Too many people in one place, too much complacency and too many unknowns about where we are at with this pandemic. However, theme...
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Apple App Clips Could Speed Up Adoption of Contactless Payments
At its developers conference today, Apple announced the launch of App Clips for iOS, which is designed to give users some functionality of a mobile app, without downloading the entire thing. Apple’s...
View ArticleRun a Restaurant From Your Phone, Thanks to This Latin American Tech Startup
Click through any restaurant industry publication in these pandemic-stricken days and you’ll likely assume that to run an off-premises restaurant, you need to load up on as much tech as you can. But...
View ArticleDigital Meal Voucher Company Swile Raised $78.7M to Expand Internationally
French startup Swile, previously known as Lunchr, announced today it has raised a $78.7 million (€70 million) Series C round, according to TechCrunch. The round was led by Index Ventures, with...
View ArticleMoe’s Southwest Grill Opens Kiosk-Only Restaurant
Atlanta, GA-headquarterd Moe’s Southwest Grill is best known for its fast-casual take on Mexican food. It could also soon be known for the tech it uses to get said Mexican food to customers in a more...
View ArticleSingapore’s TiffinLabs Will Launch Its Tech-Driven Virtual Restaurant Network...
Singapore-based food tech company TiffinLabs announced this week it has acquired access to kitchen space in 1,000 locations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia to create a global network of virtual...
View ArticleU.K. Regulators Grant Provisional Clearance to Amazon’s Highly Scrutinized...
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared Amazon’s 16 percent investment in Deliveroo on the basis that the deal would not likely “damage competition in either...
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