Category: Interfaces
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With digital restaurant orders set to triple by 2020, it’s becoming more crucial than ever for restaurants to find ways to manage the flow of different sales channels, from third-party sources to in-house mobile apps. And it’s not just delivery. Takeout also accounts for part of the digital orders placed by 60 percent of consumers…
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Uber is making its Uber Eats service available from the main ride-share app in certain markets, with the hopes that cross-promoting its services could improve customer acquisition and retention for the company. TechCrunch reports that a web view version of Uber Eats is now embedded into the company’s ride-share app, which means users hailing a…
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One of my favorite things about tech is that it starts a lot of debate. Even within our small team here at The Spoon, we’re constantly on different pages about what’s groundbreaking and what’s just hype, whether something’s progressive or just invasive, how to spell the phrase “food tech.”
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Yesterday at its I/O conference, Google announced new features to Google Lens, its image-recognition app for Android, and they’re all about improving the restaurant experience for customers. Google Lens uses machine learning, computer vision, and a whole lot of data to interact with the world around you and answer your questions. For example, when Lens…
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E-commerce giant Alibaba announced today at the Shanghai Auto Show it is developing apps for connected cars that will allow drivers to find restaurants, get “in line” for a table, and even order food. As TechCrunch reports, users will also eventually be able to “complete a plethora of other tasks” with the same controls using…
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Domino’s announced this morning it will launch its Anyware digital-ordering platform in cars in 2019. To do so, the pizza chain-turned-tech trailblazer has teamed up with Xevo, whose in-vehicle commerce technology is currently in about 25 million cars. This is actually not the first time the Anyware platform has made its way into a car.…
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The average consumer nowadays will probably use multiple different apps to figure out where to eat on any given night: discovery, recommendations, booking a reservation or ordering food for delivery. As the folks at Hypepotamus recently noted, a new company, MealMe, wants to simplify the food lover’s food journey by bringing its many pieces into…
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Kitchen tech company, Drop, announced today that it will be launching its first foray into voice control of kitchen appliances via its new Siri integration. Voice control is a particularly interesting interface in the kitchen, where sticky fingers and loads of wet ingredients aren’t great for touching devices like iPads and smart screens. Being able…
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Restaurant tech company Presto dropped a couple new products today for front-of-house operations in the restaurant: Presto Wearables and Presto A.I. These join Presto’s tabletop terminal, on which guests can order, pay, report feedback, and contact the manager if needs be. According to a press release, Presto Wearables are smartwatch-like devices that notify the servers…
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It being the time of year when most of us set some health-related goals, Lifesum picked an apt time to unveil its latest offering. Yesterday, the Swedish company officially unveiled a Google Assistant version of its nutrition app, which allows users to track meals, weight, and water intake using their voice instead of a phone or…
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Fast-casual chain MAC’D announced yesterday it has partnered with eatsa to bring the latter’s tech platform into its restaurants. Doing so will automate much of the restaurant experience for MAC’D customers, who can build their own mac-n-cheese dishes via kiosk and pick them up in designated cubbies. Back when it was still an actual restaurant…
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When Google debuted Duplex this past summer, the virtual assistant made headlines because of the eerily natural way in which the artificial intelligence (AI) interacted with humans. The company showed Duplex purportedly making a restaurant reservation that was complete with saying “ummms” and “ahhhs” as it was “thinking.” Duplex is now being rolled out into…
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