Category: Restaurant Tech
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This month, Pizza Hut debuted a fully automated robot-powered restaurant. The ‘restaurant-in-a-box’ is based on technology from Hyper-Robotics, an Israel-based food robotics startup that makes containerized restaurants. The restaurant is operating out of the parking lot of Drorim Mall, a shopping mall located in the central Israel city of Bnei Dror. The restaurant is fully…
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This week I spoke with Alex Canter, the CEO and a co-founder of virtual restaurant company Nextbite, to hear his perspective on what 2022 holds for virtual kitchens and restaurants. Nextbite, based in Denver, Colorado, uses a host kitchen model where it licenses a portfolio of delivery-only restaurant brands to restaurants with excess kitchen capacity.…
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It’s food tech prediction week at The Spoon! Each day we’ll publish five predictions for a specific area of the food tech universe, starting with restaurant tech. The Ghost Kitchen Market Will See Growth in Hosted Models, Consolidation in Some Other Areas The ghost kitchen and virtual restaurant markets were white-hot in 2021, with lots…
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While we already knew some of the basic details about Gary Vaynerchuk and VCR Group’s NFT restaurant concept, we’ve learned more in the last week about how the whole thing will work. Here’s some of what we’ve learned and my quick thoughts: Token as Membership. At a high level, the Flyfish Club and its NFT…
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This week restaurant chain Checkers & Rally’s announced a deal with Presto, a maker of restaurant technology, in which the drive-thru focused chain will roll out Presto’s AI-powered voice assistant technology chain-wide by the end of the year. The announcement comes after early trials showed a 98% order accuracy for the voice assistant technology. And…
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While the fast growth of the ghost kitchen industry is exciting, it has some downsides. The industry’s rapid expansion has often meant low-quality food, a lack of transparency, and, even health code violations. Kristen Barnett wants to change all that with her newest venture, Hungry House. Barnett, who was formerly with Zuul, wants to be…
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Welcome to our new podcast, The Restaurant Tech Variety Hour. Ok, so it’s really just the same old Spoon podcast. But for now, we’ll change the name because this week we’re all about restaurant tech. I’m joined by Bbot CEO Steve Simoni to catch up on everything that’s going on in the restaurant technology universe,…
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Today Marc Lore, the ex-CEO of Walmart.com and founder of Jet.com, formally announced the launch of Wonder, a ghost kitchen-driven delivery brand powered by high-profile chef recipes and cook-en-route delivery vans. The company currently is delivering food to four cities in Union County in northern New Jersey and has plans to expand to New York…
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Here’s what we know: On Monday, Jack Dorsey announced he’s stepping down immediately from the top job at Twitter. On Wednesday, his payments company Square said it would change its name to Block and would, among other things, double down on cryptocurrency, blockchain, and building a decentralized payment system. I haven’t checked the news today,…
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It’s clear that the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way restaurants do business. As a purveyor of online marketing and commerce solutions for the hospitality industry, New York-based company BentoBox recently decided to quantify some of those changes. BentoBox saw a jump in business during the pandemic, with more restaurants seeking the online tools that the…
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Maybe it was a slow news week. Perhaps it was the sight of pancakes hitching a ride on a robot at America’s late-night diner. Whatever the reason, it seemed like every news organization wrote the same story about a TikTok video of server-robot showing up to dish out breakfast at a Denny’s. They all had…
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It seems a day doesn’t go by nowadays without a new ghost kitchen concept popping up. While all that growth can be exciting, the ghost kitchen land grab has its downsides, at least according to Kristen Barnett. The former COO of ghost kitchen startup Zuul told me today in a video call that the industry’s…
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