For a long time, robots made little economic sense for food manufacturers juggling many recipes, each with its own mix of ingredients. Chef Robotics, a San Francisco startup that sells artificial intelligence (AI)-guided robot arms to food plants, now says its robots have handled more...
Toast has added a new labor management solution to its global technology platform for restaurant and retail operators, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. The new Toast IQ Team includes a sales forecasting tool that helps operators plan staffing around anticipated demand, a Scheduling Agent that builds...
DoorDash customers can now order dinner by sending a text. The company’s new artificial intelligence (AI) agent works inside Apple’s Messages, builds the cart and handles checkout without the DoorDash app ever opening. DoorDash unveiled the text-to-order agent on Wednesday (Sept. 30) and opened a...
Uber hopes to expand its U.S. delivery business by teaming with drone company Zipline. Starting later this year, Uber Eats customers in the U.S. will get the option of having orders delivered “in minutes” through Zipline’s autonomous drone delivery, Uber said in a Monday (Aug....
June 17, 2025
The tariff-induced spending splurge may have come to an end. In May, retail sales slipped 0.9%, adding to a revised 0.1% decline in April, according to the Census Bureau. And though the big-ticket items saw a retreat, key categories of discretionary spending declined as well, though others showed gains — painting at best a mixed […]
March 05, 2025
The fast food industry is stepping up its adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, with market stalwarts including McDonald’s, Yum! Brands and Wendy’s expanding their deployment of the technology to...
February 20, 2025
Self-serve commerce has come a long way since the concept was introduced almost 40 years ago by a company called CheckRobot. Developers back then were years away from being able...
December 11, 2024
The key takeaway from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released Wednesday (Dec. 11) is that the pace of inflation pace quickened in November, as reported by the Bureau of Labor...
October 27, 2026
Affordability is a concern in every market around the world, and The Coca-Cola Company’s efforts to address this need are working, CEO Henrique Braun said Tuesday (Oct. 27) during the consumer packaged goods (CPG) firm’s third quarter earnings call. “We have seen that value continues to be something that cuts across every market and every consumer that we see all over […]
October 06, 2026
Toast has added a new labor management solution to its global technology platform for restaurant and retail operators, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. The new Toast IQ Team includes a sales...
August 17, 2026
Uber hopes to expand its U.S. delivery business by teaming with drone company Zipline. Starting later this year, Uber Eats customers in the U.S. will get the option of having...
August 05, 2026
Toast’s latest earnings suggest the restaurant technology company is entering a new phase. For years, the company focused on adding more restaurants to its platform and growing payments volume. This...
