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Bevi Reimagines Beverage Service Through Smart Dispensing, Customization and Connected Operations

For decades, beverage service in restaurants and foodservice environments has followed a familiar model. Operators purchase bottled water, canned beverages and packaged drinks, store inventory, replenish coolers, manage deliveries and absorb the costs associated with [...]
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Miso Robotics Acquires Zume Pizza Technology and IP to Expand Restaurant Automation Platform

Miso Robotics, the Pasadena, California-based company behind the Flippy automated fry station, has acquired the technology and intellectual property of Zume Pizza, one of the most heavily funded and closely watched food robotics startups of [...]
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Apex Helps Restaurants Automate Order Pickup, Guest Handoff and Off-Premise Fulfillment

Over the past decade, restaurants have invested heavily in technologies designed to improve digital ordering, mobile commerce, guest engagement and delivery operations. Online ordering platforms, mobile apps, loyalty programs and third-party delivery marketplaces have fundamentally [...]
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Square Unifies Restaurant Operations, Commerce and Business Intelligence on a Single Platform

For much of its history, Square was primarily associated with payment acceptance. The company’s compact card readers helped democratize electronic payments for millions of small businesses and changed how merchants thought about commerce technology. Today, [...]
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Paytronix Turns Guest Data Into Loyalty, Personalized Engagement and Restaurant Revenue Growth

For years, restaurant loyalty programs were largely transactional. Guests earned points, accumulated rewards and redeemed offers. While those programs helped drive repeat visits, they often provided only a limited view of customer behavior and offered [...]

McDonald’s Turns to Connected Operations, AI and Automation to Drive Its Next Phase of Innovation

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McDonald’s has spent decades refining restaurant operations, but its newly unveiled McDonald’s Next strategy signals that the company increasingly views technology as the foundation for its next phase of growth. Announced this week at the [...]
White Castle Puts Its Restaurant in a Box with 1,000 Automated Kiosks

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Dairy Queen Extends AI Drive-Thru Testing Across Franchise Locations

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Miso Robotics Acquires Zume Pizza Technology and IP to Expand Restaurant Automation Platform

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Miso Robotics, the Pasadena, California-based company behind the Flippy automated fry station, has acquired the technology and intellectual property of Zume Pizza, one of the most heavily funded and closely watched food robotics startups of [...]
American Express Expands Restaurant Technology Ambitions with $700 Million TheFork Acquisition

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Bestie Bite Raises $1.75 Million to Bring AI-Powered Restaurant Discovery and Marketing to the U.S. Market

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How to Tell If Your Restaurant AI Is Real

The restaurant industry has an AI-washing problem. Vendors are slapping “AI-powered” onto tools that haven’t materially changed in years, and the hype cycle is producing more confusion than value. Most early AI pilots across industries have failed to deliver measurable ROI, and restaurants are no exception. The skeptics aren’t wrong. But here’s where I part ways with the doom narrative: the answer isn’t to reject AI. It’s to get better at telling the real thing from the fake. And to do that, you have to start with the problem AI is supposed to solve in the first place. Restaurants Don’t Die from One Big Thing. They Die from a Thousand Papercuts. A restaurant doesn’t collapse because of a single catastrophic event. It bleeds out slowly. A few hundred dollars in labor drift on Tuesday. A void pattern nobody catches on Thursday. An 86’d item running three days that silently kills [...]

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Bevi Reimagines Beverage Service Through Smart Dispensing, Customization and Connected Operations

Miso Robotics Acquires Zume Pizza Technology and IP to Expand Restaurant Automation Platform

Apex Helps Restaurants Automate Order Pickup, Guest Handoff and Off-Premise Fulfillment

Square Unifies Restaurant Operations, Commerce and Business Intelligence on a Single Platform

Paytronix Turns Guest Data Into Loyalty, Personalized Engagement and Restaurant Revenue Growth

Restaurant Technology News

McDonald’s Turns to Connected Operations, AI and Automation to Drive Its Next Phase of Innovation

Solution Provider News

Miso Robotics Acquires Zume Pizza Technology and IP to Expand Restaurant Automation Platform

How to Tell If Your Restaurant AI Is Real

Bevi Reimagines Beverage Service Through Smart Dispensing, Customization and Connected Operations

Miso Robotics Acquires Zume Pizza Technology and IP to Expand Restaurant Automation Platform

Apex Helps Restaurants Automate Order Pickup, Guest Handoff and Off-Premise Fulfillment

Square Unifies Restaurant Operations, Commerce and Business Intelligence on a Single Platform

Paytronix Turns Guest Data Into Loyalty, Personalized Engagement and Restaurant Revenue Growth

What the 2026 National Restaurant Association Show Revealed About the Future of Restaurant Technology

The Howard Company Connects Drive-Thru Technology, Digital Signage and Restaurant Brand Experiences

Unox Helps Restaurants Improve Consistency, Efficiency and Performance Through Intelligent Cooking Systems

Atosa Brings Performance, Reliability and Value to Modern Restaurant Kitchens

Hakka Bros Helps Restaurants Do More with Leaner Teams, Smarter Workflows and Greater Production Efficiency

Market Research

Lavu Publishes Restaurant POS AI Capabilities Report, Finding Most Platforms Lack Cross-System Intelligence

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What the 2026 National Restaurant Association Show Revealed About the Future of Restaurant Technology

Spotlight Interview

Spotlight Interview: Cassie Pinckney, Vice President of Marketing for Urban Egg