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Metafoodx Launches Mobile App for Real-Time Restaurant Kitchen Intelligence

Metafoodx, an AI-powered kitchen intelligence platform, has launch its iOS app, giving kitchen managers and chefs real-time access to their operation’s data from anywhere in the venue. Until now, checking consumption trends, overproduction or scan [...]
Viewpoints

What the Summer of Food Recalls Revealed About Restaurant Data Gaps

Lettuce. Jalapenos. Eggs. Blueberries. Summer 2026 was the summer of food recalls, with multiple incidents impacting restaurants and other food businesses nationwide. While recalls don’t typically originate at the restaurant level, recent incidents involved restaurants—including [...]
Spotlight Interviews

Spotlight Interview: Michael Chen, Co-Founder and President of Pokeworks

As restaurant brands adopt more technology, the challenge is turning fragmented data into useful guidance without creating more work for franchisees. Michael Chen, co-founder and president of Pokeworks, brings the combined perspective of a restaurant [...]
Success Story

The Big Greek Café Taps Deliverect and Thanx to Power Digital Ordering and Loyalty Across U.S. Locations

The Big Greek Café, the Maryland-based brand known for its authentic, casual Greek dining rooted in family and community values, announced today a partnership with Deliverect and Thanx to modernize its digital ordering and loyalty [...]
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How Tip Management Software Brings Transparency to Gratuity Pay in Restaurants

Gratuity pay affects household budgets, staff morale, and perceptions of fairness on any restaurant floor. Servers, bartenders, hosts, and bussers should be able to see how a guest’s payment moves from the check into an [...]

California Pizza Kitchen Plans Up to 1,000 Automated Kiosks as Restaurant Brands Push Beyond Traditional Locations

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California Pizza Kitchen is preparing to make one of the restaurant industry’s largest bets yet on automated foodservice, with plans to deploy as many as 1,000 branded kiosks across the United States over the next [...]
McDonald’s Unifies Data from Nearly 220 Million Loyalty Users as Global AI Strategy Takes Shape

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Chili’s Invests in 23,000 iPads and 9,000 Kitchen Screens as It Takes a Selective Approach to AI

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Owner Raises $240 Million to Expand Its AI-Powered Technology and Marketing Platform for Restaurants

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Owner has raised $240 million in a Series D financing that values the restaurant technology company at $2.3 billion, giving it substantially more capital to pursue an ambitious goal: becoming the technology and marketing platform [...]
Palona AI Expands Beyond Voice Ordering with New Restaurant Operations Platform and $20 Million in Funding

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MarginEdge Raises $80 Million as Competition for the AI-Powered Restaurant Back Office Intensifies

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Why Restaurant QR Menus Have an Execution Problem, Not a Concept Problem

Watch a four top get seated on a Friday at full covers. Someone scans the code on the table tent, waits, turns the phone sideways, pinches to zoom, drags the page around with one finger to find the appetizers, then gives up and asks the server what the specials are. The table has a menu. The restaurant has an execution problem it is reading as guests disliking QR codes. This publication argued last month that Starbucks was right to retire a computer vision inventory system that miscounted items badly enough that staff recounted by hand, because a tool people have to verify has added a step rather than removed one. Apply that test at the table. If the guest scans the code and then asks the server the question the menu was supposed to answer, the menu added a step instead of removing one. The concept is not the problem. [...]

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Metafoodx Launches Mobile App for Real-Time Restaurant Kitchen Intelligence

What the Summer of Food Recalls Revealed About Restaurant Data Gaps

Spotlight Interview: Michael Chen, Co-Founder and President of Pokeworks

The Big Greek Café Taps Deliverect and Thanx to Power Digital Ordering and Loyalty Across U.S. Locations

How Tip Management Software Brings Transparency to Gratuity Pay in Restaurants

Restaurant Technology News

California Pizza Kitchen Plans Up to 1,000 Automated Kiosks as Restaurant Brands Push Beyond Traditional Locations

Solution Provider News

Owner Raises $240 Million to Expand Its AI-Powered Technology and Marketing Platform for Restaurants

Why Restaurant QR Menus Have an Execution Problem, Not a Concept Problem

Metafoodx Launches Mobile App for Real-Time Restaurant Kitchen Intelligence

What the Summer of Food Recalls Revealed About Restaurant Data Gaps

Spotlight Interview: Michael Chen, Co-Founder and President of Pokeworks

The Big Greek Café Taps Deliverect and Thanx to Power Digital Ordering and Loyalty Across U.S. Locations

How Tip Management Software Brings Transparency to Gratuity Pay in Restaurants

Research: More Than Half of QSR Workers Who Found Onboarding Inefficient Exited Before Starting Work

How Independent Restaurant Owners Can Master the Hidden Math That Determines Profitability

PAR Technology Launches Guest360 to Bring Unified Guest Understanding to Every Restaurant Transaction

Why First-Party Digital Ordering Is Becoming a Strategic Priority for Restaurants

Owner Raises $240 Million to Expand Its AI-Powered Technology and Marketing Platform for Restaurants

Market Research

Research: More Than Half of QSR Workers Who Found Onboarding Inefficient Exited Before Starting Work

Viewpoints

What the Summer of Food Recalls Revealed About Restaurant Data Gaps

Spotlight Interview

Spotlight Interview: Michael Chen, Co-Founder and President of Pokeworks