Atoms, the industrial automation company led by Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, has announced a $1.7 billion investment that brings CloudKitchens and several related food technology businesses into a single corporate structure. Andreessen Horowitz led the […]
Hostie, the San Francisco-based startup building an AI-powered virtual concierge for restaurants, has raised $12 million in Series A funding as operators look for new ways to manage rising volumes of calls, texts, reservations, takeout […]
Restaurant operators have always needed capital. They need it to open new locations, renovate dining rooms, upgrade kitchens, hire staff, invest in technology, expand catering, manage seasonality and get through the unpredictable swings that come […]
GoTab has acquired Fishbowl, adding one of the restaurant industry’s longest-running guest marketing and loyalty platforms to a commerce ecosystem built around POS, ordering, payments, kiosks, mobile ordering, RFID and multi-vendor venue operations. Financial terms […]
Parts Town has acquired 86 Repairs, bringing together two Chicago-area companies focused on a part of restaurant operations that often gets less attention than POS, loyalty or AI ordering, but can have an immediate impact […]
Blink has raised $17 million from Enlightened Hospitality Investments and announced a new global partnership with Shake Shack, bringing one of the restaurant industry’s most recognizable hospitality investment groups into the fast-growing market for frontline […]
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 has spent the past several years quietly assembling one of the hospitality industry’s most influential dining technology portfolios. Its proposed $700 million acquisition of TheFork from Tripadvisor represents the latest and perhaps most […]
Restaurant operators have spent the better part of a decade trying to keep up with a constantly shifting digital marketing landscape. First came websites and email marketing. Then online reviews. Then social media. Now, as […]
French restaurant technology provider Innovorder has secured $23.2 million (€20 million) in a financing round led by UL Invest, the family office of technology entrepreneur Laurent Useldinger, as the company looks to expand its footprint […]
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