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 […]
As restaurant operators continue searching for ways to drive repeat visits, improve marketing attribution, and reduce their dependence on third-party platforms, a growing number of technology companies are racing to position themselves as the central […]
Restaurant operators have more data than ever before. What they often lack is a practical way to use it in the moments that matter most. That gap is at the center of a new platform […]
The newly expanded partnership between Block and Uber Technologies reflects a deeper shift underway in restaurant technology, one that is steadily moving the industry away from fragmented systems and toward tightly integrated, ecosystem-driven platforms. Announced this week, […]
Labor has become one of the most complex and least predictable variables in restaurant operations. Between fluctuating demand, staffing shortages, rising wages, and increasingly strict labor regulations, workforce management is no longer just an administrative […]
Google is taking a step toward redefining the role of search by introducing what it describes as “agentic capabilities” within AI Mode, beginning with restaurant reservations in the UK. The move, which the company announced […]
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