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3 days ago

Chowbus Raises $81 Million to Expand Its AI-Powered Platform for Independent Restaurants | Chowbus, a Chicago-based restaurant technology company focused on serving culturally rooted independent restaurants, has raised $81 million in new funding as it seeks to expand beyond point-of-sale software and position itself as a broader operating [...]

#Chowbus Raises $81 Million to Expand Its #AI Platform for Independent #Restaurants | #RestTechNews zurl.co/IbrlG

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1 week ago

Nory Expands Into U.S. as Restaurants Seek AI Tools to Manage Rising Costs | As U.S. restaurant operators continue to navigate persistent labor inflation, volatile food costs, and ongoing staffing challenges, technology providers are sharpening their focus on tools that promise measurable operational gains. One of the latest companies [...]

#Nory Expands Into US as #Restaurants Seek #AI Tools to Manage Rising Costs | #RestTechNews zurl.co/szSpN

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1 week ago

Burger King Tests AI Headsets to Support Restaurant Operations and Training | Burger King is testing AI-powered employee headsets in approximately 500 U.S. restaurants, part of a broader effort by parent company Restaurant Brands International (RBI) to modernize operations and improve frontline support. The system uses an [...]

#BurgerKing Tests #AI Headsets to Support #Restaurant #Ops and Training | #RestTechNews
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3 weeks ago

Research: 69% of Restaurants Are Adopting AI While 81% Increase Digital Marketing Investment | As inflation and economic uncertainty continue to reshape consumer behavior, restaurants are increasingly turning to technology to protect margins, strengthen guest relationships, and drive repeat visits. New nationwide research from Popmenu, based on surveys of [...]

Research: 69% of #Restaurants Are Adopting #AI While 81% Increase #Digital #Marketing Spend |
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3 weeks ago

Why Unified Customer Intelligence Will Define Restaurant Growth in the AI Era | For more than a decade, restaurant technology strategies have centered on building a “single view of the guest.” Operators invested heavily in POS integrations, loyalty platforms, CRM platforms, CDPs, and marketing automation tools, all with [...]

Why Unified #Customer #Intelligence Will Define #Restaurant Growth in the #AI Era | #RestTechNews
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3 weeks ago

#WhiteCastle Deploys #AI Perimeter Security #Tech to Reduce Crime and Improve Safety | #RestTechNews
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1 month ago

Preopening Restaurant Leads Introduces Free Trial — No Credit Card Required | Preopening Restaurants Resource has announced that vendors can now sign up for a free trial to evaluate its preopening restaurant intelligence at no cost. The free trial includes a customized sample report featuring the 10 [...]

#Preopening #RestaurantLeads Introduces Free Trial — No Credit Card Required | #RestTechNews zurl.co/rC8lY

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1 month ago

Yum! Brands Makes Restaurant Tech Central to Its 2026 Growth Strategy | Yum! Brands’ Q4 2025 earnings call this week was less a traditional brand performance recap and more a progress update on a strategy that is becoming increasingly explicit. As one of the world’s largest restaurant [...]

#Yum! Makes #Restaurant #Tech Central to Its 2026 Growth Strategy | #RestTechNews zurl.co/2AZKN

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1 month ago

Hospitality Tech360 2026 to Feature Restaurant Leaders from Pizza Pilgrims, Honest Burgers, PizzaExpress and More | Hospitality Tech360, a new event for the hospitality sector, has unveiled its 2026 seminar program, bringing together hospitality operators, technology specialists and senior leaders to explore how digital tools, data and human insight are shaping [...]

#Hospitality #Tech360 2026 to Feature #Restaurant Leaders from Pizza Pilgrims, Honest Burgers, PizzaExpress and More | #RestTechNews zurl.co/HUtni

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1 month ago

Wireless Headset Maker Unveils Future-Ready Cloud Interface for Quick Service Restaurant Drive-Thru Operations | A Dallas tech firm is introducing a new cloud-based audio interface for automated order taking (AOT) which will give U.S. quick service restaurant (QSR) providers a practical pathway to future cloud-enabled drive-thru operations. Quail Digital, [...]

Wireless Headset Maker Unveils Future-Ready Cloud Interface for #QSR #DriveThru | #RestTechNews zurl.co/07i9B

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Charlie Jeffers

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1 month ago

Why Restaurant Technology Is Now the Only Reliable Answer to Hybrid Work Demand Volatility | Remote and hybrid work didn’t just change where people work. It changed when — and whether — they eat out. And for restaurant brands built around five-day downtown foot traffic, that behavioral shift is quietly [...]

Why #Restaurant #Tech Is Now the Only Reliable Answer to Hybrid Work Demand Volatility | #RestTechNews zurl.co/fZTtZ

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1 month ago

How Smart Restaurant Kitchens Are Replacing “Looks Clean” With Verifiable Sanitation Data | In busy professional kitchens today, there’s this kind of hidden pressure that nobody really notices much during a crazy dinner rush. It gets lost in all the chaos. The story shows up in those beat [...]

How Smart #Restaurant Kitchens Are Replacing “Looks Clean” With Verifiable Sanitation #Data | #RestTechNews zurl.co/C0Zlb

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Charlie Jeffers

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2 months ago

#Sauce Launches #Apple Business Connect Integration to Boost #Restaurant Discovery Across Apple Apps | #RestTechNews zurl.co/lgAEe

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2 months ago

#PapaJohns Modernizes #Restaurant Ops w Unified #POS and Ops Platform Across 3,200 U.S. Locations | #RestTechNews zurl.co/gKJc1

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2 months ago

Presto Raises $10 Million to Scale Voice AI Deployments as Restaurant Drive-Thru Automation Enters Its “Prove It” Era | After a few turbulent years for restaurant technology dealmaking, Presto’s newly announced $10 million financing round is a useful signal of where the market is headed in 2026: fewer “science projects,” more operator-ready deployments, and [...]

#Presto Raises $10 Million to Scale Voice #AI Deployments as #Restaurant #DriveThru Automation Enters Its “Prove It” Era | #RestTechNews zurl.co/Gi4kp

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Charlie Jeffers

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2 months ago

How Restaurant Tech M&A Is Regaining Momentum — and What It Means for 2026 | After several years of disruption and recalibration following COVID, the restaurant technology M&A market is beginning to move with greater clarity and purpose. While 2025 did not represent a full return to peak deal activity, [...]

How #Restaurant #Tech M&A Is Regaining Momentum — and What It Means for 2026 | #RestTechNews zurl.co/xzKUQ

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Charlie Jeffers

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2 months ago

What Google’s New Merchant Extortion Tool Means for Restaurant Operators | There’s bad publicity, and then there’s what’s happening right now to restaurants on Google Maps: a wave of fake one-star reviews that goes beyond unfair feedback and straight into extortion territory. Restaurant operators have always [...]

What #Google’s New Merchant Extortion Tool Means for #Restaurant #Operators | #RestTechNews zurl.co/nsigL

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2 months ago

What #Restaurant Operators Actually Want From #Delivery #Tech in 2026 | #RestTechNews zurl.co/ZSqwa

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3 months ago

Toast Signals Next Phase of Restaurant Technology Competition With Expanded Focus on AI-Driven Operations | In recent months, Toast has been quietly but deliberately reshaping how it positions its platform in the increasingly competitive restaurant technology market. While the company did not announce a single headline-grabbing product launch, a series [...]

#Toast Signals Next Phase of #Restaurant #Tech Competition w Expanded Focus on #AI #Ops | #RestTechNews zurl.co/o9VsM

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Charlie Jeffers

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3 months ago

Deliverect Launches AI Agent Library to Automate Restaurant Operations and Optimize Marketing Performance | Deliverect, the global food-tech SaaS company transforming restaurant and retail operations, today announced the launch of its AI Agent Library, the first library of plug-and-play artificial intelligence agents designed specifically for the restaurant industry. Developed [...]

#Deliverect Launches #AI Library to Automate #Restaurant Ops and Optimize #Marketing | #RestTechNews zurl.co/rMBsZ

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3 months ago

#DavesHotChicken Accelerates #AI and Automation Strategy as Growth Surges Past 300 Locations | #RestTechNews zurl.co/qkX67

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4 months ago

How Predictive Analytics Are Guiding Restaurant Closures and Remodel Decisions | Outback Steakhouse’s decision to close 21 U.S. restaurants and allow another 22 leases to lapse over the next four years isn’t just a real estate move. It reflects a deeper operational recalibration built on data, [...]

How Predictive #Analytics Are Guiding #Restaurant #Closures and Remodel Decisions | #RestTechNews zurl.co/uyYxK

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4 months ago

How Humanoid AI Agents Are Redefining Hospitality in a Competitive Market | Across the global hospitality landscape, a new generation of humanoid AI agents is moving from concept to reality. As hotels face fierce competition and rising guest expectations in 2025, these intelligent machines are moving past [...]

How Humanoid #AI Agents Are Redefining #Hospitality in a Competitive #Market | #RestTechNews zurl.co/uNNEC

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Charlie Jeffers

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4 months ago

Toast Launches Conversational AI Assistant to Help Restaurant Operators Work Faster and Smarter | Toast has launched a major expansion of the Toast IQ intelligence ecosystem with a conversational AI assistant for restaurants and food and beverage retailers. With access to real-time and historical data across approximately 148,000 customer [...]

#Toast Launches Conversational #AI Assistant to Help #Restaurant Ops #Work Faster and Smarter | #RestTechNews zurl.co/iBkHo

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4 months ago

Starship Technologies Boosts Restaurant Delivery Automation with $50 Million to Expand Robot Fleet Across the U.S. | Starship Technologies is punching a larger bet on autonomous delivery with its announcement of a $50 million funding round aimed at accelerating its growth in the U.S. market. The company plans to expand its robot [...]

#StarshipTechnologies Boosts #Restaurant #Delivery Automation with $50 Million to Expand Robot Fleet Across the U.S. | #RestTechNews zurl.co/Wdp4X

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5 months ago

TFS Burger Works Deploys Aniai’s Alpha Grill, Slashing Cook Times by 70% and Labor Costs Alongside It | Three months after installing Aniai’s Alpha Grill, TFS Burger Works is seeing game-changing results in speed, consistency, and kitchen efficiency. The West Haverstraw-based burger concept has already cooked more than 5,000 burgers and 500+ grilled chicken [...]

#TFSBurger Works Deploys #Aniai’s #AlphaGrill, Slashing Cook Times by 70% and Labor Costs Alongside It | #RestTecHNews zurl.co/sJFTJ

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Charlie Jeffers

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5 months ago

Spotlight Interview: Li-ran Navon, CEO and Founder of Sauce | In the delivery-first era, independent restaurants have faced an uphill battle to compete with major brands and third-party marketplaces that dominate customer relationships and margins. That imbalance has sparked a new wave of restaurant technology [...]

Spotlight Interview: #Li-ranNavon #CEO and Founder of #Sauce | #RestTechNews zurl.co/Xhdpc

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5 months ago

Chipotle Founder’s New Restaurant Chain Aims to Harness the Power of Data Analytics to Redefine Kitchen Efficiency | Steve Ells made his name by co-founding Chipotle Mexican Grill in 1993, building it into a global leader in fast-casual dining known for serving high-quality, customizable food with transparency and integrity. He served as CEO [...]

#Chipotle Founder’s New #Restaurant Chain Aims to Harness the Power of #Data Analytics to Redefine Kitchen Efficiency | #RestTechNews zurl.co/PKKPx

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5 months ago

Boom Eyes Global Expansion with $12.7 Million Raise to Advance Autonomous Operations for Hotels and Short-Term Rentals | Boom, positioning itself as the world’s first AI-powered property management system (AiPMS), has closed a $12.7 million funding round led by Avenue Growth Partners. The new capital will fuel expansion into additional markets, hiring across [...]

#Boom Eyes Expansion with $12.7 Million Raise to Advance Autonomous Operations for #Hotels and Short Term Rentals | #RestTechNews zurl.co/mRIfc

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5 months ago

Red Lobster and Captain D’s Dive Into Voice AI as Restaurants Race to Automate Orders | Two seafood chains are taking the plunge into artificial intelligence. Red Lobster and Captain D’s each announced this week that they plan to use AI to take orders, Red Lobster over the phone and Captain [...]

#RedLobster and #CaptainDs Dive Into Voice #AI as #Restaurants Race to Automate Orders | #RestTechNews zurl.co/AHdV4

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