Empowering employees with the tools they need to be more efficient with less time and support should be a critical priority for leaders in the restaurant industry. The Fast Company Executive Board is ...

AI-powered automation is driving efficiency across many industries, most notably in manufacturing and supply chain. And as these innovations change the shape and economics of labor and cost of goods ...

Jeff Kiesel has been President and CEO of Restaurant Technologies since 2005, a nationwide company with over 45,000 foodservice customers. At times, it feels as if restaurants require an extensive ...

South Korea’s restaurant industry has become one of the most aggressive test beds in the world for tech-driven operations, automation and digital guest engagement. A fast-growing startup called Lemong ...

Fast food used to mean one thing: cheap, quick meals without breaking the bank. That familiar drive-thru lane was a symbol of ...

Diners at Sweetgreen in Willis Tower, get ready to meet the chef of the future: a robot that makes your salad to order. The California-based chain is launching its automated Infinite Kitchen system ...

Was 2023 the year of the automated and semi-automated restaurant? Although robot-staffed restaurants are not anything new, we’re starting to see the rise of human-free or “human-lite” foodservice ...

Imagine walking into a fast food restaurant and placing an order for a burger and fries, and the Wagyu beef for your burger is immediately fresh-ground, formed into a patty, cooked to the perfect ...

Automation technology in the foodservice industry doesn’t necessarily have to look like robots flipping burgers or delivering drinks to customers. In fact, as we’ve written about in the past, the ...

When Dave Brosseau, a Canadian automation integrator, wanted to open his own restaurant specializing in the slow-smoked barbeque style found in the Southern United States, he gave a lot of thought to ...

Whenever I talk to an automation technology purveyor, they bend over backward to say this new efficient automation or ultra-efficient technology will augment staff members, not replace them. As anyone ...

A new fast-food establishment, BurgerBot, is making waves in the restaurant industry by employing robots instead of humans to prepare meals. The automated restaurant features robots that handle the ...