RIF025: Pizza Robot Fails, ChatGPT Menu Testing, Remote Work Effects On Restaurants

🎬 TALK TIK TOK

Is Zukku Sushi using ChatGPT for menu development or just for quality content?

🤖 ROBOTIC REVELATION

Four Lessons From the Demise of Zume by Michael Wolf - The Spoon

Zume, the company famous mostly for raising a whole bunch of money for its pizza robot & cook-on-the-road food trucks concept, has shut down.

This comes after burning through $450 million to build a food automation and delivery tech business, the company pivoted to a completely different business in sustainable packaging.

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Valid vs Fake Customer Complaints - Out of 100 guests that complain, how many are trying to screw you over?

💰MARKET WATCH

Flipdish eyes profitability as it makes acquisition by CHARLIE TAYLOR - Business Post

Irish tech unicorn has acquired point-of-sales firm Jinoby and is rolling out what it calls a complete restaurant management system

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Bill is introduced to bring down restaurants' swipe fees By Peter Romeo - Restaurant Business Online

The Credit Card Competition Act of 2023, aims to bring down what are now restaurants’ third-highest cost by fostering competition for the two dominant processors, the networks of MasterCard and Visa.

The finance giants’ cards are used in an estimated 80% of all transactions within the U.S. that involve a credit card.

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 💤 SLEEP AT NIGHT presented by Davo

What is a restaurant accountant's job? And what is not?

📍GET REAL

How remote work has changed the restaurant business By Joe Guszkowski - Restaurant Business Online

Big city downtowns may never be the same. But smaller communities are booming, creating new opportunities for operators.

According to data from pedestrian traffic researcher MRI Springboard, foot traffic in U.S. city downtowns was down 23% during January through May compared to the same period in 2019.

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