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Check out our thoughts and views on the world of restaurants, technology, and off-premise food in our round-up of some of last week's hot news stories.

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The Wall St Journal reported this week some restaurants may be switching off 3rd parties. What’s your take? 

7-Eleven are piloting delivery via robotics-powered vehicles. What’s happening here?

Two thirds of Gen Z believe current food systems are ‘destroying the planet’ according to a recent EU survey. What do you think this means for us all?
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Shake Shack are trying premium menu’s - what’s this all about?

Kitchen United Debuts Third NYC Location - Why is this significant?

Check out our thoughts and views on the world of restaurants, technology, and off-premise food in our round-up of some of last week's hot news stories.

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Goldbelly - the artisanal food marketplace is launching a TV channel

Fat Brand continues its acquisition spree

Hubspot released a 68 page Social Media Trends report for 2022. In it touches on how TikTok is a growing force

Jack in the Box Invests in Robotics to Curb Labor Issues. Limited operating hours due to staffing hurt comps by 3 percent

Disney wrapping Kiwibots in advertising partnership

Check out our thoughts and views on the world of restaurants, technology, and off-premise food in our round-up of some of last week's hot news stories.

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Panera’s new next generation cafe’s are 20% smaller on the inside

Epic Kitchens - a hybrid between a ghost kitchen and fast casual

Sorting out tips got easier for many of Toast’s customers through a new feature called Tip Manager announced this week

Startup Daily Harvest reaches unicorn status with $1.1 billion valuation

Why the biggest restaurant company in the world needs Doordash and how their white label deal matters for everyone? 

Today's episode is live from The Bellagio - Las Vegas!

We attended the Food On Demand Conference 2021 - an annual event where we discuss the trends in restaurant industry’s premier off-premises and delivery aspect. The event was full of great people, insights and another showing of plethora of technology solutions helping restaurant owners master off-premise.

#FODC2021 is the largest and most concentrated gathering of experts in the foodservice market.

Take a look at #FODC2021.

Check out our thoughts and views on the world of restaurants, technology, and off-premise food in our round-up of some of last week's hot news stories.

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Coca-Cola Research Reveals What Guests Want Post-COVID:

Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raises $600M at reported $8.6B valuation:

Ghost Kitchens and Virtual Brands: What Do Customers Think?:

McDonald's powers up 'Friendsgaming' livestream with FaZe Clan to unite gamers:

Amazon Fresh stores gaining a 'core group' of shoppers, traffic data shows:

Check out our thoughts and views on the world of restaurants, technology, and off-premise food in our round-up of some of last week's hot news stories.
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Uber and Carre Four: https://reut.rs/3btXVHC

Sweetgreen's S1: https://bit.ly/3mt0b8p

Virtual Dining concepts raises $20m: https://bit.ly/3br99N6

Reef in hot water in NYC: https://bit.ly/2XZIXpZ

Technomic’s 2022 predictions: https://bit.ly/

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Outdoor Dining Allowances   

Wearables savings back at Pepsi  

Olo buys Wisely.

Buffalo Wild Wings is testing a wing-making robot   

How are QSRs designing for off-premise? 

Wendy’s get into AI

Doordash sponsored listings 

QR code cookbooks

Grocery steers loyalty away from Instacart

Uber acquires Drizly

Check out our thoughts and views on the world of restaurants, technology, and off-premise food in our round-up of some of last week's hot news stories.

Two NY acquisitions caught our eye this week.

Kitchen United with Zuul: https://bit.ly/3mCO3kk 

Reef with Bond: https://bit.ly/2YJZGxH

Our upcoming Amazon book launch: https://lnkd.in/gtw33fx5 

All Day Kitchens raised $65m in funding: https://bit.ly/3mFVNSv 

Raising Cane’s corporate staff working in restaurants:

https://bit.ly/3BILLGJ 

QSR featured the Chipotlane:

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/fast-casual/inside-rise-game-changing-chipotlane 

AB626 recently passed in California and what that mean for home cooks in California?

Independents struggling more than chains Amazon Prime & Deliveroo team up for free deliveries

800 degrees have been in the news teaming up with Reef in a 500 unit expansion

Eye-tracking your online menu usage