With Off-Prem in Mind, Spyce Relaunches Concept Hospitality Tech — By Anna Wolfe, Senior Editor – Restaurants – 11/10/2020 Excerpt: Spyce, a robotic kitchen that came on the scene in 2018, is reopening today in Boston. The concept has been redesigned with off-premises in mind. “… We’ve reinvented the way we cook and how customers can truly personalize their meals.… Read More »
See website — An autonomous pizza baking machine that cooks a thin crust brick-oven style 10″ pizza in 3 minutes for around $10 reducing exposure and risk with touchless baking and tap and swipe payment! The coolness factor is off the charts! Fast kitchen goes instant kitchen with new pizza automation machine. These solutions pop up periodically. This… Read More »
Temperature Taking Kiosks Having digital signage kiosk to take temperature has seen a lot of interest recently. It could be one strategy for re-opening business and assuring customers of safety. Bob Iger, CEO of Walt Disney Co., is pondering what such a future would look like. Perhaps, he suggests, it would look like testing the temperatures of all… Read More »
From Protocol.com April 2020 Excerpt: The coronavirus pandemic has pushed the world into uncharted territory — and in some industries, that’s leading to an automation boom. More than 6.6 million people filed for unemployment in the U.S. last week. Experts estimate 10 million are out of work. Already, automation is filling some of the gaps. But when the dust settles, will robots… Read More »
From The Verge March 2020 Amazon will start selling the technology behind its cashierless Amazon Go stores to other retailers, according to Reuters. Amazon reportedly has “several” retailers already signed up to use the system, which is being marketed as Just Walk Out technology by Amazon. Amazon’s website for the service invites other retailers to make inquiries. Amazon’s… Read More »
Reported on Vital Vegas Feb 20202 MGM Resorts testing automated beverage dispenser in casino. It appears to be situated in service area so it would actually be operated by employees. The bartender remains. It’ll be awhile before conversational AI (and customer charge method) are developed. While everyone involved with the roll-out of drink dispensing machines have been… Read More »
Effects of Automation on American Workers Nice article on GQ Magazine Feb 2020 Excerpt: When McDonald’s began experimenting with automated kiosks for customers to place their orders, the company’s former CEO Ed Rensi blamed it on movements to raise the minimum wage. In a 2016 post for Forbes, he crowed, “I told you so. In 2013, when the Fight for… Read More »
https://agfundernews.com/tesco-invests-in-frictionless-checkout-startup-trigo.html Tesco Retail Technology — Tesco invests in frictionless checkout startup Trigo October 17, 2019 Lauren Stine UK supermarket behemoth Tesco has partnered with Israel-based checkout technology developer Trigo and made an equity investment in the startup one month after it closed a $22 million Series A round. “We’ve benchmarked the market in this space, and they are by far and away… Read More »
News story excerpt from CBS News Walmart said it’s adding almost 4,000 robots to its stores and facilities. The investment will allow human workers to shift to other tasks that are harder to automate. The push into robotics comes as the company has boosted worker wages. The robots are coming for Walmart workers’ jobs, with the retail giant… Read More »
