12/21/2021 McDonald’s Corp. selling Dynamic Yield technology platform, aimed at personalization and decision engineering at kiosks and drive-thrus, to Mastercard, the companies announced Tuesday. See NRN Post McDonald’s Selling Drive-Thru Tech to IBM “The reason we’re doing this with IBM,” said Kempczinski at the time, “ is to be able to have someone that can take how far… Read More »
December 16, 2021 — We saw this wake-up call from IHL and agree with it. Audience growth factor seems to be the priority for the bad news “the sky is falling” bunch. How many twitter followers you get is a higher priority than how many actionable facts you provide your readers. Nowadays you have to apply an automatic… Read More »
Discussing the challenges of payment security in Europe; Jeremy King, Vice President, Regional Head of Europe for the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) and James Vale, Head of Payment Security Products & SME PCI DSS Compliance Programme at Barclaycard Payments. Some interesting factoids tossed out but article seems to be more about where payments are, without exposition… Read More »
Pretty big deal across the internet and widely reported. The best writeup we saw from the Spoon In brief item Media coverage of robotics in food service has been evolving over the past year, with news organizations going from gee-whiz articles about a cool new novelty to increasingly viewing the use of robotics as a direct result of… Read More »
Reprinted from GGS October 2021 Global retail sales were projected to amount to around 26.7 trillion U.S. dollars by 2022, up from approximately 23.6 trillion U.S. dollars in 2018. With such growth and disturbances across supply chains that started in 2020, many companies are looking for ways to streamline their business processes, cut costs and improve efficiency. Robotic… Read More »
Amazon Go + Starbucks Video Tour by Josef More Information Contact craig@catareno.com https://vimeo.com/382302427 https://vimeo.com/452621030 NRF 2022 Kiosk – Visit Pyramid QSR by Pyramid Computer and Intel Showcase Post Views: 669
Robotic Restaurant Kiosks Purpose-Built Cool new concept, deployed, for robotic restaurants for restaurant automation. As far as kiosks goes this project somehow weaves in the older conventional “kiosk definition”. Maybe the grain bowls are Turkish in origin. It definitely brings to mind the RMU or Remote Merchandising Unit. And not unlike a Ghost Kitchen albeit one out in… Read More »
Amazon Go & Starbucks Cashierless Store NY From CNBC Nov2021 In Brief Coffee is just one deliverable. A complete range of other “related” goods such as protein bars, chewing gum, salads and sandwiches available Stores like these will have longer hours. That counts. Decor set for solo workers but also group meetings Key Points Starbucks is opening… Read More »
IoT Market Research Predictions 2021 Great report from Kinsey listing markets for IoT. It’s hard to argue with RFID checkout and self-checkout payment is growing leaps and bounds. The old stand at cashier model is at or past the tipping point. They point to cost reductions in the store. Key point for us — Adoption of self-checkout use… Read More »
Ghost Kitchens Kickoff for Inspire Brands From NRN Joanna Fantozzi | Nov 10, 2021 Inspire Brands announced Wednesday the opening of its first ghost kitchen. Alliance Kitchen, which is located in Atlanta, will deliver food from five of Inspire’s major brands: Arby’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, Jimmy John’s, Sonic and Rusty Taco (not Dunkin’, however). Alliance Kitchen’s offerings will be available… Read More »
