The Singapore-based app expects GrabFood to hit breakeven by the end of 2021 – with or without prospective merger partner Gojek, which has reportedly opened talks with e-commerce giant Tokopedia.
San Francisco’s Afresh has seen a major uptick in interest for its AI-powered order management software as Covid-19 rocks the supermarket industry with shifting demand patterns.
Designed by Miso Robotics, Flippy is taking over grilling and frying stations at the burger chain so human employees can focus on customer satisfaction.
Phood’s back-of-house hardware and software system serves as a measurement tool for kitchen crews to help them figure out exactly what is being wasted.
The UK firm is buying two US startups, with CEO Tim Steiner seeing “significant opportunities” in robotic manipulation solutions for online retail and logistics.
Sun Art operates close to 500 stores across China which have been integrated with Alibaba’s food e-commerce platforms Taoxianda and Tmall Supermarket.
As the restaurant industry turns to tech amid Covid-19, startups are landing investment – and have a unique opportunity to accelerate tech adoption.
“Social Solidarity” is beyond any doubt one of the most used phrases of recent weeks. At the same time, the foodservice industry is probably the most affected sector of the global Covid-19 pandemic, as Italy is the worst-hit European country, writes Antonio Iannone.
Moka, a Jakarta-based startup offering POS software for food merchants, could help the on-demand ‘super app’ build out its service offering to restaurants.
Consumers are demanding more digital offerings from restaurants, but new technologies are creating unexpected pain points for operators.
A digital hospitality management point of sale system managed to close an oversubscribed investment round despite the global backdrop perhaps bolstered by its food delivery-related offering as other startups offer other means to avoid human interaction in the restaurant space.
It took Amazon nearly two and a half decades to capture 5% of the world’s retail. If that period was about layering technology on top of the physical world, the next will be digital-first, physical second.
The major poultry products producer hopes to eventually integrate the platform with grocery retailer’s ecommerce offerings to enable digital basket sharing.
What’s the latest with CafeX and its robotic cafes?
One could be forgiven for questioning why the world needs a robot that can make 300 pizzas an hour. Clayton Wood, CEO of robot making startup Picnic, often has to answer for that.
“I’m very optimistic and excited about what the world will look like in 2050 but I think it is helpful though to think about where we’ve come from in order to think about where we’re going.”
Trigo’s technology uses computer vision and AI to see what shoppers put in their carts, charging their accounts when they walk out the door. Tesco invested just after its Series A round.
Are you an allergy sufferer and in need of peace of mind? Israeli startup allerguard could help out. It just got $1.5m in backing for its detection tech.
The Israeli computer vision company uses AI to track the items shoppers place in their cart for a frictionless checkout experience.
Using different languages to order your food could soon become a moot point at McDonald’s drive-thrus, with the company’s acquisition of Apprente — a two-year-old startup that’s been making impressive strides in voice recognition software.
