Global Foodservice News

For decades, beverage service in restaurants and foodservice environments has followed a familiar model. Operators purchase bottled water, canned beverages and packaged drinks, store inventory, replenish coolers, manage deliveries and absorb the costs associated with transportation, storage and waste. While that approach has remained deeply embedded in foodservice operations, changing consumer preferences, sustainability initiatives and…

Key Takeaways Data-driven cleaning uses real-time data to improve efficiency and results. Workloading software helps managers optimize staffing and control labor costs. Smart sensors and cleaning robots improve service, tracking, and consistency. By Keith Schneringer If you are a facility cleaning manager, there are probably some common questions you ask yourself each day regarding building…

Miso Robotics, the Pasadena, California-based company behind the Flippy automated fry station, has acquired the technology and intellectual property of Zume Pizza, one of the most heavily funded and closely watched food robotics startups of the past decade. The transaction includes Zume’s hardware, software and patent portfolio, which spans robotic food preparation, delivery, packaging and…

In a future increasingly shaped by technology, the most valuable skills may turn out to be profoundly human ones. Over a career spent in hospitality, I had a hand in developing hundreds of leaders—people who started as hosts, servers, line cooks, or dishwashers and eventually ran restaurants with large teams and millions in annual sales.…

The restaurant technology industry arrived at McCormick Place last month with a message that was hard to miss: the next phase of restaurant innovation is becoming more operational, more automated and more closely tied to the everyday economics of running a restaurant. At the 2026 National Restaurant Association Show, the industry’s largest annual gathering once…