Empowering employees with the tools they need to be more efficient with less time and support should be a critical priority for leaders in the restaurant industry. The Fast Company Executive Board is ...

If you’ve recently been to a fast-food restaurant, you’ve probably noticed the proliferation of self-service kiosks that allow you to place your order and pay for it remotely. Even McDonald’s Corp. is ...

Restaurants are increasingly using robots to handle mundane human tasks amid rising labor costs. Chipotle, White Castle, and Sweetgreen are using robots to prepare salads, fries, and chips. A fully ...

Aniai is expanding the deployment of its Alpha Grill automated grilling system across U.S. restaurants and enterprise partners, supported by recent funding and ongoing collaborations.

Less than six months after launching its first Infinite Kitchen in Naperville, Illinois, sweetgreen is putting the pieces in place to staff more restaurants with the salad-making robot. The assembly ...

Diners at Sweetgreen in Willis Tower, get ready to meet the chef of the future: a robot that makes your salad to order. The California-based chain is launching its automated Infinite Kitchen system ...

Restaurants are experimenting with automation. But in the kitchen, human labor is hard to replace. Credit... Supported by By Julie Creswell Photographs and Video by Brian Karlsson The robot in the ...

What is the only thing better than a pizza? According to Donatos, it is a pizza made by a robot. On June 9, Donatos had a grand opening of its fully automated restaurant in partnership with Appetronix ...

While headquartered in the United States, Aniai has already seen strong adoption of Alpha Grill in Asia, where major franchise brands including Lotteria, Mom's Touch, and Frank Burger use the ...

Automation technology in the foodservice industry doesn’t necessarily have to look like robots flipping burgers or delivering drinks to customers. In fact, as we’ve written about in the past, the ...

Donatos Pizza, the premium pizza company famous for its abundant Edge to Edge toppings, is opening its first fully autonomous pizza restaurant in June. Donatos and its sister company Agápe Automation ...

When a customer orders kung pow chicken at the new iWok restaurant by the Texas Medical Center, a robotic system sends small white bowls of pre-cut ingredients to sit next to an electric wok. A metal ...