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Robot Delivery Service Coco Opens With Austin Restaurants - Eater Austin - 0 views

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  • Los Angeles-based robot delivery service Coco made its way into Austin this month.
  • Vaquero Taquero, Arpeggio Grill, Bambo Bistro, Clay Pit, DeSano Pizzeria, Tuk Tuk Thai, and Aviator Pizza.
  • robots, which will be controlled remotely, will make deliveries in the South Lamar, South Congress, general South Austin, downtown, North, North Loop, and Domain areas.
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  • food delivery service company Refraction AI debuted its robots with Southside Flying Pizza.
  • georgemacintyre on 27 Feb 22
     
    The company Coco uses robots to deliver food to customers. In the world we live in today food delivery is bigger than ever. Coco uses robot delivery rather than using humans driving cars. This is a relatively new technology and is something that has just recently been adopted by restaurants in Austin, TX.
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How Digital Transformation Can Reshape Guest Experience In The New Pandemic Era - 0 views

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  • For half a decade, the travel and hospitality industry has been trying to incorporate technology to enhance the way it interacts with its customers. Perhaps, the pandemic has been the major catalyst to accelerate digital transformation initiatives in the hospitality industry
  • But what exactly is digital transformation? Digital transformation is the implementation of the latest digital technology into a company’s business operations, processes and people to improve and optimize the customer experience.
  • The modern, tech-savvy traveler is more informed, empowered and wants to feel valued. Now, there is a demand for a frictionless, intuitive, hyper-personalized experience at every touchpoint in their travel journey. And digital transformation technologies such as AI, robotics, big data, IoT, cloud, mobile and AR/VR underpin a successful personalized guest experience.
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  • The things that power this disruptive technology — smartphones, on-demand apps, social media — are powering the change in guest behaviors.
  • 1. Leverage customer data to increase subscriptions: 
  • 2. Implement an agile leadership mindset:
  • 3. Omnichannel experience:
  • Brands must observe and compare the existing guest experience with what they prefer. With insightful data in hand, decision-makers need to modernize products and offerings, deliver innovative solutions and implement agile models in their business culture and operations.
  • georgemacintyre on 21 Feb 22
     
    The hospitality industry has needed to dive all in on technology for a while now. The pandemic kickstarted the industry to really go all in. Many of todays guests really want a very personalized experience. Hospitality companies are using technology to provide guests with a very unique experience personalized exactly for them. The use of new technology from some companies is just going to have to make other companies try and keep up with them. An arms race of technology is likely to happen in the industry.
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The Demand for Contactless Technology is Here - and Here To Stay | By Jasmine Seliga - 0 views

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  • While hospitality technology is my passion, a pre-pandemic snapshot of our industry proves that adoption was on the slower side
  • Serving guests is the heart of our industry, and there are risks with automating processes that could potentially disrupt the seamless guest experience we have worked so hard to establish.
  • I am seeing an evolution of hospitality like I've never seen before, and it seems it is here to stay.
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  • Our industry has been uncharacteristically receptive to new development and technology since the onset of the pandemic.
  • We are seeing the need for automated solutions to support staff in a way we never have before.
  • We must start looking to invest our dollars in a solution that handles everything from booking and contactless check-in, seamless guest communication all the way to business intelligence t ools that track the guest experience.
  • What should you be looking for if you haven't adopted an integrated solution already? Your system should give guests options to personalize and take control of their experience with online reservations, mobile check-in and check-out, self-service kiosks, communication through a guest portal, and support for online and mobile payments. The more convenient self-service options you can provide, the greater your guest satisfaction will be.
  • Be open to the agility of a product that can do more than take a reservation and check a guest in. And most of all, stay engaged. Stay engaged in what's going on in and around our industry.
  • georgemacintyre on 13 Feb 22
     
    The Hospitality industry has been somewhat hesitant to adapt to new technologies. This may be the case of hospitality companies being scared to go away from what we consider good customer service. The pandemic helped to jumpstart the hospitality industry into accepting new forms of technology. Technology is on the rise in the hospitality industry and is only going to continue to be more and more prevalent.
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No, guests do not require human-provided services in hospitality | PhocusWire - 0 views

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  • The classic philosophy in hospitality goes like this: customers – whether leisure, business, corporate group or SMERF members - require services provided by super nice, smiling, well-trained humans.
  • I believe the notion that guests are demanding human-provided services is greatly exaggerated, especially today. A great example of why guests do not care about human-provided services as much as some in our industry think comes from the vacation rental sector.
  • The vast majority of these short-term rental bookings were done online via Airbnb, Vrbo, FlipKey, Vacasa, etc.
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  • Just imagine the whole vacation rental experience: you book online, receive online confirmation and pre-arrival information (directions, keyless entry info, destination info, etc.); upon arrival enter the unit using the mobile key or keyless entry; enjoy your stay; pack your bags and leave on day of departure.
  • All of this while having a completely humanless experience!
  • Five years from now, the hospitality industry won’t be needing half the people it needed back in 2019, and the savings from payroll will mean the investments in next-gen technology will pay for themselves.
  • The ultimate goal imposed on hospitality by the marketplace is simple: do more with fewer employees by using technology and thus reducing the property’s staffing needs by a significant percentage. 
  • So how much human labor would a hotel need in the future? In my view, five years from now, the hospitality industry won’t be needing half the people it needed back in 2019, and the savings from payroll will mean the investments in next-gen technology will pay for themselves.
  • georgemacintyre on 17 Jan 22
     
    This article portrays the belief that human interaction is very overrated in the hospitality industry. This author believes that rental services such as airbnb are proving that human interaction is unnecessary in hospitality and that hotels are wasting many resources by hiring too many people that technology could do the work for instead.
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Sandpiper Hospitality chooses grab-and-go technology provider | Hotel Management - 0 views

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  • georgemacintyre on 17 Jan 22
     
    Sandpiper Hospitality has joined on with the self-service grab and go kiosk Impulisfy. This is a technology that is growing rapidly in popularity. It provides an increase in efficiency which is something hospitality companies are always looking for.
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