Top 3 technology innovations changing the restaurant industry | FastCasual - 4 views
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With technology evolving on multiple fronts in today's foodservice industry, restaurant operators are facing more pressure than ever to improve their business operations.
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Grimes encouraged foodservice operators to not only take a comprehensive look at the types of technology affecting their industry but also how they could apply innovations being used outside foodservice.
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ake Pepper the robot, for example, which a few airport restaurants are using to greet guests, provide menu details and offer menu recommendations.
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This article highlights the advice Robert Grimes, International Food & Beverage Technology Association president and CEO, gives to those looking to innovate their technologies in the Food & Beverage industry. In the article Grimes hits 3 main points: robotics, 3D printing, and Blockchain. He hits that robotics are being utilized already in food service outlets. How robotics are not only assisting customers with faster food times but also providing more variety to them within this decreased period. As well as assistance in the kitchen to execute orders faster. He discusses how 3D printing "will enable the food service industry to serve more fresh food - faster and with less space than traditional food service." For example, with cake decorating and pizza making. Within the article, Grimes also has an obscure idea, but yet one no one has thought about yet, of using a tracking service called Blockchain that can be readily available to customers to see where food from a restaurant is coming from (i.e. farm to table restaurants could show where they are receiving their products from exactly). Almost emulating the tracking service most use for packages being delivered to their homes. Grimes lastly explains the "seven Cs" of food service technology - clarity, convergence, connections, convenience, choice, consumer and commitment. "He placed clarity at the top of this list since the rapid growth of technology calls for clarifying what one refers" to, which he utilized to explain the 3 innovations. The rest of the article hits the rest of the C's and what each means to him and how it could help improve food service. However, the most important piece of information comes with the closing sentence: "To utilize technology, an organization must make a concerted effort to ensure that all employees are making use of it." Meaning that, you could implement everything and believe in it fully, but without belief of those working for you and with you, none of it will matter.
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