Monthly Archives: September 2022

This food tech startup is helping brands like Panera Bread and Popeyes boost drive-thru sales with a voice bot named Tori

Panera Bread is testing AI-powered bots at the drive-thru. Panera Bread Panera Bread is known as a restaurant pioneer when it comes to technology. The chain is working with tech startup OpenCity to test voice bot ordering at the drive-thru. OpenCity, which also works with Popeyes, says AI-powered bots can improve accuracy and speed.  In…

Y Combinator, Global Brain back Tailor, a Japanese headless ERP startup

Tailor, a Japan-based back-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, said today it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding from Y Combinator and Global Brain. Founded in 2021 by Yo Shibata and Misato Takahashi, Tailor provides a headless ERP platform, meaning an ERP without a front end, instead delivering data from back-office systems like finance…

How the CEO of Wingstop plans to boost sales by dropping DoorDash as an exclusive delivery partner and finally entering the chicken sandwich wars

Wingstop With guests cutting back on visits, Wingstop’s new CEO explains his playbook for boosting sales.   One move is ending an exclusive delivery partnership with DoorDash and adding Uber Eats.  Last week Wingstop also entered the chicken sandwich wars, years after competitors.   Wingstop was among several tech-savvy restaurant chains that became a pandemic winner, logging…

CVS is buying home-healthcare company Signify Health for $8 billion in major healthcare tie-up

“We can’t be in primary care without M&A. We’ve been very clear about that,” CVS CEO Karen Lynch told analysts last month. Shannon Stapleton/File Photo/Reuters CVS said Monday that it is acquiring home-healthcare company Signify Health for $8 billion.  The drugstore giant previously said it would expand its healthcare services by the end of 2022….

Sea of Thieves celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day with XP-boosting community event

Sea of Thieves is getting in the spirit of Talk Like a Pirate Day with a week of celebrations that’ll include the swashbuckling multiplayer adventure’s latest XP-boosting community event. The general festivities begin on Thursday, 15th September (running until Tuesday, 20th September), bringing a free Arrrgh! emote for anyone that logs in during the event,…