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In making his new ghost kitchens startup CloudKitchens , ex- Uber Co-founder Travis Kalanick has become something of a real estate mogul, buying up 40 properties in two dozen cities, according to The Wall Street Journal. The concept behind CloudKitchens involves renting out space to businesses to prepare food for delivery.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Vending machines may get a makeover now that Byte Foods, a startup that makes so-called smart vending machines, raised $5.5 Vending machines may get a makeover now that Byte Foods, a startup that makes so-called smart vending machines, raised $5.5 million or more Internet-connected vending machines in the marketplace.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Facebook, Alphabet, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon and other major companies are all working on AI projects, along with numerous tech startups. Since starting Clarifai,” Zeiler said, “we’ve seen many startups in the space that have since been acquired.” For video, Clarifai’s API doesn’t just send back one set of tags. “We

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Technomic’s Top 100 Global Chain Restaurant Report for 2016 found, for instance, that 68 percent of customers in Asia reported using a mobile device to place a food order in the past three months, and in the Middle East, that statistic was about 60 percent. But in North America, placing mobile orders to restaurants is still a novelty.

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JULY 11, 2017

Nobody likes getting cold food delivered to their restaurant table. What they need, according to the Austin- and Sydney-based tech startup BlueCats , is a GPS: A Guest Positioning System to give servers a general sense of where a customer is seated. But the solution can also be scaled to create as many zones as the restaurant needs.

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APRIL 26, 2018

A consumer on the hunt for fresh food and grocery items steps into a convenience store with nary a human physical worker in sight and checks in with a mobile payments app. And those are just the startups; the big names in Chinese retail and eTail have also made their interest known. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

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APRIL 3, 2019

One study indicates that the answer is not really — millennials cook two fewer meals per week than their baby boomer counterparts and choose pre-packaged/pre-prepared foods 18 percent of the time, compared to 5 percent for baby boomers. The pans come with graffiti-styled labels on the bottom and plantable paper tags embedded with basil seeds.

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