A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down ...

Chipotle (NYSE:CMG) and Cava (NYSE:CAVA) compete for health-conscious customers, but their recent team-up demonstrates where the industry is heading next. Hyphen, a foodservice platform that has ...

Collaborative robots — or “cobots” — are stepping into restaurant kitchens not to replace chefs, but to fill the prep gap by tackling repetitive, high-strain tasks. For operators facing labor ...

Jay Shah is a Lead Hardware Engineer at Caldo, specializing in robotics, automation and sustainable food technology. In the race to automate the commercial kitchen, robotics engineers face a uniquely ...

High-end restaurants are increasingly experimenting with robotic cooking systems as labor shortages, rising wages, and demand for consistency reshape kitchen operations. Automation can handle ...