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The chain’s first live drone-delivery restaurant is in Denton, Texas. Its announcement points toward more Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston coverage without naming the next stores, dates, radius or fees.
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The nationwide app keeps restaurant menu prices, routes orders through Olo’s existing infrastructure and returns guest data to brands, but every order carries an Olo Network Fee.
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The $1,999 standalone device can answer menu questions and take spoken modifications, but it requires a paid restaurant plan, a $99 monthly device fee and a stable connection.
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The new integration pushes menus, hours, availability and allergen data from restaurant operations into Yext’s distribution layer, targeting a costly source of digital inconsistency.
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Toast IQ Team combines forecasting, schedule building, payroll, tips and employee tools—an effort to make AI part of the operating system rather than another standalone app.
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CEO Andrew Cathy says the chain is exploring AI behind the scenes but will preserve person-to-person ordering in drive-thru lanes.
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An exclusive Coco Robotics partnership is set to begin at Canary Wharf in October, with four more cities identified for later rollout.
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The platform links delivery, direct orders, reservations and guest data, with a broader integration rollout planned for 2027.
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The new dine-in rewards program starts with select users in New York City and Chicago.
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ArchIQ is not being pitched as a tech demo. McDonald’s says Restaurant > NEXT, including GenAI-enabled ArchIQ, is designed to unlock about 250 basis points of gross restaurant-level efficiency—and roughly $100,000 in annual cash-flow benefit for the average U.S. restaurant.
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The migration is an operations story disguised as a technology story: Olo says it loaded 900-plus Scooter’s locations for delivery in June, preserved the brand’s original marketplace launch date, then completed the mobile-app migration in September.
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Comments from its technology executive put customer choice at the center of the ordering experiment.
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