Renée Tomato

What productivity research, labor projections, and early deployments show about workflows, staffing, and operational control across the restaurant industry.The restaurant industry is growing. The...

A food entrepreneur can have a marketable recipe, paying customers and the skills to produce—and still lack an approved kitchen.Building a commercial facility creates...

The Discount Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets the DealA $325 million acquisition, 60 billion machine-learning offers a year, and a grocery platform that...

The next generation of medicine may not be a pill or an injection. Scientists are engineering cells that can sense disease, process biological signals...

Flytrex is placing aircraft on restaurant rooftops before customers order. The system could reduce delivery costs and human handoffs while giving algorithms greater control...

AI, autonomous machinery and proprietary agricultural software are removing labor from the field. The next displacement may be the farmer’s control over the farm...

The former Uber CEO spent eight years assembling restaurant real estate, operating software, food-production machinery and autonomous transportation into one physical-AI company designed to...

New executive orders connect interstate meat sales, country-of-origin labeling, remote grading and automated inspection. The stated target is cheaper beef. The structural result could...

AI Isn’t Just Learning How to Cook. It’s Learning How to Engineer What Food Becomes.For most of human history, food innovation followed a remarkably...

Your camera roll, voice, daily errands and household routines are becoming raw material for the robotics economy. A new platform stack lets ordinary people...