Renée Tomato

AI adoption is accelerating across America's nonprofit economy. But behind the productivity gains is a harder question: Who controls the technology keeping essential services...

THE TRILLION-DOLLAR FOOD PIPELINEPart II: The Companies Behind the CargoThe businesses that move the world’s food do not all make money the same way....

Part I: The Price of Moving the World’s FoodBefore the world’s agricultural commodities reach international markets, they travel through a commercial network of trucks,...

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...