Poke House Enters UK Through Acquisition, Fast-Food Accuracy With Agot AI, Gen Z Dining Future, Vromo Food Delivery Platform Raise, Toronto Restaurateurs And The Vax Passport
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California-inspired Poke House is winning the poke war in Europe (Evening Standard) Already an established fixture in continental Europe, with 55 stores across Italy, France, Spain and beyond, the chain— which claims to be Europe’s biggest poke-dedicated group — has now worked its way onto British shores, landing on Portobello Road. Following its acquisition of Ahi Poke in April, which already had a number of London outposts, Poke House has now set its sights on launching around 50 more new restaurants across the UK in the next few months, as well as 14 others across the capital.
This restaurant tech start-up uses computer vision to get your fast-food order made accurately (CNBC) Restaurant tech start-up Agot AI has closed a $10 million seed funding round with Continental Grain, the Kitchen Fund and Grit Ventures as investors. The start-up installs overhead cameras in restaurant kitchens and uses computer vision to scrutinize if workers are preparing orders correctly.
How Dining Out Looks Different in a Gen Z Future (Yahoo Finance) While the trend toward digital, touchless ordering and payment methods was already on its way, the COVID-19 pandemic hurried it along out of necessity. Here are just a few of the ways Gen Z is reshaping dining out and finances in general.
Food delivery software platform Vromo raises €6.8m (Irish Times) The Irish company has developed a dedicated software platform for food delivery helps partners to better track deliveries by giving a bird’s eye view of fleets in real-time. The platform, which is live in over 250 cities, has more than 9,000 restaurants as customers and counts the likes of Doordash, Olo, Burger King and Deliveroo as partners.
Business and restaurant owners left confused, frustrated with rollout of vaccine passport (CBC) Businesses and restaurants in Toronto are saying they're confused and frustrated with the province's vaccine rollout plan, saying there are many unanswered questions regarding enforcement and verification.