🧪 AI Monitors Temperature to Cut Food Waste

June 27, 2025

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🍽️ What’s Cooking?

How Generative AI Could Change Restaurant Jobs

AI isn’t just for tech companies anymore. In the restaurant and hospitality sectors, generative AI is beginning to automate repetitive tasks like answering customer questions, generating menus, and even helping with inventory and scheduling. While this may reduce the need for some administrative roles, it also creates new ones focused on AI oversight, content review, and tech management. Adaptation will be key for workers and managers alike.​ ​Read more.

🃏 Running a Smoother Kitchen

Use Colored Labels to Avoid Cross-Contamination

Assign different colored labels to key ingredients by category—red for meat, green for vegetables, blue for seafood, etc. This helps your kitchen staff quickly identify and separate ingredients, especially during busy hours. It's a low-cost system that improves food safety and speeds up prep time.

Jira is the best cross-functional tool for project management

For 20 years, Jira has been the #1 choice for agile software teams to manage delivery of incredible projects. Now, Jira is flexible and easy to use for any team. In fact, in 2024, Atlassian was the only vendor recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for both DevOps Platforms and Marketing Work Management Platforms - bringing together every kind of team to deeply transform how they run, grow, and share best practices.

And with AI in Jira, you can capture tasks from Slack or Microsoft teams, write a complete description, create subtasks based on your previous work, and find and attach relevant work and resources.

So your teams, instead of working in siloed spreadsheets, can move forward with all the context they need to move their big ideas from due to done. That’s how Jira helped Reddit break down silos between teams and Roblox save 150K annually.

🚀 Scaling Up

Full-Service Chains Pose a New Threat to QSRs

Quick-service restaurants are feeling pressure from an unexpected direction: value-driven full-service chains. These sit-down brands are adjusting menus and prices to compete more directly with fast food, offering better dining experiences at a similar cost. Franchise owners are now rethinking location strategies, menu pricing, and how to hold customer attention in a market that’s shifting rapidly. Read more.

🦾 Fresh Ideas

AI Monitors Temperature to Cut Food Waste

MetaFoodX has launched a new AI-powered temperature monitoring tool designed to help restaurants avoid spoilage and safety issues. The system tracks cooler and freezer conditions in real-time and sends alerts before temperatures cross safe thresholds. With food costs rising and health inspections becoming stricter, this tech offers both compliance and cost-saving benefits. ​Read more

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