{"id":11617,"date":"2019-02-21T15:09:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=11617"},"modified":"2019-02-21T15:09:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:09:54","slug":"datatrac-retail-foodservice-technology-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/02\/datatrac-retail-foodservice-technology-february-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Foodservice<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Domino\u2019s <\/strong>new rewards programs rewards customers for purchasing any pizza through its app that leverages AI technology to identify a pizza as a pizza.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Dunkin\u2019 Brands <\/strong>commented that it has moved much of its infrastructure over to Amazon Web Services\u2019 public cloud, a process it began in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Chipotle <\/strong>is building drive-thru lanes for the first time to meet mobile order demand. The lanes will be used exclusively for order-ahead app customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Chipotle<\/strong> digital sales grew to nearly $500 million in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Good Times Burgers &amp; Frozen Custard <\/strong>has partnered with Valyant AI (Denver, CO) to implement AI-order taking as a trial in a Denver-area drive thru to speed up order taking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. has entered into an agreement to acquire San Francisco-based smart home products company Eero.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Lowe\u2019s<\/strong> is getting out of the connected device business, having announced that it would no longer operate the Iris smart home platform after the end of March.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Samsung<\/strong> opened its first 3 retail stores in the US. They landed in L.A., Long Island and Houston and are highly experiential.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Target Corporation<\/strong> will soon start allowing customers to complete transactions via the Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay mobile payment apps. In addition, the discount giant will accept contactless cards from Mastercard, Visa, American Express and Discover.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Grocery\/Convenience<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Speedway LLC<\/strong> announced customers can now use Apple Pay to checkout at all of its stores nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Drug\/Health\/Beauty<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Cardinal Health Inc<\/strong>. named Brian Rice as Exec VP and CIO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Just because we don\u2019t mention it here doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t happen \u2013 or we didn\u2019t capture it. In the past four weeks, we\u2019ve updated more than 570 companies in the Database of Foodservice Technology and Database of Retail Technology, with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foodservice \u2022 Domino\u2019s new rewards programs rewards customers for purchasing any pizza through its app that leverages AI technology to identify a pizza as a pizza. \u2022 Dunkin\u2019 Brands commented that it has moved much of its infrastructure over to Amazon Web Services\u2019 public cloud, a process it began in 2017. \u2022 Chipotle is building&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/02\/datatrac-retail-foodservice-technology-february-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 February 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-11617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-technology","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}