technology

Operations

4 organizational trends gaining steam

Sodexo this month unveiled its list of 10 trends impacting workplaces worldwide during 2017. Here are a handful that pertain particularly to FSDs, and how some operators are addressing those trends. 

Operations

7 growing trends in foodservice equipment

While the industry may not be quick to adopt ultra high-tech advances such as robots, there's innovation happening on the equipment front, with suppliers trying to make running an operation easier.

Between menu planning, budgets and the other myriad concerns FSDs face, it’s easy to overlook the simple ID and/or cash cards issued to diners.

Read on for stealable staffing, menu and operations ideas.

As part of a large public research university, FSD Dawn Aubrey has a wealth of brainpower at her disposal. Here are three ways she has partnered with other departments.

From providing new avenues for feedback to dinner and a movie, tech additions are making a splash at several senior living communities. 

Automation has opened up in recent years as foodservice operators across the country grapple with labor shortages. Robots now deliver food and make sushi.

Here’s a look at how two operators added coffee service with relatively small footprints—with one decidedly futuristic, and the other low-tech but nimble.

Here's how some FSDs are settling into the new workflow of a new year.

All signs point to voice recognition functionalities.

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