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AI across the food chain — precision agriculture and agritech, restaurants and food service, and nutrition and diet. From AI-run drive-thrus and crop-disease detection to calorie-tracking apps and the future of how we grow, cook and eat.

245 stories tracked since June 2026, from 133 sources

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Deliverect and SoundHound AI partner to automate restaurant voice orders

Two software companies are betting they can solve one of the restaurant industry's most persistent headaches: the costly human labor required to process phone orders. Deliverect, a Belgian platform that manages delivery logistics for thousands of restaurants, has partnered with SoundHound AI to deploy voice recognition technology that could handle orders without staff intervention—a move that threatens to accelerate job losses in an industry already squeezed by thin margins and labor shortages. The partnership signals how aggressively AI companies are now targeting the last bastions of human customer service work, even as restaurants struggle to maintain quality and customer trust.

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The more Americans use AI for recipes, the less they trust it

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What do you think of restaurants using AI 'slop'?
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What do you think of restaurants using AI 'slop'?

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McDonald’s turns to AI for drive-thru, inventory management, order accuracy
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McDonald’s turns to AI for drive-thru, inventory management, order accuracy

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Restaurants Are Using AI to Advertise Their Food and It’s Making People Sick

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McDonald's says its AI-enabled drive-thru system can now take orders in English and Spanish with 90% accu

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‘Absolutely not’: Macca’s boss vows no staff cuts as AI-powered drive-thru comes to Sydney
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‘Absolutely not’: Macca’s boss vows no staff cuts as AI-powered drive-thru comes to Sydney

On Thursday, Macca’s new “dedicated order assistant”, powered by Google’s Gemini AI chatbot, was switched on for the lunch rush for the first time. “It’s my job to make sure the crew can focus on ...

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McDonald’s tests Archy, an AI drive-thru voice for English and Spanish

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AI Slop in Restaurant Menus: Why Diners Are Pushing Back
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AI Slop in Restaurant Menus: Why Diners Are Pushing Back

Shiny shrimp rings and dishes that do not exist: AI slop in restaurant menus is spreading, and diners, lawyers and scientists are pushing back. The post AI Slop in Restaurant Menus: Why Diners Are...

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Macca’s becomes latest fast food giant to trial AI in drive-thru after scrapping initial rollout
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Macca’s becomes latest fast food giant to trial AI in drive-thru after scrapping initial rollout

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How to Build Reliable AgTech AI When Farm Data Is Incomplete
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How to Build Reliable AgTech AI When Farm Data Is Incomplete

by Sciforce — In agriculture, missing data is part of the job. Farm data comes from different sources, under changing field conditions, and at different…

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One Function, 92% of the CPU: Profiling an Azure Cobalt Workload with Arm Performix
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One Function, 92% of the CPU: Profiling an Azure Cobalt Workload with Arm Performix

by Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ — How targets, recipes, and an MCP server turn Arm hardware counters into a fix you can verify

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10 Marketing Automation Recipes Built with n8n and AI. Includes All 10 Workflow JSON Files [September 2026 Edition]
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10 Marketing Automation Recipes Built with n8n and AI. Includes All 10 Workflow JSON Files [September 2026 Edition]

Have you ever opened the billing screen of an automation tool and found yourself frozen in your tracks?What was supposed to be 3,000 yen a month last year has somehow exceeded 10,000 yen. When you ...

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I Gave an AI Agent a Restaurant to Run. Here’s What It Needed to Know First.

The agent could take orders, check tables, and talk to customers. It still got the simplest order wrong because nobody had told it the… Continue reading on Medium »

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AI restaurant ads are free. But at what cost?

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AI 'slop' is dominating menus, as some restaurant owners turn to it to save time and money
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AI 'slop' is dominating menus, as some restaurant owners turn to it to save time and money

Diners have taken to social media to share photos of overly-shiny sandwiches and circular shrimp, lamenting the suspected use of AI. But some in the restaurant business say it's helped them reduce ...

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McDonald’s Bets on Disembodied Bilingual AI Voice for Drive-Thru Orders

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Slop on the menu — customers alarmed by restaurants’ AI ‘food’ photos

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How LLMs Decide What to Say: Temperature, Top P, Top K, and More
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How LLMs Decide What to Say: Temperature, Top P, Top K, and More

by AI Recipe — A beginner-friendly guide to controlling randomness, repetition, response length, and when an AI model should stop talking.

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What is the "AI & Food" debate about?

AI across the food chain — precision agriculture and agritech, restaurants and food service, and nutrition and diet. From AI-run drive-thrus and crop-disease detection to calorie-tracking apps and the future of how we grow, cook and eat.

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Best AI News Today has tracked 245 stories on AI & Food since June 2026, drawn from 133 distinct sources. The archive grows automatically as new coverage appears.