All posts tagged "Foodservices"

DETROIT — Sterling Heights, Michigan-based pizza chain Jet's already uses artificial intelligence as part of its ordering technology, and now it's using AI to come up with new menu ideas. The "ranch veggie pizza" was developed using an AI-powered chatbot. The pizza has the chain's famous ranch dressing, plus mozzarella, feta cheese, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, black olives and tomatoes. "Though an interactive exchange, the chatbot AI contributed unique insights and innovative ideas," according to a Thursday press release. "We're in the era of AI and Jet's is continually exploring ways to......

A black bear is being blamed for devouring 60 cupcakes at a central Connecticut bakery, then wandering away. Taste by Spellbound owner Miriam Stephens wrote about the encounter on Instagram, where she claimed the interloper entered her bakery’s garage and helped itself to dozens of pastries being loaded into a delivery van. An employee named Maureen first made the grisly discovery. “All [of a] sudden, we hear her screaming bloody murder and then yelling, ‘There’s a bear in garage!’” Stephens said. The frightened staffer ran back inside the bakery and slammed shut a door connecting the garage t......

Erika Harrison, a Houston attorney who has lived in the area since she was 5, started her blog, Black Girls Who Brunch, “to showcase the vibrant food scene beyond the franchise restaurants.” But recently, the blog has grown into much more than that. In addition to providing restaurant recommendations, Harrison has become a connector for many of the Black professionals who are flocking to her city. “Black professionals who move here are coming for the perceived Black excellence. I constantly hear, ‘I know Black people do well in Houston, so that’s why I’m here,’” Harrison said. “It’s doctors, l......

There were moments, early in the pandemic, when Joseph Musillami wasn’t sure how the family business would make it. Purely Meat Co., a commercial butcher in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood that supplies mostly high-end restaurants, saw sales plummet 75% when the state banned indoor dining in March. It halted plans to expand into a 35,000-square-foot facility purchased late last year and more than double its current footprint, and let go of many of its 60 employees. “It started out beyond scary when you think you’re going to lose your house,” said Musillami, whose wife, Maribel Moreno......