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Senator Bob Dole at the Capitol in Washington DC in 1996. (Yunghi Kim/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Bob Dole, a former Senate majority leader who unsuccessfully ran for president against Bill Clinton, died Sunday. He was 98 years old. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth Dole, who was also a U.S. senator, and a daughter, Robin, from a previous marriage. One of the giants of American politics in the 20th century, Dole will be remembered for his heroism in World War II, his time as Senate… Source link

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — If you’re taking a walk on the University of Arizona campus and you might see small, white six-wheeled robots that look like mini ice chests. They are the new food delivery rovers that deliver food from select Student Union restaurants to anyone on campus if they order on the Grubhub app. The rovers, created by the company Yandex Self-Driving Group, launched last week and now students are able to order IQ Fresh, Einstein Bagels, On Deck Deli and Sabor. Anyone on… Source link

Thanksgiving 2021 is already here and consumers are flocking to the stores to get last minute items. Yet given surging prices and the supply crisis that’s resulted in shipping bottlenecks, will there be anything left? According to experts, the answer is — there should be. “Consumers are are not really panic buying, but they’re buying in anticipation of not having it,” Pedro M. Reyes, associate professor of business at Baylor University, told Yahoo Finance. In many U.S. grocery stores,… Source link

The Russian tech giant Yandex, in collaboration with Grubhub, has begun offering its food delivery service at the Arizona State University campus, using for the first time in the United States the state-of-the-art robots it has developed for such end, he pointed the signature through a statement. According to the company, known as ‘Russian Google’, the food will be distributed by autonomous vehicles characterized by a more functional design, greater capacity and better performance, in… Source link

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Mattar Al Tayer witnesses the agreement signing by Hani Weiss, Chief Executive Officer of Majid Al Futtaim Retail and Artem Fokin, Head of Business Development at Yandex Self-Driving Group. Image Credit: RTA Dubai: Robots will be used to deliver food and groceries in Dubai in future as part of the Roads and… Source link

Grocery shoppers, beware: a number of recalls have been announced in recent days on seafood, crackers and canned beef with gravy. Shoppers should be on the lookout for some products from Northeast Seafood Products (which has distributed seafood products linked to a salmonella outbreak), Simple Mills (which is warning consumers of a packaging mistake that could lead to severe allergic reactions) and Crider Foods (which issued a recalled for canned beef with gravy after discovering it may have… Source link

If you happen to be on Ohio State University’s campus this fall, you’re likely to see what looks like a robot invasion. Fear not, they come in peace—with food. GrubHub and Ohio State have partnered to launch food delivery on campus using 50 self-driving “Rovers” provided by Yandex Self-Driving Group, a spinoff by Russian search engine powerhouse Yandex. That will expand to a fleet of 100 Rovers if all goes well, a spokesman says. Ordinary cars can’t reach the pedestrian-only areas… Source link

The competition among purveyors of plant-based protein is heating up the fast food industry with a frenzy that resembles the increasingly hot chicken sandwich wars. On Thursday, McDonald’s (MCD) announced its plan to test its first ever plant-based burger, the McPlant, it created with Beyond Meat (BYND) in a strategic three-year partnership. For now, however, the Sept. 29 launch is limited to 10 restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland. On October 13th, it will expand to 250 locations… Source link

Today in restaurant and grocery tech news, FreshDirect adds 250 SKUs of parent company Ahold Delhaize’s private label brands, and Russian food delivery company Yandex purchases a stake in Uber in a $1 billion deal. Plus, Nat Trienens, founder and CEO of digital ordering solutions provider Koala, discusses the delta variant’s effect on restaurant ordering habits. FreshDirect Woos Shoppers with Major Private Label Expansion, Lower Prices In a move to attract cost-conscious consumers with… Source link