Innovation

📱 73% of hospitality guests are willing to spend up to 30% more for personalized experiences. AI-driven marketing is enhancing customer engagement, optimizing real-time campaigns, and increasing revenue in hospitality. Yum Brands uses AI for precise marketing, improving engagement and purchase rates. Starbucks, AccorHotels, and me&u also leverage AI for personalized offers, boosting sales and customer satisfaction. AI complements traditional marketing, driving revenue growth and higher ROI for adoptive brands.

📝 Saladplate, part of Informa Markets, serves as the hospitality, food and beverage industry’s content hub, offering weekly news updates, a monthly newsletter, and a bi-monthly e-magazine. It provides a supplier directory with over 10,000 brands and updates from over 35 international trade events.

🥘 Saladplate, part of Informa Markets, serves as the official content and engagement hub for the Hospitality, Food and Beverage sectors. It offers weekly news updates, a monthly newsletter, and a bi-monthly e-magazine. The platform features a supplier directory with over 10,000 brands, companies, and products, and provides updates and registration for more than 35 international trade events.

🍴 The National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show® announced the 2025 Kitchen Innovations (KI) Award winners, highlighting foodservice equipment and technology advancements. The Show will run from May 17–20 and will feature a Kitchen Innovations Showroom. Award-winning products such as Alto-Shaam's Origin™ convection ovens, American Metalcraft's BuffetBoost™ Warming Block, Appliance Innovation's SimpliciTea 1500, and Atosa USA's Chillstream™ Undercounter Frozen Food Dispenser, among others, demonstrate significant improvements in efficiency, sustainability, and performance. Products like these aim to streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and reduce waste, with an emphasis on real-world impact for foodservice operations.

🍳 The National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show® announced the 2025 Kitchen Innovations (KI) Award winners, which will be showcased at the event from May 17–20, 2025. The awards recognize advancements in foodservice equipment and technology that enhance kitchen operations and drive growth. Attendees can explore these solutions, which aim to improve kitchen workflows, sustainability, and consistency. The Show brings together various sectors of the foodservice industry and features discussions on kitchen equipment innovation (Saturday, May 17 at 11:00 a.m. CT) and networking opportunities (Saturday, May 17 at 12:00 p.m. CT).

🍕 The National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show announces 2025 Kitchen Innovations (KI) Award winners, exhibiting groundbreaking foodservice equipment and technology. The Show, to be held May 17–20, will showcase these innovations in Chicago. Innovations include Alto-Shaam's high-velocity Origin™ convection ovens, American Metalcraft's BuffetBoost™ Warming Block heating to 190°F in seven minutes, and Appliance Innovation's SimpliciTea 1500 that preserves fresh brewed tea quality. Atosa USA's Chillstream™ dispenses frozen products, while Bridge Appliances' OMM Automated Egg Cooker cooks 36 eggs in three minutes. Carter-Hoffmann's CHrisper Station doubles standard holding time for fried foods, and Charter House Innovations' RoboFry X4 is a compact fry automation solution. CookUp Group's Scraegg cooks eggs in 15 seconds, and Doyon's Dual Fuel Gravity Charcoal Oven combines charcoal and electric heating. Judges from global brands evaluated submissions for impact and value to foodservice operators.