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10 technology solutions to help food service operators deal with coronavirus

Here are 10 recent Food Management articles featuring technology solutions ranging from mobile ordering and delivery robots to video chef demos and sophisticated sanitation tools.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

June 23, 2020

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Here are 10 recent Food Management articles featuring technology solutions ranging from mobile ordering and delivery robots to video chef demos and sophisticated sanitation tools.

Since the emergence of the coronavirus in March 2020, the onsite food service industry has faced the challenge of continuing to serve customers while keeping its own employees as safe as possible. This has meant not only altering operational practices, service models and—in most cases—menus, but also looking at technology-based alternatives that previously may have been seen as too exotic, untested or impractical.

In the past four months, Food Management has seen a number of stories highlighting various technology solutions—or potential solutions—to the challenges posed by the impact of coronavirus on operations going forth as schools, colleges, businesses and entertainment venues begin to reopen with necessary restrictions, while healthcare and senior service facilities remain open but under radically changed circumstances.

Here is a roundup of some of the tech-focused stories we’ve run over this period that may help readers as they contemplate how to go forward in the COVID era.

About the Author

Mike Buzalka

Executive Features Editor, Food Management

Mike Buzalka is executive features editor for Food Management and contributing editor to Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News. On Food Management, Mike has lead responsibility for compiling the annual Top 50 Contract Management Companies as well as the K-12, College, Hospital and Senior Dining Power Players listings. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from John Carroll University. Before joining Food Management in 1998, he served as for eight years as assistant editor and then editor of Foodservice Distributor magazine. Mike’s personal interests range from local sports such as the Cleveland Indians and Browns to classic and modern literature, history and politics.

Mike Buzalka’s areas of expertise include operations, innovation and technology topics in onsite foodservice industry markets like K-12 Schools, Higher Education, Healthcare and Business & Industry.

Mike Buzalka’s experience:

Executive Features Editor, Food Management magazine (2010-present)

Contributing Editor, Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News (2016-present)

Associate Editor, Food Management magazine (1998-2010)

Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1997-1998)

Assistant Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1989-1997)

 

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