RIF026: Keith Lee Feud, Netflix Bites In LA, Restaurant Uses Priest To Scam Employees

🤖 ROBOTIC REVELATION

“Austin” by Serve Robotics gets knocked over and looted on a delivery run

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Nala Robotics Introduces Autonomous Bowl Bot and Sandwich Bot

Sandwich Bot can prepare nearly any type of sandwich from 48 choices of meats, vegetables and cheeses – all within a 16’ x 12’ space.

Within a 10’x10’ footprint, Bowl Bot can prepare Bowls from 28 ingredients of bases, proteins and toppings.

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📸 ENTERTAINMENT FEED

Netflix plans to serve up food to eat, not just watch

On June 30, Netflix Bites will open in Los Angeles and will feature food from the chefs you’ve come to love on the smaller screen from shows like “Chef’s Table,” “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend,” and “Is It Cake?”

From Iron Chef, Curtis Stone, Dominique Crenn, Ming Tsai and Andrew Zimmern. From “Chef’s Table,” Rodney Scott and Ann Kim will contribute. Nadiya Hussain of “Nadiya Bakes,” is involved, as is Jacques Torres of “Nailed It!”

Drinks will be created by Frankie Solarik, Julie Reiner, LP O’Brien and Kate Gerwin of “Drink Masters.”

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MrBeast says he's 'moving on' from MrBeast Burger

In now-deleted tweets, the YouTube star said quality-control problems with the virtual band are hurting his image. But shutting it down entirely may be out of his hands.

Jimmy Donaldson wrote that he wanted to shut down MrBeast Burger, “but the company I partnered with won’t let me stop even though it’s terrible for my brand.

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📣 GUEST EXPERIENCE presented by Ovation

The one word, the secret ingredient to a phenomenal guest experience, “Caring”! Caring, not “Karen”!!

💰MARKET WATCH

Olo lays off 81 people as part of reorganization by Joe Guszkowski

The company is ironing out complexities that resulted from acquiring Wisely and launching a payments product. It’s also hiring a COO.

The company’s existing “Business Units” will be narrowed down to three core segments: Order, Pay and Engage.

As part of the restructuring, Olo is hiring a chief operating officer. Joanna “Jo” Lambert, who was most recently a strategic advisor to Yahoo and has held senior executive roles at PayPal, Venmo and American Express

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💡 EMPHASIZING TEAMS

Calif. restaurants used a bogus priest to learn of worker 'sins' like stealing

Taqueria Garibaldi used the ruse to learn of such confessed infractions as fudging hours, according to a Department of Labor investigation.

“Under oath, an employee of Taqueria Garibaldi explained how the restaurant offered a supposed priest to hear their workplace ‘sins’ while other employees reported that a manager falsely claimed that immigration issues would be raised”… by the Department of Labor

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🎬 TALK TIK TOK

Keith Lee has beef with Chicken Fire after owner goes on offensive with attacks on social media of Lee’s review of the restaurant

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Does using “Keith Lee’s” name on your restaurant order help you get better food? Keith explores this suggested approach. 

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