The amazing thing when you look closely at the foodservice industry, and the food sector as a whole, is how incredibly difficult it is to keep everything running.

For anyone working in the US food sector, and probably beyond, one piece of news dominated the headlines this week: Sysco agreed to acquire Restaurant Depot.

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Anyone who has worked around a commercial kitchen knows that the fire is rarely where the smoke alarm is. The alarm goes off in the dining room, but the grease has been building up in a duct three rooms away for weeks.

Every football coach watches the other team's game film. It is the closest thing to reading their playbook, and no serious team skips it.

USDA now expects beef and veal prices to rise 9.4% this year, more than triple the increase for food overall.

Tortelloni, Tortellini, Shakespeare and why generalised AI tools doesn't understand your business

On one hand, we live in the world of food. In fact, we were born into it. Our founders were raised in families whose work in the food industry spans generations: exporting prawns and seafood, buying and selling spices, running restaurants.

As an AI company, we know that understanding AI can be complicated. Part of what makes it difficult is that AI is not one thing. It's a combination of concepts, technologies and methodologies.