After traveling these past few weeks to CES and the Fancy Food Show,
we’re excited to kick back and do precisely nothing this weekend.
Hopefully you have a similar amount of plans. But before you get to
finally reading that New Yorker stack on your coffee table, take a quick
read through our weekly food tech news roundup. This week we’ve got
stories on everything from dairy-free yogurt to booze-free cocktails —
enjoy! McDonald’s Israel uses sensors to help blind customers
This week McDonald’s Israel announced that it would install a voice
navigation app in all its stores in order to assist blind customers and
those suffering from dementia. In-store Sensors from Israeli company RightHear
will interact with customer’s phones, which will read out custom
directional voice instructions. This move will make McDonald’s Israel the first restaurant chain in the world to
offer full access to visually impared customers. It’s kind of shocking
that it’s taken so long for this to happen, but hopefully if the sensor
program has success at McDonald’s Israel it will spread to the rest of
the chain’s global locations — and to other fast-food restaurants, too.
Photo: Shake Shack.Shake Shack announces plans to launch mobile food truck
Shake Shack is going mobile. This week Randy Garutti, CEO of the wildly
popular fast-casual chain, announced that Shake Shack would be launching
a food truck concept in early February. The first two trucks will be in
New Jersey and Atlanta, but move around throughout their respective
regions. According to Skift Table, Shake Shack’s leadership team plans to mainly use the trucks for community events, private parties, and local festivals.
Photo: YoFixIsraeli company YoFix launches dairy-free/soy-free yogurt
Last week we wrote about how Chobani was getting into the plant-based
dairy game — it seems they’re not the only ones. This week YoFix Probiotics, winner of PepsiCo’s European Nutrition Greenhouse Programme 2018, announced a line of vegan, soy-free yogurts made from a blend of oats, legumes and seeds. The three flavors will have the “same or better” nutritional value as regular yogurt but will have no dairy, soy, added sugars or preservatives.
Photo: Coca-Cola Compan Coca-Cola debuts non-alcoholic “cocktails”
If you’re doing Dry January (and hats off to you), good news: there’s a
new mocktail option for you. This week Coca-Cola introduced Bar None, its new non-alcoholic cocktail concept, in various retailers in Atlanta. The booze-free bottled drinks come in four cocktail-inspired flavors, like Sangria and Ginger Mule. According to Food Dive,
this marks the first time a Big Food/Drink company has launched a line
of non-alcoholic beverages — we’ll see if their bet pays off.
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