NextGen mailboxes, restaurant-in-a-box robotics, and is TikTok Kitchens over before it even began?

Check out our thoughts and views on the world of restaurants, technology, and off-premise food in our round-up of some of last week's hot news stories.

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Is TikTok Kitchens over before it even began?  + McDonald’s campaign promotes customer menu hacks:
https://bit.ly/34liTrS
https://bit.ly/3AG7Gyv

Stephan Soroka put a report out about the state of labor and the gig economy around the world and talked about this term 'algorithmic transparency' which proposes that gig workers should be able to see behind the curtain of how and why they are utilized in the way they are:
https://bit.ly/3r962Ca

NextGen Mailboxes were featured by FoD and a company called DroneDek - what's piqued your interest here?
https://bit.ly/3Hc6g1d
https://bit.ly/3HjE3FO

The NRA has told Congress that 46% of restaurants did not receive the RRF grant could close without support. How will this play out?
https://bit.ly/3GcupDx

Pizza Hut debuted a fully automated robot powered restaurant:
https://bit.ly/3s42lwQ