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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Scala introduces AI-driven restaurant automation solution
Scala has launched an AI-driven restaurant automation solution designed to revolutionise the quick service restaurant (QSR) sector. The solution, known as Scala Quintet, aims to enhance speed of service, order accuracy, back-of-house operations and sales conversion through an integrated platform of digital solutions. The Quintet platform is the result of Scala's expertise in visual display, AI optimisation and user experience design. It offers restaurant operators and managers complete control over digital menu boards, allowing for the creation, scheduling and real-time updates of content. This includes the management of product descriptions, category tags and limited-time offers to improve the customer experience and drive sales. The Scala Quintet solution comprises five key components that work together to automate and streamline restaurant operations. Street-facing digital displays are designed to capture the attention of passers-by and encourage restaurant visits with dynamic content that can be updated through the Quintet system. Indoor and outdoor digital menu boards at ordering counters and drive-throughs features clear, engaging content that can be updated in real time. Self-order kiosks integrate with Quintet's kitchen system and update orders in real time for customers and staff. Orders pop up on kitchen screens instantly, and progress is shown on menu boards. Kitchen displays give staff control over preparation steps, enabling efficient task distribution with designated zones. Digital displays for customer order pick-up enhance accuracy and service speed. Scala chairman Chris Riegel added: "Scala Quintet pairs the Scala heritage of using visual displays to convert sales for our customers with our ordering workflow and self-service capabilities to automate and enhance the efficiency of restaurant operations and drive greater profitability.' "Scala introduces AI-driven restaurant automation solution" was originally created and published by Verdict Food Service, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Scala Launches Quintet, an All-in-One AI-Driven Restaurant Automation Solution
Five Components of Quintet Deliver Self-Order Convenience, Improved Accuracy and Efficiency MALVERN, PENNSYLVANIA / / May 19, 2025 / Scala today announced a new all-in-one solution, Scala Quintet, which delivers improved speed of service, order accuracy, back-of-house efficiency, and significantly improved uplift and sales conversion for the QSR sector. Scala Quintet launches with a focus on quick service restaurants and will expand to additional sectors who have a need for self-service applications that optimize consumer service times, labor efficiency, and personalized guest experiences that help improve the bottom line. The Quintet platform was built leveraging Scala's extensive visual display and guided sales experience, AI optimization and best-in-class intuitive user experience methodology, giving restaurant operators, and managers direct control over the creation, scheduling, and real-time updates of digital menu boards. Quintet includes outward-facing attract window screens, self-order kiosks, kitchen order-management tablets, and order-ready screens/pickup systems. A built-in AI layer personalizes content and order experience updates for digital menu boards and displays, including product descriptions for new and existing items, category tags, labels and bundles, limited-time offers (LTOs), and premium features. "Scala Quintet pairs the Scala heritage of using visual displays to convert sales for our customers with our ordering workflow and self-service capabilities to automate and enhance the efficiency of restaurant operations and drive greater profitability," said Chris Riegel, Chairman of Scala. The five components of Scala Quintet introduce fully integrated digital signs and solutions at key points of automation and efficiency for guests and crew: Street-facing digital displays: Attract attention and drive restaurant visits with attention-grabbing content on large-format digital displays, all powered by updates made in Quintet. Indoor and Outdoor Digital menu boards: Clear, compelling content on digital displays at the ordering counter and in the digital drive thru is easily updated in real time. Make full use of dynamic dayparting and AI automation options to drive more sales using Quintet's intuitive UI, regardless of technical design or content management skills. Self-order kiosk: Kiosks are fully integrated with Quintet's kitchen management application, ensuring that both guests and crew receive real-time order updates. Once an order is placed, it immediately appears on a kitchen-facing screen for processing, while guests can follow order progress on the menu board. Kitchen order management displays: Quintet allows you to optimize your fast-paced kitchen workflow, tailored to your QSR's specific operational needs. Your crew has complete control over every step of the preparation process. Additionally, Quintet lets you set up different task-preparation zones throughout the kitchen, streamlining task distribution to the right crew. Order-ready screen/order pickup solution: Customer-facing displays and fixtures, tailored to your restaurant pickup needs. Order-ready screens help the crew drive order accuracy, speed, and high value service experience that brings the customer back. Replacing cluttered, disorganized static fixtures, digital displays provide clarity and order status updates in real time - all customizable and seamlessly organized through Quintet's interface. "There is a need to streamline the disparate technology solutions that QSRs have been introducing to the customer experience since the opportunity with digital menu boards was realized," said Harry Horn, Vice President Marketing Global at Scala. "Quintet keeps the user experience at the core of its value for both the QSR customer and the kitchen crew. While integrating complex systems, Quintet remains easy to use, easy to update, and fully automated. The solution will benefit many industries looking to optimize efficiency and personalization." Scala, part of the STRATACACHE family of digital solutions companies, debuted the five-component platform in STRATACACHE's booth #8209 at the National Restaurant Association Show, being held May 17-20 in Chicago. Learn more about Scala Quintet at MEDIA CONTACT: Andrea Poley Director, Communications & Digital SOURCE: Scala Inc. View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire
The Guardian
19-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
English National Ballet: The Forsythe Programme review
It's no coincidence that so many of a new generation of choreographers have danced for William Forsythe, the most influential dance-maker since George Balanchine. It's not just that he encourages thought and creativity, enabling people such as Crystal Pite, Emily Molnar and Jill Johnson to emerge as significant forces in their own right. It's also that he makes dancers look so powerful, majestic, in control of time and space and their own destinies. English National Ballet's The Forsythe Programme, which has been filling Sadler's Wells with adoring audiences this past week, is a case in point. In three contrasting works, the sense of dance prowess realised springs from the questing character of Forsythe himself. Never a man to rest on his laurels, in his mid-70s he's still refining and rethinking dance. He seems constantly to ask himself what something is, turning it like a diamond to see how the facets will refract the light. Rearray (London Edition 2025), originally made as a duet in 2011 for Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas Le Riche, has been refashioned as a trio, with one central ballerina (now on pointe) and two male consorts. In a series of short scenes separated by sudden blackouts, sometimes to David Morrow's dark-hued score, sometimes in silence, the dancers shape the air in fiercely defined symmetries. In her central role, Sangeun Lee's long legs flick into casual attitudes, her arms outstretched into impossible geometry. Halfway through a movement, she seems to hesitate, question where to go next. In the dark, positions shift, often surprisingly. The men (Henry Dowden, Rentaro Nakaaki) are watchful, in her thrall. They fling off sprightly jumps, super-fast turns; sit on stage, arms interlinked like medieval jesters. The piece is full of quotations from works of the past, struck almost casually before the dancers move on. In the next cast, Emily Suzuki brings a gentler flow to the dynamics of the movement, less haughty than Lee but still very much a queen to the attendant men (Jose María Lorca Menchón and Miguel Angel Maidana). The pensive mood is in marked contrast to the muscular vitality of Herman Schmerman (Quintet), for two men and three women to music by Thom Willems, reconceived with a bright blue background (lighting design Tanja Rühl) and orange plush velvet leotards. Created for New York City Ballet in 1992, its title taken from Steve Martin's noir parody Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, it's an abstract piece of circus vitality that sets its participants off in cheekily insouciant showoff turns. The energy is electric as, on opening night, Aitor Arrieta, Alice Bellini, Ivana Bueno, Francesco Gabriele Frola and Swanice Luong stroll on to fling themselves into off-kilter pirouettes and eye-popping entrechats, feet and limbs moving at pace. At the end, they all fall down – a tribute to the final moment of Balanchine's Serenade, perhaps, but also a reflection of just how exhausting the combinations they throw off are. The delicious contrast between the formality of the patterns created and the relaxed bravura of the dancers is amped to the max in the final work, Playlist (EP) from 2022, in which dazzling feats of balletic virtuosity are set to a score by artists including Peven Everett, Lion Babe and Barry White. It begins with ENB's impressive cohort of men performing athletic (and often rarely used) ballet combinations like battling club dancers, raising the roof with the sheer elevation of their jumps and the sharpness of their turns. Then the women enter like a brilliant chorus line. The intricate shifts of their movements, alone and in constantly changing configurations, release a sense of infectious pleasure. Yet amid the delirium there's subtlety too: a duet for Junor Souza and Precious Adams to Natalie Cole's This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) is full of feeling as well as panache. The entire evening feels like an assertion of ballet's ability to wrap its past and future into one joyful package. Forsythe's works are a jewel in ENB's crown, and the company makes them gleam. The Forsythe Programme is at Sadler's Wells, London, until 19 April
MTV Lebanon
17-02-2025
- Politics
- MTV Lebanon
Egyptian Ambassador Moussa condemns UNIFIL attack, reaffirms Quintet's support for Lebanon
Egyptian Ambassador Alaa Moussa stated that "the attack on UNIFIL is unacceptable and those responsible must be held accountable." After meeting with President Joseph Aoun and the ambassadors of the Quintet Committee, he said: "We listened to the President's assessment of recent security events, and the Lebanese state is determined to assert its authority, with everyone being subject to the law." He added: "We continue to support the new phase Lebanon is going through and are fully committed to standing by the Lebanese state. We also reaffirm the Quintet's commitment to the reconstruction file, ensuring it is fully carried out under the supervision of the Lebanese state."
