Imagine you’re scrolling a grocery app after a long day. You’re not making a grand decision about the food system. You’re just trying to get dinner sorted. And yet, in that moment, a lot is being decided around you. What appears first. What’s “recommended.” What’s discounted. What’s “out of stock.” What costs a little more…
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Speed, Sustainability, and the Smart P&L: The Connected Future of High-Volume Foodservice
From pre-order apps to robotic fryers—how integrating the full tech stack is revolutionizing Roadside, Travel Retail, and QSRs. In the high-velocity worlds of Roadside “Foodvenience,” Travel Retail, and Quick Service Restaurants (QSR), the customer mission is distinct: speed is currency. Whether it’s a commuter grabbing a coffee at a highway stop or a family ordering…
From Transformation to Regeneration: Why Leadership Must Continue Evolving
Transformational leadership has long been celebrated as the antidote to stagnation. In a world defined by disruption, leaders are expected to innovate, adapt, and guide organizations through change. One compelling articulation of this logic comes from Tilo Hühn’s work on transformational leadership, which frames leadership as the bridge between exploitation and exploration—between what already works…
Emotional Analytics in Food Choice
When Our Feelings Become Data, and Food Becomes a Digital Response In recent years, food choice has shifted from being a deeply personal and intuitive act to a digitally observed and increasingly predicted behavior. What we eat is no longer shaped only by hunger, culture, or availability, but also by data, particularly emotional data. This…
Just-in-Time in the Supermarket: How Predictive Analytics Cuts Food Waste and Logistics Costs
Picture this: strawberries are sold out in the morning — yet two crates end up in markdown or the waste bin at another store that same evening. Both things can happen inside the same retail network, in the same week, sometimes even on the same day. The root cause is rarely “bad execution.” Most of…
The role of AI-driven shelf-life prediction systems in reducing food waste
Food waste is one of the great inefficiencies of our food system: roughly one-fifth of food available to consumers is wasted at household, retail and food-service levels, accounting for a sizeable share of global greenhouse-gas emissions and lost value along the supply chain (UNFCCC 2024). Cutting that waste requires better decisions about what to keep,…
A Digital Assistant for Community-Supported Agriculture
Freeing Time for Fieldwork and Community Solidarity-based Agriculture (Solawi) is built on trust, transparency, and shared responsibility. Producers and consumers jointly negotiate needs and contributions, and prices are meant to cover real agricultural costs rather than follow market logic. For many, the appeal of Solawi lies in collective workdays in the fields — reconnecting with…
The most important key is the one we rarely talk about.
ESC was never about efficiency.It was about interruption. After my last post on Game Over, many reflections converged on one insight: What we often call escape is not a weakness.It is a source of strength. In games, failure is not a problem.It’s how the system learns. You explore.You test.You fail — safely. And the game…
Digital Farming Is Only as Strong as the Systems Behind It
Digitalisation in agriculture is often discussed as a global transition, as if farms everywhere are moving along the same technological paths. My own experience suggests something more nuanced. Having grown up in the Dominican Republic and now living and studying in Switzerland, I have come to realise that agricultural digitalisation is not simply about adopting…
When Artificial Intelligence becomes a Partner
Artificial intelligence is increasingly discussed as a tool that optimizes processes, increases efficiency, or supports decision-making. However, empirical evidence shows that AI has already moved far beyond this instrumental role. For a growing number of people, AI functions as a social and emotional counterpart. One they talk to daily, confide in, feel attached to, and…
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