{"id":255773,"date":"2026-05-26T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/restaurant-tech-execs-warn-against-ai-overdependence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:05:08","slug":"restaurant-tech-execs-warn-against-ai-overdependence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/restaurant-tech-execs-warn-against-ai-overdependence\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant tech execs warn against AI overdependence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantdive.com\/news\/restaurant-technology-executives-warn-against-ai-overdependence\/821024\/\">Restaurant tech execs warn against AI overdependence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantdive.com\/news\/restaurant-technology-executives-warn-against-ai-overdependence\/821024\/\">https:\/\/www.restaurantdive.com\/news\/restaurant-technology-executives-warn-against-ai-overdependence\/821024\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 08:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.restaurantdive.com\">www.restaurantdive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Listen to the article<\/p>\n<p>            <span class=\"text-to-speech__button__audio-length\">6 min<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2013 At the National Restaurant Association Show, Restaurant Dive made a point of closing our interviews with a simple question: \u201cWhen people talk about the restaurant sector right now, what\u2019s one thing they\u2019re getting wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almost universally, at least among restaurant tech leaders, the answer this year was \u201cartificial intelligence.\u201d This skepticism didn\u2019t correlate, however, with a lack of enthusiasm for the technology on the show floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI is the biggest thing of this entire show this year,\u201d said James Schonzeit, Square\u2019s head of food and beverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"standard-heading\">Uncertainty abounds over scale and use cases<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s far from clear how the suite of technologies called AI \u2014 large language models, machine learning, computer vision, sophisticated analytics algorithms and other tools \u2014 will impact restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>The speed at which AI is changing makes its ultimate use cases unpredictable. Just this month, Google announced it was moving away from traditional links-based search results in favor of AI summaries, while Starbucks killed off its AI inventory control tool.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one can tell you what&#8217;s going to be in place a year from now. They can tell you what they think, like Microsoft [AI CEO] saying all white-collar work will be done by AI in 18 months, that\u2019s obviously bullshit,\u201d said Brendan Sweeney, CEO and co-founder of Popmenu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem, Sweeney said, is that overadoption of large language models rests on shaky fundamentals. The cost of AI tokens required to operate coding services can exceed the salaries of the workers the technology purports to replace, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the slow pace of data structure construction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantdive.com\/news\/restaurant-technology-executives-warn-against-ai-overdependence\/821024\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurant tech execs warn against AI overdependence https:\/\/www.restaurantdive.com\/news\/restaurant-technology-executives-warn-against-ai-overdependence\/821024\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-26 08:59:00 Source Domain: www.restaurantdive.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/YEYrpYGGtZEOT5MUqDMxHWe5zyLfAx_T0P9AUIaFVjQ\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9HZXR0eUltYWdlcy0yMjY0NzM3ODM3LmpwZw==.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255775,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255773\/revisions\/255775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}