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AI Leaves the Pilot Lane
Restaurant AI just crossed from pilot to standard. Taco Bell runs voice AI in more than 890 U.S. drive-thrus, Bojangles is taking its AI lane to every unit, and Burger King plans an AI assistant in all U.S. restaurants by year-end. The bigger shift is quieter: AI is moving off the speaker and into hiring, prep, cross-sells and invoices, where the payback is easier to prove. Kitchen robots, meanwhile, are still mostly tests. Read the full operator playbook and this week's Savor AI Signal Watch, ahead of the Savor AI 50 winners on Dec. 1.