Every restaurant P&L starts with a guess: how many guests are coming, and how much food to prep and order for them. Guess high and it ends up in the trash. Guess low and the top seller is 86’d at 7 p.m. U.S. restaurants and foodservice generated 12.5 million tons of surplus food in 2024, according to ReFED, and more than 2.6 million tons of it was overproduction. The five Best Forecasting & Inventory AI finalists are replacing that guess with a forecast that writes the prep list and the order. Meet the finalists for Best Forecasting & Inventory AI in the Savor AI 50: The 2026 Restaurant AI Awards. Winners are revealed Dec. 1.
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The kitchen is where restaurant AI gets physical. Meet the five Best Kitchen AI & Robotics finalists in the Savor AI 50: The 2026 Restaurant AI Awards: Hyphen, Middleby, Miso Robotics, Next Robot and Richtech Robotics. Winners are revealed Dec. 1.
