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This week’s 6 head-spinning moments

Restaurants’ social-media revenge, a $100,000 love slap, edible cups, Starbucks’ real-estate values and other boons for chiropractors.

Technology

Domino’s marketing approaches nearly outnumber its tech offerings

Supplementing celebrity endorsements with faux PSAs and large-scale product giveaways, Domino’s aims to give digital ordering an even bigger slice of the (pizza) pie.

This week, we find Chipotle’s other restaurant connection, Japan’s kink on the naked restaurant craze, the new opportunity to turn unused seats into cash, Tilted Kilt’s show-all riff on display kitchens, and indications that restaurant apps could become obsolete.

A gathering of forward-thinking techies predicts what the not-to-distant future might look like for restaurant operators.

Preparation of orders placed through mobile devices will begin when the system detects the patrons premise on site. The guest will be given a choice of how they want to pick up the order.

The recognition of the industry's boldest user of technology was bestowed on a college operation rather than a conventional restaurant.

Aimed to drive efficiency, cost cutting or just novelty, robotics are helping operators automate simple tasks.

The sales trainee was trying to explain his failure. "You know," he said to his manager, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."

Like wine, no two olive oils are exactly alike. Each oil is distinct, a unique product of soil, climate, olive type (there are at least 60 varieties of olives) and processing method. And like wine, olive oil is a changing, “living food."

As the calendar flips from 2006 to 2007, gazing into the proverbial crystal ball becomes an increasingly popular activity.

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