AI Drones Are Coming for Food Delivery! Here’s What Restaurants Need to Know

AI is reshaping restaurants faster than most operators realize. In this episode of Restaurant Pulse, we break down three major stories impacting restaurant operations right now: AI drone food delivery, Wendy’s menu shakeup, and how AI is streamlining restaurant ordering systems. This episode covers: 🚁 Whether AI-powered drone delivery is a realistic option for restaurants—or still years away 🍔 What Wendy’s menu changes reveal about speed, simplification, and protecting margins 🤖 How AI-driven ordering tools are improving accuracy, throughput, and labor efficiency Instead of chasing headlines, we focus on what these changes mean at the operator level—how they affect costs, workflows, guest experience, and scalability. Restaurant Pulse is your weekly briefing on the business, technology, and strategy shaping the restaurant industry.