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Aug 2020
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Lockdown Dining: The Evolution of Food D...

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Mohamed Al Fayed is the CEO and Co-Founder of Grubtech, a Dubai-based F&B tech company founded in 2019 that recently received $2 million in seed funding. He explains how the restaurant delivery industry has rapidly evolved with COVID-19, how Grubtech optimizes the digital process, the advent of robotic kitchen 'staff' and the ways AI will change the way we ... Show More
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