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Melco combines advanced technology with the latest thinking in behavioral science to cut plate waste by 35%
MACAU, Sept. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Melco Resorts & Entertainment has successfully cut plate waste in employee dining areas by up to 35%.
In 2020, Melco rolled out the Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) system, Winnow Vision, across its properties to lead the charge against food waste in employee dining room kitchens to target overproduced waste. Tracking detailed food waste data enabled the teams to identify post-consumer waste (i.e. plate waste) as the main source of food wastage in employee dining rooms.
To directly tackle plate waste, Melco collaborated with Winnow and London School of Economics (LSE) on a project to combine Winnow’s new post-consumer waste measurement product, Winnow Sense – a touchless system designed to measure plate waste, with a study to monitor consumer behavior.
A series of interventions were designed by the LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science, and the study concluded that anthropomorphized food (i.e. pictures that depicted happy and sad food) had significant impacts on behavior leading to reduced levels of food waste.
The project has been successful, with interventions shown to reduce food waste by as much as 35%, and qualitative feedback from colleagues showing a shift in behavior both at work and at home. While Winnow Sense has been installed in all employee dining rooms across Melco’s integrated resorts in Macau and Manila, Melco and Winnow are now in the process of exploring applications in consumer-facing dining areas.
Ms. Denise Chen, Senior Sustainability Adviser of Melco, said, “Given the global impact of waste on the health of people, food security and the planet, we take food waste very seriously. In 2020, we began our partnership with Winnow AI technology to reduce food waste in the kitchens of our employee dining rooms. We were excited by the opportunity to partner with Winnow and LSE to trial awareness and communication campaigns to encourage colleagues to change behavior in relation to plate waste. We are pleased to be the first company to trial Winnow Sense and will be using findings from the study to further communicate to our colleagues to reduce plate waste on an ongoing basis.”
Mr. Marc Zornes, CEO and co-founder of Winnow said, “We couldn’t be more proud of the team at Melco who have already cut food waste significantly with Winnow but wanted to go even further. This blueprint designed in collaboration with world renowned experts from the London School of Economics presents huge opportunities for operators everywhere to help their diners make more sustainable food choices whilst maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction.”
Melco, Winnow and LSE’s Plate Waste Project
Food waste poses a challenge for businesses across Macau. The issue is gaining traction amongst residents, with over 80% respondents of a 2021 study considering the issue of food waste in Macau to be serious. Whilst the complexity of the food supply chain means multiple solutions are required to solve the problem, it is commonly accepted that prevention of food waste is the most desirable outcome. This formed the starting point for the collaboration between Melco, Winnow and LSE.
In most commercial kitchens serving pre-prepared foods, around 5-15% of all food purchased ends up being wasted (source: Winnow). Around 30% of such food waste happens because diners take too much and leave unwanted food on their plates (source: Winnow). To test whether strategically placed communications could help individuals make more sustainable choices, a study was carried out at Melco’s employee dining facilities in Macau at City of Dreams, Studio City and Altira Macau resorts. The three properties combined serve over 11,000 employee meals a day.
The interventions were measured using Winnow Sense. Comprising a motion sensitive camera and digital scales, the touchless system automatically captures an image and weight of any food waste, and harvests data in the cloud to record waste levels over the course of each service. Combining this data with the number of covers served allows the team to create a metric for food waste grams per cover, to then be used to chart progress throughout the study.
Launched in January 2021, the team at LSE selected one employee dining area as a control, and another two to introduce communications in the form of posters placed at strategic points around the dining area. All locations were equipped with Winnow Sense units to measure plate waste. The system is designed to be placed either in the front or back of house. In this study, the systems were placed in the front of house allowing Melco team members to quickly record their food waste using the touchless system.
In parallel, Winnow ran periodic plate waste audits at each site to analyze the components of plate waste and the percentage of edible (e.g. meat, veg, fish, grains) vs non-edible (bones, peels, non-food items) waste. Audits showed that the percentage of edible food items was decreasing, providing further evidence for behavioral change.
By May 2021, the results were in. Compared to the trend seen at the Control Site, the site which received the heaviest intervention saw a significant reduction in plate waste of as much as 35% over the communications period, with effects sustained even after the communications were removed. Notably, the LSE team found that the site which received the posters with the anthropomorphized food items had the greatest reduction, and that staff from the same site also self-reported more efforts in reducing food waste both at work and at home.
About Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited
The Company, with its American depositary shares listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (NASDAQ: MLCO), is a developer, owner and operator of integrated resort facilities in Asia and Europe. The Company currently operates Altira Macau (www.altiramacau.com), an integrated resort located at Taipa, Macau and City of Dreams (www.cityofdreamsmacau.com), an integrated resort located in Cotai, Macau. Its business also includes the Mocha Clubs (www.mochaclubs.com), which comprise the largest non-casino based operations of electronic gaming machines in Macau. The Company also majority owns and operates Studio City (www.studiocity-macau.com), a cinematically-themed integrated resort in Cotai, Macau. In the Philippines, a Philippine subsidiary of the Company currently operates and manages City of Dreams Manila (www.cityofdreamsmanila.com), an integrated resort in the Entertainment City complex in Manila. In Europe, the Company is currently developing City of Dreams Mediterranean (www.cityofdreamsmed.com.cy) in the Republic of Cyprus, which is expected to be the largest and premier integrated destination resort in Europe. The Company is currently operating a temporary casino, the first authorized casino in the Republic of Cyprus, and is licensed to operate four satellite casinos (“Cyprus Casinos”). Upon the opening of City of Dreams Mediterranean, the Company will continue to operate the satellite casinos while operation of the temporary casino will cease. For more information about the Company, please visit www.melco-resorts.com.
The Company is strongly supported by its single largest shareholder, Melco International Development Limited, a company listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and is substantially owned and led by Mr. Lawrence Ho, who is the Chairman, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
About Winnow
Winnow develops cutting-edge digital tools to help chefs run more profitable, sustainable kitchens. Launched in a single staff restaurant in 2013, Winnow is trusted today by thousands of chefs in over 40 countries, where kitchens’ food waste is consistently cut in half. Together Winnow and its partners are saving over 36 million meals a year from the bin: the equivalent of $40 million in food cost savings for its clients. For more info: www.winnowsolutions.com
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Skai positioned as Leader in the 2024 SPARK Matrix for AdTech Platforms by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions
The Quadrant Knowledge Solutions SPARK Matrix™ provides competitive analysis & ranking of the leading advertising technology vendors.Skai, with its omnichannel advertising platform, receives strong ratings across the parameters of technology excellence and customer impact.MIDDLETON, Mass., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Quadrant Knowledge Solutions announced today that it has named Skai as a 2024 technology Leader in the SPARK Matrix analysis of the global SPARK Matrix™ AdTech Platform 2024 Market.
Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ AdTech Platform market research includes a detailed global market analysis, competitive landscape, and functional capabilities. It aims to provide strategic information for technology vendors to enhance their understanding of the market and support their growth strategies by evaluating different vendors’ capabilities, competitive differentiation, and market position.
According to Piyush Kumar, Analyst, Quadrant Knowledge Solutions, “Skai’s ad tech platform offers an integrated approach to omnichannel media orchestration. It combines campaign activation and management capabilities with advanced AI-driven insights to help marketers make smarter decisions. The platform is designed to provide marketers with a holistic view of their media across all advertising touchpoints, ensuring that marketers are not just reacting to data, but are proactively leveraging it to make choices that drive results. Skai’s industry-first capabilities empower marketers to maximize every channel they’re utilizing across every campaign lifecycle, while streamlining operational processes and deepening understanding of consumer behavior and campaign performance. This has positioned Skai as the leader in the SPARK Matrix: Ad Tech Platforms, 2024.”
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“As walled garden media evolves into a full-funnel, omnichannel approach underpinned by first-party data and AI, it is critical for brands, agencies, and retailers to work with an advertising technology platform that enables decisioning, activation, and optimization solutions across all top performance media channels,” said Gil Sadeh, Chief Growth Officer at Skai. “We are thrilled at the acknowledgment of our leading position in this space, and look forward to continuing to drive growth for our customers and partners.”
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Skai is an omnichannel advertising platform, uniquely enabling brands and agencies to run data-driven programs across walled garden media. It empowers both media leaders and activation teams to drive impactful results from their advertising program with AI-powered decisioning, activation, and optimization solutions. Its partners include Google, Amazon Ads, Microsoft, Walmart Connect, Apple Search Ads, Instacart, Criteo, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, Meta, and more.
For over a decade, Skai has earned the trust of notable brands such as HP, Doordash, Sony, Philips, and L’Oreal. Renowned for innovation and a values-driven culture, Skai is headquartered in San Francisco and Tel Aviv with eight international locations.
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The Industry-Leading Motion Platform Company will Present Cutting-Edge Products Like the Award-Winning Dart-Suite Robot Ecosystem and an AI-Powered Bartending Cobot “Mixmaster Moodie”
CHICAGO, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Doosan Robotics Inc., one of the world’s leading collaborative robot (cobot) manufacturers, is poised to transform the robotics landscape at Automate 2024, North America’s largest automation showcase, with the industry’s latest cobot advancements across various sectors. Doosan Robotics is exhibiting at Automate May 6-9 at McCormick Place booth #850 in Chicago, IL.
With a comprehensive range of cobots and cutting-edge software like Dart-Suite and AI technology, Doosan Robotics is dedicated to revolutionizing motion solutions tailored to human needs. From machine tending to palletizing, welding, and F&B services, the company offers a diverse array of ready-to-sell solutions catered to both domestic and global markets. That is why Doosan Robotics’ theme at this year’s Automate is “The Motion Platform Company.”
On May 6, Doosan Robotics will unveil its latest, never-before-seen industrial cobot which boasts the greatest capabilities of any machine in its category including a 30 kg payload.
Doosan Robotics booth will feature Dart-Suite, a 2024 RBR50* (Robotics Business Review) Innovation Award-winning advanced robot ecosystem designed to redefine the way customers utilize Doosan cobots. The scalable platform elevates cobot capabilities by providing unlimited programmable motions, while ensuring accessibility for all. Dart-Suite fosters a cohesive environment where every component synergizes, empowering users to create, market, download, and activate functions through diverse interfaces. This evolution propels robots from mere static tools to dynamic, flexible collaborators. The Dart-Suite platform has also been honored as a finalist of the 2024 Automate Innovation Awards in the category of Software.
“Our team at Doosan Robotics is honored to return to Automate 2024, the pinnacle event of automation in North America,” expressed William Ryu, CEO, Doosan Robotics. “We’re committed to transforming the robotics landscape and Automate holds immense strategic significance for us, offering a direct gateway to various industries. Our cobot line’s power will be on full display, alongside the customizable functionality and usage that differentiate our technology. We look forward to sharing our innovative solutions and continuing to drive the industry forward.”
While at Automate, drinks are on Doosan! The industry-leading, motion-platform company will showcase “Dr. Presso,” an unmanned modular café equipped with a top-of-the-line coffee machine, and “Mixmaster Moodie,” a bartending cobot powered by Microsoft’s OpenAI. “Mixmaster Moodie” is coupled with “Tetote,” Bridgestone’s soft robot hand powered by bendy rubber artificial muscle that employs a pioneering cocktail recommendation system to serve a cocktail based on visual and audio cues. Doosan will also present its Training Kit, a certified training equipment which allows users to practice and experience Doosan’s cobot training programs anytime, anywhere.
Doosan Robotics joined forces with prominent global companies, each celebrated for their expertise and dominant presence in the market, to pioneer AI cobot solutions for commercialization. These best-in-class partners in each solution include the Apex Motion Control’s Baker-Bot Quad, a first-of-its-kind modular cake decorating system which consists of individual robotic stations including top and side cake icing, decorative borders, top rosettes, and writing messages and drizzling.
Other partnerships include the Paltz De-palletizing System, a robotic depalletizing work cell with vision from BeRobox with CMES; Ellison Technologies’ AutoPilot Machine Tending Solution which is a load/unload system designed ideally for CNC Machine Tools for the manufacturing industry; the Cloos ArcBot, a Doosan M1013 cobot arm with integrated Cloos StarT welding pack; Hillside Automation’s CNCtender, a Complete Machine Tending solution with software interface on new generation controller; and MARI AARS System which simplifies the deployment, operation, and maintenance of robotic automation systems, marking a groundbreaking advancement in user-friendly AI software and plug-and-play hardware.
Doosan Robotics is driven by a vision to elevate everyday experiences and redefine labor workflows. Their exceptional range of AI cobots is poised to bring about a paradigm shift across various sectors, including manufacturing, logistics, food & beverage, architecture, and service industries. These cutting-edge solutions transcend the constraints of conventional robotics, adeptly maneuvering through intricate scenarios while infusing tasks with enhanced efficiency, safety, and ingenuity. Moreover, the AI system boasts continuous learning capabilities, effortlessly updating its model by autonomously downloading required modules for smooth integration.
Doosan Robotics’ exhibit is located at booth #850 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL from May 6-9, 2024.
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*For more than a dozen years, the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards have recognized robots that promise to positively change how we work and live. WTWH Media’s robotics editors select the honorees on the basis of how they address technology and business challenges. The 2024 winners will be celebrated at the inaugural RBR50 Gala at the Robotics Summit & Expo.
ABOUT DOOSAN ROBOTICSDoosan Robotics is a global leader in collaborative robot solutions, embodying the principle of ‘Innovation in every motion, revolutionizing the way we work.’ Doosan robots, known for world-class safety and precision, enhance task efficiency across various sectors from manufacturing to service, enabling people to focus on more valuable work. More information about Doosan Robotics is available at https://www.doosanrobotics.com/en/.
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AdTheorent named Leader in the 2024 SPARK Matrix for AdTech Platforms by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions
The Quadrant Knowledge Solutions SPARK Matrix™ provides competitive analysis & ranking of the leading AdTech platform vendors.AdTheorent, with its comprehensive machine learning-powered technology platform, receives strong ratings across the parameters of technology excellence and customer impact.MIDDLETON, Mass., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Quadrant Knowledge Solutions announced today that it has named AdTheorent as a 2024 technology Leader in the SPARK Matrix analysis of the global AdTech Platform market.
Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ AdTech Platform market research includes a detailed global market analysis, competitive landscape, and functional capabilities. It aims to provide strategic information for technology vendors to enhance their understanding of the market and support their growth strategies by evaluating different vendors’ capabilities, competitive differentiation, and market position.
According to Piyush Kumar, Analyst, Quadrant Knowledge Solutions, ‘The AdTheorent platform stands out in the AdTech Platform market due to its advanced machine learning and privacy-forward solutions including its predictive targeting, audience extension solutions, geo-intelligence, and Studio AT creative capability. The platform’s unique features including ID-independent targeting and cross-device mapping help organizations tackle the cookie depreciation challenges, engaging customers across multiple devices, and supporting industry-specific use cases. AdTheorent with its strong partner ecosystem, product strategy & performance, vision, and roadmap has been recognized and is positioned as an emerging leader in SPARK Matrix: AdTech Platform, 2024.’
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‘AdTheorent is an ID-independent platform that uses advanced machine learning technology to predict the value of ad impression opportunities based on advertiser goals. Our unique capabilities have never been more relevant as the digital advertising industry evolves beyond ID-based targeting. AdTheorent’s 12-year investment in machine-learning innovation positions us and our advertising partners for success in the post-cookie world,” said Jim Lawson, CEO of AdTheorent. “We are honored to be recognized as a leader in the 2024 Spark Matrix for AdTech Platforms by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions.’
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AdTheorent (Nasdaq: ADTH) uses advanced machine learning technology and privacy-forward solutions to deliver impactful advertising campaigns for marketers. AdTheorent’s machine learning-powered media buying platform powers its predictive targeting, predictive audiences, geo-intelligence, audience extension solutions and in-house creative capability, Studio AT. Leveraging only non-sensitive data and focused on the predictive value of machine learning models, AdTheorent’s product suite and flexible transaction models allow advertisers to identify the most qualified potential consumers coupled with the optimal creative experience to deliver superior results, measured by each advertiser’s real-world business goals.
AdTheorent is consistently recognized with numerous technology, product, growth, and workplace awards. AdTheorent was named ‘Best Buy-Side Programmatic Platform” in the 2023 Digiday Technology Awards and was honored with an AI Breakthrough Award and “Most Innovative Product” (B.I.G. Innovation Awards) for five consecutive years. Additionally, AdTheorent is the only seven-time recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s “Digital Advertising Leadership Award.’ AdTheorent is headquartered in New York, with fourteen locations across the United States and Canada. For more information, visit adtheorent.com.
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