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An artificial intelligence food assistant is being pitched as the latest solution to the nightly question: what\u2019s for dinner?<\/p>\n
Food delivery app Just Eat Takeaway.com is launching an AI-powered voice assistant that helps users find meals, restaurants, and even retail and pharmacy products.<\/p>\n
The tool allows people to ask broad or specific questions, even if their requests are vague or unstructured, in more than a dozen languages, the company says.<\/p>\n
In a promotional video, the AI assistant is shown adding all the ingredients needed to make a carbonara to a shopping basket, before suggesting nearby restaurants where the dish could be ordered instead.<\/p>\n
The company says the feature is designed to reduce what it calls \u201cchoice overload,\u201d the difficulty of making decisions when faced with thousands of options on a single platform.<\/p>\n
Just Eat said that the AI\u2019s blended interaction model, which allows users to switch between voice and touch control, could be beneficial for individuals with visual impairments or limited mobility.<\/p>\n
Just Eat Takeaway.com is the latest food and delivery company to experiment with AI-driven assistance. Fast food chains such as Popeyes are reportedly testing AI systems in the United Kingdom, including voice technology, for drive-thru ordering.<\/p>\n
Just Eat\u2019s AI voice assistant is only available in the UK, but the company said there are plans to roll it out internationally later this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are harnessing the power of AI to empower everyday convenience across our entire network,” said Mert \u00d6ztekin, Just Eat\u2019s chief technology officer. <\/p>\n
“From intuitive customer personalisation and partner success to smarter logistics, we are embedding automation into every interaction to deliver a seamless, efficient journey that creates real value for everyone,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 27\/01\/2026 – 12:08 GMT+1 An artificial intelligence food assistant is being pitched as the latest solution…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,30619,1991,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-395126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-delivery","tag-food","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}