The robots are coming

The future will feature a lot more pizza bots instead of pizza boys if London-based delivery robot maker Starship Technologies has anything to say about it. The robot-focused startup – founded in 2014 by Skype cofounders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis – is on something of a tear at the moment, having just raised $17.2 million from investors that included Daimler.

3 Restaurant Stocks With the Best Comparable-Store Sales Growth

As restaurant investors probably already know, comparable sales are perhaps the single most important metric in determining a company’s success. The figure, which strips out the effect of sales at stores that have been opened or closed in the last year, probably provides the best snapshot of a brand’s current popularity.