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Growth in Corporate Meal Orders (Q1 2026)
Comparison of order volume growth vs user growth, highlighting the spike in late-night and weekend work activity.
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Remember the Pentagon Pizza theory? There's a new version for the AI era
By Samuel O'Brient You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. and Sarah E. Needleman You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. AnnaStills/Getty Images 2026-05-03T09:56:01.322Z A corporate food service has seen late-night and weekend orders surge, outpacing new user growth. The findings suggest these workers are logging more hours, even as some employers say AI boosts efficiency. They also echo a popular theory linking spikes in pizza deliveries to government buildings ahead of geopolitical events. AI is making white-collar work more efficient, proponents of the technology say. Employees' eating habits may tell another story. When companies such as Atlassian, Block, and Snap, announced mass layoffs earlier this year, they cited one common factor: AI. The technology, they said, has led them to adjust the makeup of their workforces.Yet data from Sharebite, a corporate meal benefits and delivery platform founded in 2015, suggests AI may be driving some workers to log longer hours — not fewer. The company said the number of client orders placed on Saturdays more than doubled in the first quarter compared with the same period in 2025. Orders placed after 6 pm on weekdays and weekends rose 57% over that time, while overall user growth increased 36%.The imbalance suggests a disproportionate rise in activity outside traditional work hours — a modern echo of the Pentagon Pizza Theory, the idea that spikes in late-night food orders signal government staff working overtime ahead of major events.The findings come as many companies have ramped up pressure on workers to adopt AI, including by tying usage to performance reviews that influence raises and promotions.Sharebite CEO Dilip Rao, a former Wall Street investment banker, told Business Insider he believes there's a connection between the spike in off-hours orders among his clients — several hundred companies of varying sizes mainly in tech and finance — and the AI boom."Based on data across our enterprise customer base over the past 12 to 18 months, we're not seeing people work less," he said. "If anything, activity is extending later into the day and into weekends."Rao's thesis aligns with a growing body of research showing that AI is stretching professionals' workloads. For example, a study published in the Harvard Business Review in February found that employees who use AI take on a broader ran...
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Pizza delivery monitor alerts to secret Israel attack
The timing of Israel's plan to attack Iran was top secret. But Washington pizza delivery trackers guessed something was up before the first bombs fell. About an hour before Iranian state TV first reported loud explosions in Tehran, pizza orders around the Pentagon went through the roof, according to a viral X account claiming to offer hot intel on late-night activity spikes at the US military ...
Google Takes A U-Turn From Pentagon Drone AI Plan: What Forced It Out ...
Technology & Science Google Takes A Big U-Turn From Pentagon Drone AI Plan: What Forced It Out Authored by: Govind Choudhary Updated Apr 29, 2026, 18:34 IST Google exits a $100M Pentagon drone AI project after an internal ethics review, highlighting rising tensions over military use of artificial intelligence.
