Restaurant Tech Trends

🚀TODAY on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends we sit down with Greg Zamfotis, Founder of Gregorys Coffee — a specialty coffee brand that’s grown to 50+ locations while staying laser-focused on tech, unit economics, and coffee as a true social connector. ☕ 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 Why Gregorys partnered with Craveworthy Brands to accelerate franchising, and how their shared-services model is helping fuel...

🚀 New episode drop on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends! Incept AI co-founder Justin Foster sat down with John Schattinger , VP Technology at Robeks , a fast-growing smoothie and juice brand turning tech into throughput across POS, loyalty, digital, and ops.  📺WATCH AND LEARN📺  👉 Why Robeks moved to a new POS solution and how it unlocked easier integrations and faster rollouts with partners.  👉 Ho...

🚀 On TODAY’S 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends we're talking scale, edge, and resilience with THE ONE AND ONLY Niko Papademetriou, Co-Founder & SVP Sales & Business Development at Qu, a company that is lighting the enterprise restaurant POS space - and *beyond* - see what I did there - ON FIRE 🔥🔥🔥 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 Why 'edge' matters in restaurants: how Qu’s Qube A/E/IQ pla...

Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends we’re talking brunch tech with Mark W. Landes , VP Technology at Snooze AM Eatery: the better-for-you brunch brand known for craveable pancakes, bright dining rooms, and waitlists that move because the tech actually WORKS. 🌞🥞🥂 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 How Snooze’s Toast POS rollout + handhelds unlocked more table time for Snoozers and gave guests faster, more...

“It’s more than just a restaurant. It’s a platform.” - Jason Rusk , EVP of Restaurant Operations at Wonder Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends, Jason joins Incept AI co-founder Justin Foster and breaks down how Wonder is scaling a vertically integrated mealtime platform after a major raise, a brand refresh, and rapid expansion toward 90+ locations. 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 The playbook to hit ~90...

🏔️"We are at the base camp of Mount Everest and have a beautiful climb ahead of us."🏔️ Today 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends welcomes a true industry heavyweight: Noah Glass, Founder & CEO at Olo. 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 How Noah sees digital hospitality breaking out of the app and touching 100% of transactions with Olo Pay and POS-linked data, so operators can personalize even in drive-...

Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down with Bill Lindsey , Partner & Co-Founder at COGS-Well . Bill’s a 🏢builder🏢 and a TRUE entrepreneur: cash flow positive from day one and on his fifth back-office product for restaurants. Working with his team, Bill's shipping fixes for the messy parts of managing restaurant inventory - and helping operators see value fast. 🏎️ On a personal...

🧠 RESTAURANT INDUSTRY NERD ALERT 🚨 My absolute favorite kind of guest - a self-described restaurant industry nerd. Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends we’re talking with Joseph Ortiz , President & COO at Farmer Boys , the Southern California-based fast casual chain known for farm-fresh burgers and all-day breakfast. YUM. 🌅🍔🥓 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 How Farmer Boys cut its drive-thru time...

TODAY on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends we sit down with Tim Newton, Chief Technology Officer at Long John Silver’s. With nearly three decades of restaurant tech leadership (Papa John’s, Fat Tuesday, Waitr, now LJS), Tim is leading a modernization push at one of America’s most iconic seafood brands. 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 How Tim and team are rolling out kiosks across 220+ corporate-owned restaurant...

This may very well be my favorite 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends podcast episode to date. Not because I have such immense respect for David Greschler, CEO and Co-Founder of NomadGo. Nor because his interview was flawless (it was). It's because I'm elated for the NomadGo team to see how all their hard behind-the-scenes work culminated in yesterday's announcement that Starbucks is rolling NomadGo's te...

The ⚾HEAVY HITTERS⚾ keep on dishing knowledge on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends. Today, Deliverect President, Americas Justin Falciola (who also happens to be the former SVP Insights & Technology at Papa Johns and former CTO CKE Restaurants, Inc.) comes on to discuss how this restaurant tech heavyweight plans to crush it in North America and LATAM.📺WATCH AND LEARN📺👉 Why Justin made the leap...

We recently had the opportunity to connect with Momos ' Co-Founder and CEO Sai Alluri and on today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends Sai shares a bit about the company's evolution and how he sees AI-powering the future of growth in his space. This is one you don't want to miss! 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 Learn about Momos' journey from enabling 3PD / reviews for restaurants, to aggregating feedback acros...

This interview is made us hungry for tacos! Tacos from bartaco more specifically. With AUVs well over $5M and an expanding footprint, this chain is onto something big. Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends we sat down with bartaco CEO and President Anthony Valletta to uncover how tech is driving this brand into the future. 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 How a new hybrid 'high touch, high tech' gue...

UN-BELIEVE-ABLE guest! On today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends we are discussing restaurant labor. Scheduling, time-tracking, payroll, and beyond. Jordan Boesch, Founder/CEO of restaurant tech heavyweight 7shifts is with us. With $128M raised to date, this company is redefining the future of how restaurant operators manage and excel at HR. 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 How 7Shifts emerged from Jordan...

Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends we're getting into CDP-land with Bikky Co-Founder & CEO Abhinav Kapur ! Abhinav is at the forefront of this rapidly evolving space and on this episode he shares lots of helpful, real-life examples of how CDP tech can help restaurant operators increase guest visit frequency while goosing sales of 🍕menu winners 🏆! 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 How a CDP bridg...

On today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends we're talking about NEXT-GEN LOYALTY. Spendgo 's VP Sales & GTM Strategy Neal Dubisky shares loads of 🪙nuggets🪙on what it takes to drive guest loyalty and acquisition in today's hyper-competitive QSR market. I love Neal's experience, honesty, energy, and perspective. You don't want to miss this. 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 Why Neal s...

It's time for the newest 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends! If you want to hear from one of the BEST pizza operators we've ever met, don't miss this. 🍕🍁Pizza Hotline's🍁🍕 President Antonio Cianflone shares his secrets to achieving longevity and growth in this cutthroat space. Culture, operations, and leaning into tech are 🗝️ 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 What Pizza Hotline's secret weap...

TODAY on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends, we chat with Jordan Lomas , former SVP Information Technology at Darden . It's hard to encapsulate the key tech learnings from a storied 18 year run at one of the restaurant industry's most iconic companies in a 15-minute podcast, but we gave it a go. 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 What best practices and leadership principles Jordan used to guide Darden'...

On today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends, we sit down with WaBa Grill Franchise Corp. 's Sr. Director of Technology Adam Kinsinger to uncover his secrets to tech success at two fast-growing brands (the other being Egg Tuck ). 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 Which investments Adam made to increase digital order mix from 10% in 2020 to 37% at the close of 2024 🤑 🤑🤑 👉 Which technology is creating c...

Next up on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends, we get schooled by Restaurant PE LEGEND Josh Boshard at Savory Fund as we discuss Savory's recent acquisitions and its philosophy around scaling restaurant brands - plus the role of tech in bringing their portco's to the next level. 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺👉 Why having the right foundational tech is so important to reaching the next level of scaling: we...

😲INCREDIBLE!😲 Leon Davoyan, EMBA , the Chief Technology Officer of Dave's Hot Chicken sits down with our own Justin Foster to discuss how he's using technology to electrify growth at arguably the QSR industry's hottest brand. 📺Watch and learn📺: 👉 How Leon sees Roark Capital 's $1B acquisition impacting the brand and its tech plans moving forward 👉 Why and how Leon changed his...

At long last, we sat down with Ovation Founder and CEO 🍽️Zack Oates🍕on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends! Zack is one of the people we admire most in this industry, and he can teach us all a thing or two about how to maximize restaurant guest satisfaction. 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 The secret to making long-form guest satisfaction surveys work. 👉 Zack's perspective on platform consolidation in the i...

When we think of 💪strength💪in the restaurant tech world, Costa Vida, Fresh Mexican Grill President Wade Allen comes to mind! Dedicated to innovation and leading by example, Wade is propelling this fast-casual fresh-mex leader to new heights. Our co-founder Justin Foster sat down with him to catch up on the latest. 📺Watch and learn:📺👉 How Wade made the leap from senior restaurant tech exec to...

🎤 Restaurant Voice AI thought leadership knowledge drop!🎤 Here's my reaction to the interview with Wendy's Michael Chorey that was posted this morning (the interview is split into 2 parts, part 1 here: https://lnkd.in/g2MTxTp9 and part 2 here: https://lnkd.in/gjTgQtD2 )We focused on Wendy's deployment of FreshAI, a hashtag#voiceAI system that takes drive-thru orders. 🚗 🤖 🍔Easier t...

On today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends, we sit down with Savi Co-Founder & CEO Brock Weeks to discuss the future of video and video AI technology in restaurants. 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺👉 Why Brock thinks of video as a platform and not a collection of disjointed problems that need solving - this is NOT the traditional way of thinking👉 What's driving restaurant video from the edge to the...