Restaurant Tech Trends

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 check bump averages of 📈$1 per ...

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 discuss recent acquisitions includ...

😲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 mind on the role of kiosks for...

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 industry: where it makes sen...

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 President of one of the coolest fas...

🎤 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 to capture some thoughts on the in...

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 cloud👉 Which restaurant video use ...

Join us on today's Restaurant Tech Trends, where Pepper Lunch Restaurants' Troy Hooper sits down with our co-founder Justin Foster to discuss how technology enables guests, franchisees, and franchisors to create a winning formula for success. 📺Watch and Learn📺:👉 How technology is helping guests enjoy Japanese-style hospitality in North America while helping franchisees streamline operations👉 Which tech is leading to $5 ...

Another great interview with a senior tech leader in the restaurant space... today, Incept AI co-founder Justin Foster sits down with Krish Gopalakrishnan, fractional CTO and former SVP Digital Technology & Data at CAVA. Prior to that, Krish was also part of the core team working on the Panera Bread 2.0 transformation. He's been around the block and lays down his thoughts here. 📺Watch and learn📺:👉 Which digital technologies ...

On today's Restaurant Tech Trends, we sit down with ConnectedFresh Co-Founder and CEO Jake Simon to talk about all things connected sensors. Temperature, fill, leaks, cool down logs... we've got you covered. Jake covers:👉 How sensors extend far beyond temperature to help operators solve their most pressing problems👉 Why a connected sensor ecosystem dramatically improves logging, helping catch problems earlier while aiding...

PART 2 OF 2: Although we are in the restaurant #voiceai space ourselves, we believe in rising tides; that's why Incept AI's co-founder Justin Foster sat down with The Wendy's Company's Michael Chorey to talk about the success Wendy's is having with its #FreshAI rollout in partnership with Google. Without a doubt, Wendy's is a huge champion of voice AI. More importantly, this is a brand that champions authentic, meaningful, on-brand...

PART 1: Although we are in the restaurant #voiceAI space ourselves, we believe in rising tides; that's why Incept AI's co-founder Justin Foster sat down with The Wendy's Company's Michael Chorey to talk about the success Wendy's is having with its #FreshAI rollout in partnership with Google. Without a doubt, Wendy's is a huge champion of voice AI technology. More importantly, this is a brand that champions a...

🥂Congrats🥂 to the team at ClearCOGS for their seed raise announced today! Incept AI co-founder Justin Foster sat down and talked with ClearCOGS' co-founder & CEO Matt Wampler about the raise and some of the latest trends in restaurant tech on this latest episode of Restaurant Tech Trends. 📺Watch and learn📺:👉 How a restaurant operator conceived AI-driven forecasting👉 How tariffs could impact restaurants of all stripes👉 Th...

What does it take to make restaurant tech initiatives succeed? Wayne Davis shares his thoughts with Incept AI co-founder Justin Foster based on his time at Restaurant Brands International and Inspire, where he helped lead tech initiatives for both the Popeyes and Buffalo Wild Wings Brands. 📺Watch and learn📺:👉 How Wayne helped create two big tech wins at these iconic brands👉 The three-step process that anchors successful tech ro...

On today's Restaurant Tech Trends, Justin Foster connects with Ronald Dorsten, former Chief Operations Transformation Officer at 🥩Steak n Shake🍦and former Director of Worldwide Innovation at 🍔McDonald's!🍔 📺 Watch and Learn📺to discover:👉 How McDonald's leveraged investments in frontier technology to create lasting value for the chain👉 Why Ron thinks the industry should take a simpler approach to robotics in the b...

Phil Crawford is undeniably one of the 📈most influential figures📈 in restaurant & hospitality tech. 🍔 🤖 He is currently the Global F&B + Hospitality Head of Unified Commerce at Adyen, and previously was the CTO at CKE Restaurants, Inc. and CTO/CIO at Godiva Chocolatier, Shake Shack, and Yard House Restaurants. Lucky us: he joined Incept AI co-founder Justin Foster to share his thoughts on the technology and business str...

We could not be more 🙏thankful🙏 to be receiving advice from such a world-class CIO. In this interview, Donagh sits down with Incept AI co-founder Justin Foster to talk about the keys to driving digital transformation, de-risking technology rollouts, and the importance of focusing on frontline workers whenever tech is involved. In PART ONE of this two-part interview, 📺Watch and Learn:📺👉 The 3 constituencies that need value from...

Incept AI co-founder Justin Foster sits down with Evolvending's COO Neil Thompson. Evolvending is a COOL restaurant concept. Listen in as Neil throws down his perspective on why this nontraditional space was ripe for disruption. 📺Watch and learn📺:👉 Who in restaurants has the biggest impact on the guest experience👉 How Evolvending is changing the definition of what a restaurant is👉 How Neil sees tariffs manufacturers in the uns...

This is part 2 of this two-part interview where Donagh sits down with Incept AI co-founder Justin Foster.📺Watch and Learn:📺👉 Donagh's picks for the top technologies creating a positive impact on the restaurant guest experience today, and the reason he thinks these platforms work. 🖥️ 📱 🤖 👉 Why it is MISSION CRITICAL to pay just as much attention to how technology impacts your frontline workers as it does your guests 👉 Do...