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Hosted by Justin Foster · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 72 episodes
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On Restaurant Tech Trends, we interview movers and shakers in the restaurant industry to identify how technology is changing the way multi-unit restaurants work.
Justin Foster hosts Restaurant Tech Trends, a technology show with 72 episodes published.
He doesn't golf... but he rebuilt the tech behind Topgolf! Today on Restaurant Tech Trends I sit down with Ted Hardy, Senior Director of Technology Transformation at Topgolf - the entertainment destination where gameplay
Tech debt isn't a liability to wipe out. It's leverage to manage - like debt on a balance sheet. Too much and you're bankrupt; too little and you can't move. That's the idea Dr. Ken Knapton literally wrote the book on. T
What kind of restaurant brand closes every location at 2:30 on purpose? The kind that wants its people home for dinner. Today on Restaurant Tech Trends I sit down with Marita Swift CFE , VP of Strategic Growth at The Big
"You can't put ketchup on shawarma" became a global rallying cry, and the brand behind it is now blitzing past 50 locations. Today on Restaurant Tech Trends I sit down with Andrew Kirkwood, VP of Technology at Shelby's L
She showed up in Vegas with $800, slept on a mattress off the back of a truck, and turned a theater degree into one of the sharpest marketing tech voices in restaurants. Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down w
The dirtiest corner of any restaurant tells you everything about how it's run, and Kimmie Dunlay has built a career on the infrastructure nobody sees to keep 'em clean. Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down wi
Eric Knott spent a decade as COO of PDQ scaling 40+ stores from Tampa to New York, and he'll be the first to tell you he learned as much from what went wrong as what went right. Now CEO of Kansas City's Tiki Taco, he joi
On today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends we go inside the wild world of virtual brands with Adam Robin, Chief Operating Officer at Virtual Dining Concepts: the company behind some of the most talked-about names out there,
Own the guest relationship or get rented out to the highest bidder. That's part of what we dive into on today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends. On this episode I sit down with Zach Goldstein, Founder & CEO of Thanx. Zach h
Brilliant biscuits + the boring work that builds a brand? Yes, please. Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I'm talking with Amanda Kahalehoe, COO of Vicious Biscuit, the Southern comfort breakfast and brunch concept sc
On today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sat down with Atul Sood, Fractional Chief Business Officer at Curry Up Now. Atul co-founded Kitchen United as its first employee, raised over $100M, struck the Kroger deal that p
This might be the coolest concept I've ever had on the show. On today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down with Adrian Deasy , Founder & CEO of Octane Coffee , the world's first fully automated, employee-free drive-
🥣 FROM WALL STREET TO HEALTHY BOWLS 📈🥭 Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down with Andrew Pudalov , Founder & CEO of Rush Bowls . After 15 years trading derivatives at firms like Morgan Stanley, Andrew walke
🍩 DONUT WASTE: $3M PROBLEM, MEET YOUR MATCH 🍩 Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I'm joined by Margo Hughes, Executive Director of Business Services at Bluemont Group, a Dunkin' franchisee with ~100 locations across
🏢 FROM THE FLOOR TO THE BACK OFFICE 🏢 On today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down with David Cantu, CEO of Craftable and former co-founder of HotSchedules. David started on the floor at Outback Steakhouse and PF
🚀🍪🌙 WARM COOKIES AT 2AM?! 🚀🍪🌙 On today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down with Rachard Dennis, SVP of Operations at Insomnia Cookies, the late-night delivery-first brand delivering warm cookies to your door
🍽️ 40 years in restaurants. 14 on the ops floor before crossing over to tech. Today's guest has seen it all... and she's got the receipts. 🧾 Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down with Kathy Alcaras, a multi-
🍟 THE GOLDEN ARCHES PULLED UP TO THE PODCAST 🍟 Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down with Zachary Richard, Senior Director of Data Science at McDonald's. If you've ever wondered what it looks like when the w
Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down with Amber Trendell, Senior Director of Strategy for Restaurants at Oracle — someone who lives at the intersection of restaurant operations and enterprise technology every
🍳 AI IN THE KITCHEN — FOR REAL THIS TIME 🤖 Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down with Kenneth Hallwachs, Head of Customer at PreciTaste — one of the most exciting back-of-house AI companies in the game right
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Danny Klein
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Ted Hardy
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Kimmie Dunlay
Kept Companies
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Margo Hughes
Bluemont Group
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David Cantu
Craftable
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Ra'Chard Dennis
Insomnia Cookies
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Zachary Richard
McDonald's
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Kenneth Hallwachs
PreciTaste
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Amar Narain
Pizza Pizza Limited
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Anthony Presley
TimeForge
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