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Restaurant Technology is a weekly business news series hosted by Cali BBQ Media Founder Shawn Walchef. Keep up to date on the latest stories, insights, and thought leadership in the modern restaurant technology landscape. restauranttechnology.substack.com
Cali BBQ Media hosts Restaurant Technology Podcast, a technology show with 49 episodes published.
PRODUCTS DISCUSSED: * Toast IQ - learn more * Toast IQ Grow - learn more * Toast Seamless Checkout - learn more * Toast Finance - learn more When I talk to product innovators and executive leadership to break down the la
Tips for Surviving The Restaurant Show I caught up with our good friend Michael Ungaro from San Pedro Fish Market (Kings of Fish Media) right as the Show opened to get his top tips for navigating the weekend: * Get your
The National Restaurant Show is our industry’s World Cup. But you don’t win the World Cup by sitting in the nosebleeds. To win in the restaurant industry in 2026, you need to be on the pitch with the builders, the dreame
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The restaurants who are stuck in the past are DOA. If you aren’t building your business like Amazon did — leveraging technology, storytelling, and logistics — you’re going to struggle to survive in 2026 and beyond. I’ve
I didn’t bring my family to Times Square just for a billboard. I brought my wife and kids because this business costs something important: Late nights, missed weekends, and holidays that don’t feel like holidays. For the
Influential people have told me for years that I needed to get to Phoenix for the Restaurant Leadership Conference (RLC). Now that I’m here at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge for the Informa event’s 25th anniversary, I see
To any operator reading this. We got into this business praying for busy. Not the slow nights, not the empty dining rooms. We dreamed about the chaos. The tickets stacking, the line out the door, the kind of busy that te
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TIMES SQUARE MEET-UP DATE: Thursday, April 16thTIME: 10:30am (Meet-Up) ; 11:15-11:20am (Toast Billboard Goes Live)WHERE: 47th St. and 7th Avenue in Times Square NYCONLINE: Watch LIVE right here on Substack as it happens
“Stay curious, get involved, and ask for help.” These are the three lessons my grandfather taught me, and they guide every move we make at Cali BBQ Media. We just wrapped up an incredible experience at the Restaurant Fra
In this Restaurant Tech Tour, we visited James Petrakis at his Ravenous Pig in Florida to discuss the strategic tech stack that transformed a “survival-mode” startup into a hospitality group that now includes The Polite
At a Glance: How Levain Bakery Powered Their 19-Location Expansion * Tech Vision: CTO Gustavo Cardona, a former NASA data analyst applied an “engineer’s point of view” to the cookie business. * Visibility Boost: A partne
The US food system has a staggering logistical failure: while 60+ million tons of food are tossed into landfills each year, millions of Americans still face food insecurity. I wanted to introduce you to Copia, a technolo
TECH MENTIONED: * Toast Marketing — Retargeting and Loyalty * Marqii — One-Stop Listing Management * Google Business Profile — Local Search Visibility * Palona.ai — AI Voice Automation * Ovation — Real-Time Guest Feedbac
If you run a restaurant, you are in the business of storytelling. And your menu is one of the most important stories you tell. Most owners treat their menu as a simple list of food and prices, but in reality, your menu s
Restaurants don’t fail because of the food. They fail because of broken systems. For years, the industry accepted a hard truth: to be successful, you had to be the glue holding a fractured business together. That meant w
Opening day is more than a moment — it’s a story you’ll be telling for a lifetime. And in today’s restaurant landscape, your restaurant’s story begins long before guests walk through your doors. Whether you’re launching
I learned a lot in 2025. I’ll learn even more in 2026. As we move into the New Year, the biggest lesson I’ve taken from the past groundbreaking year at Cali BBQ Media is that technology moves fast, but the soul of what w
* Why instant payouts are actually a hospitality tool. Chef Bert reveals that removing the friction of waiting for tips doesn’t just improve morale, it eliminates the “head worries” and payout disputes that distract staf
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