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.

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👉 How a new hybrid 'high touch, high tech' guest experience is reducing turn times, superior hospitality, and putting control in the hands of guests. This innovative service model is already paying dividends 📈

👉 Why Anthony is so excited about personalization and what bartaco is doing with its data to supercharge growth. Anthony even shares one data-driven win that brought same store sales up by 6-7%. Dang! And hint: 🍚

👉 How bartaco is leveraging technology ranging from computer vision to AI-driven chargeback management to get a firmer grip on its business and drive efficiency and consistency across its operations. Shout outs go to Solink and Loop AI - Delivery Intelligence Platform!

➕ PLUS: Get Anthony's hot take on the best hospitality podcasts in the biz, including two that are standard fare for new employees onboarding at the company.

Thank you, Anthony! 🚀

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.

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👉 How 7Shifts emerged from Jordan helping his dad solve a scheduling problem he faced at his Quiznos locations and into an industry behemoth serving 50,000 restaurants today 😮 📈 😮

👉 Which 🪄 magic 🗝️ key the company relies on to amp its scale-up, and why it's so important for restaurant tech companies to remain hyper-focused in this area

👉 How and why 7shifts is running a total ⚙️in-house vertical integration⚙️ of the HR stack, including a payroll space dominated by giants like ADP. And why Jordan thinks it will work.

👉 How AI can and should be used WISELY to create schedules: lessons from the ground 📆 📆📆

Plus if you're ever in Saskatoon, Jordan has a great restaurant reco! Thank you for coming on, 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 🏆!

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👉 How a CDP bridges the gap between top-line sales data and loyalty platform data to help restaurant operators make smart decisions

👉 What Dave's Hot Chicken did to turn a cauliflower product launch into a smokin' hot menu update in more ways than one

👉 How Bikky uses a partner-first mindset in the loyalty game to create win-win-win outcomes for restaurants, guests, and ecosystem players

👉 Why Bikky's new Data Assistant is "ChatGPT on top of your Bikky data" and how that helps operators get answers to complex questions in minutes that would otherwise have taken hours or even weeks!

Shout outs to former guest Adam Kinsinger in this video. Also shout out to Leon Davoyan, EMBA for continuing to crush it over at Dave's!