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Spotlight Interview: Dave Dempsey, Founder and CEO of Hyer

According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report, hospitality industry employment remains below its pre-pandemic February 2020 level by 402,000 jobs, or 2.4%, with many restaurants continuing to struggle to find qualified staff. To […]

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Spotlight Interview: Carlos Anchia, Cofounder and CEO of Plainsight

Carlos Anchia is the Cofounder and CEO at Plainsight, an end-to-end technology platform that provides restaurants with new ways to analyze, share, and benefit from real-time visual data and actionable insights. Prior to Plainsight, he […]

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Spotlight Interview: Sterling Douglass, Cofounder and CEO of Chowly

Chowly, a solution provider that enables restaurants to seamlessly integrate delivery orders and manage all third-party menus directly through their POS systems, has a strong track record of product innovation. Last month, for example, Chowly […]

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Spotlight Interview: Bud Homeyer, Chief Operations Officer at Interface Systems

Bud Homeyer is Chief Operations Officer at Interface Systems, a leading managed services provider offering physical security, network, voice and business intelligence solutions. He leads all operations functions, including customer support, service delivery, supply chain, […]

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Spotlight Interview: Robert Morcos, Founder and CEO of Social Mobile

Mobility solutions provider Social Mobile offers services critical to restaurants and other organizations looking to bring to market innovative mobile products. The company was recently named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America, […]

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Spotlight Interview: Josh Sharkey, Founder and CEO of meez

Restaurant technology solution provider meez this month closed a $11.5 million Series A funding round to accelerate growth for its first-of-its-kind digital professional recipe tool. A professional chef, Sharkey, who serves as CEO of meez, […]

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Spotlight Interview: Na’ama Moran, CEO and Co-Founder, Cheetah

A technology supply chain company operating a wholesale food and restaurant supplies marketplace, Cheetah has maintained a relatively low profile since its founding in 2015. That, however, is now changing with the company’s rapid growth […]

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Spotlight Interview: Meredith Sandland, CEO and Co-Founder, Empower Delivery

Restaurant veteran and digital foodservice expert Meredith Sandland is the CEO and Co-Founder of restaurant technology startup Empower Delivery. Previously, she created and drove disruptive growth as Chief Development Officer at Taco Bell, America’s largest Mexican-inspired […]

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Spotlight Interview: Bo Davis, Cofounder and CEO of MarginEdge

Bo Davis, who serves as CEO of leading restaurant management platform MarginEdge, which he cofounded in 2015, has extensive experience as both a restaurateur and a restaurant technology solution. Prior to launching MarginEdge, he was […]

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Spotlight Interview: Bill Bellissimo, Founder and CEO of CrunchTime

Bill Bellissimo is the Founder and CEO of CrunchTime! Information Systems, a back-of-house restaurant operations platform focused on helping restaurant chains of all sizes make timely, fact-based decisions to reduce food costs, drive labor efficiencies […]