Spotlight Interviews

Spotlight Interview: Jeffrey Kiesel, CEO at Restaurant Technologies

In this interview, we sit down with Jeffrey Kiesel, CEO at Restaurant Technologies, to discuss the challenges of filtering and changing oil in a busy kitchen and how Restaurant Technologies addresses these issues. Managing cooking […]

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Spotlight Interview: Zach Goldstein, CEO and Founder of Thanx

Zach Goldstein is the CEO and Founder of Thanx, a leading guest engagement and retention platform helping restaurants and retailers become more digitally agile to maximize customer lifetime value. Prior to earning his MBA from […]

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Spotlight Interview: James Passafaro, Chef and Cofounder, opsi

James Passafaro has been working in the hospitality industry for more than two decades as both a seasoned restaurant chef and a technology leader. His time in the kitchen has taken him from New Jersey […]

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Spotlight Interview: Casey Zenner, Vice President of Global Sales at Kount

Casey Zenner is a software sales veteran who, for the past six years, has been with Kount, a leading trust and safety technology solution provider. Kount, an Equifax company, uses data-driven decisions, advanced machine learning, […]

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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, […]