FAB: Restaurant technology resources
More about all the stuff we talked about onstage (thanks for coming!)
Hi, FAB!
It was great to see you first thing Monday morning to talk about the current and future restaurant technology landscape.
Here are a few resources we discussed. Please contact me with thoughts / feedback / ideas / just to say hello.
Panelists:
Kristen Hawley, Expedite
Kelly Valentine, Femmes in Food
Elizabeth Tilton, Oyster Sunday
Sylvie Gabriele, Love and Salt
What’s what in restaurant technology
Restaurant Tech Ecosystem 2023
This is the most current iteration of the “tech wheel” containing nearly every prominent company in each facet of restaurant technology. It’s created by Brita Rosenheim (Vita Vera Ventures) in partnership with TechTable.
Fun with ChatGPT
Kelly Valentine fed some job description prompts into ChatGPT. Here’s how they turned out:
More about AI from Expedite:
AI is not a human: an interview with Rachael Nemeth, Opus co-founder and CEO
Gen Z will call the restaurant: New voice chatbots and artificial intelligence could make the exchange less painful
Fake food on the real menu: The danger and risk of generating menu photos
DoorDash posts record numbers, Wall St. asks about AI: With bonus hilarious image
“Your food photos suck” — Meta’s AI, probably
Technology platforms we mentioned:
Toast - POS
Square - POS
SpotOn - POS
SevenRooms - reservations and CRM
Bikky - Customer data platform for multi-unit businesses
Opus Training - mobile training
Blackbird - loyalty from Resy founder Ben Leventhal