All Episodes

The State of Digital Report (2026) by QU Pos - Restaurants Are Done Experimenting. Now They Have to Execute

Will Synthetic Data Drive 80% of all Restaurant Decisions?

Great Buy or Great Sell? - Spyce heads to Wonder

Chat GPT & The End of Marketplaces?

Build vs Buy - The Question every Restaurant Exec must answer

Is First Party Ordering Losing the Fight?

Why Agile Marketing is the Essential Restaurant Skill in the Digital Age

Beware, Be Kind of Viral Influencers

AEO is the new SEO: How AI is rewriting the digital playbook

Who sells $1 Billion of Ads to Restaurants?

Rethinking the Restaurant Tech Stack

Will Autolane be the future for pickup?

Who wins the Super App Race? - with Guest Host Alayna Sullivan

From Smart Kitchens to Smart Menus with Guest Host Jason Berkowtiz

How will Tariffs affect Restaurants? - with Guest Host Deborah Matteliano from AWS

Is Bolt Coming for Uber in America? - with Guest Host Yaro Tsyhanenko

Are Restaurants Getting Tired of Tech? - with Guest Host Bernadette Heier

Just Eat, Just Sold - The Global Marketplace Consolidation Continues

Why does Yum want to own the tech stack - with guest host Cijoy Olickal

Our 100th episode, one host down but Chain of Thought Reasoning top of mind

The 2025 Prediction Show

Tony Delivers takes on the marketplaces

Data, Data Everywhere...Are Restaurants Finally Ready to Use It?

Are Restaurants Ready to Lead with AI?

Why Wonder Brought Grubhub

Doordash hits profitability while TGI's hits Ch. 11

What Can Restaurants Learn from Retail?

Is Delivery A Luxury? Or A Public Service?

How To Do Delivery Better - According To Your Customers

What Can Restaurants Learn from Travel Loyalty?

What will Brian Niccol take from Chipotle to Starbucks?

Will restaurant traffic ever grow again?

What can restaurants learn from the Crowdstrike crisis?

Will dashboard dining take off?

Will Local Kitchens succeed where others have failed?

Can music makeup the shortfall in restaurant sales in 2024?

Is restaurant delivery dying? It's for sure matured into the late stage partnerships world.

How will junk fee legislation affect food delivery?

Unlocking the Deficiencies of Delivery with Travis Kalanick at the Food on Demand conference

What can we learn from the struggles at Starbucks?

Why do guests prefer ordering direct for pickup?

Alternative Strategies to Growing your Digital Sales w/ James Buell from World of Beer Bar & Kitchen

Will driverless deliveries reduce prices?

Inclusive Innovation: Lauren Fernandez Ushers a New Era for Women and Minority Entrepreneurs in Dining

Will AI take 10%-40% of restaurant jobs?

The Restaurant of the Future - A Panel at Cornell University

Is 100% digital good for guests?

How to make Food Safety Easier through Tech - with Christine Schindler of Pathspot

Restaurants platforms - are chains going to follow the hotel model?

Sizzling Success: Culinary Content Giants Mike Duffy and Matt Holloway Serve Up a Digital Marketing Feast

How is spatial computing going to affect restaurants?

Revolutionizing Pizza Delivery: Stellar Pizza's Robotic Trucks Speed into the Future

Will the Rabbit R1 impact restaurants?

Holistic Technology: Build Digital Ecosystems for Growth - An Investor's Perspective with Anand Gala

Drone Delivery Is Happening Now

DISRUPT YOURSELF: Building the Future of Restaurants with Digitally Native Brands at Dom Food Group

What is set to have an amazing 2024?

Be Guest Centric: Shake Shack's Art of Merging Hospitality with Digital Integration

Masters of the F&B Universe (F&B tech leaders reflect on 2023 and forecast 2024)

Grow Topline: Virtual Restaurants and their untapped potential

The Ghost Kitchen Pivot, The Blurring of FoH & BoH and why should restaurants keep an eye on Walmart.

Optimizing Throughput: Unlocking Restaurant Complexities and Innovations with Robin Robison at Modern Market Eatery

Vegetarian Automation, The End of Lunch and Meyer’s not Qu’ing his investment into Qu

Mine Data: Mastering the Art of Data in the Restaurant Industry with Andrew Smith of Savory Fund

Unpacking DoorDash's Tipping Policy & Exploring Tech Advances in Wingstop and Starbucks

Convert Fans: Driving first party channel success with Slutty Vegan

Cyberattacks, a $14M investment into MoonBowls and which restaurants top the off-prem satisfaction report?

Be Found: Behind the Success of Home State on DoorDash

Wonder buys an apron, How Amazon's anti-trust suit affects restaurants and a $24M Blackbird Boost

What triggers loyal guests? Why stored value matters? And a Panda is getting sold in Asia

Voice AI, Mobile pick up lanes and getting Phygital with the Tillster Report

Generative AI cookies, Catering & Pizza Vending on the rise, and Deliveroo merges fulfilment channels

Dine in is out at McDonalds, The Losers of the Mr Beast Fight and GoTab adds $18M to the check

How inflation is impacting loyalty, Is big-tech stifling innovation and how is automation helping Sweetgreen see a 5 point hike in margins

Delivery Math, Avocado Peeling and Domino's join the marketplace party

Doordash unveils new app updates and pay changes

Nextbite’s next chapter, More layoffs in restaurant tech and Netflix has a pop-up in LA

The QR code is dead?, are Ghost Kitchens dying? And are Virtual Brands are on their last legs?

Underground deliveries, Sweetgreen's got Spycy and what is your loyalty program costing you?

Food on Demand takeaways, DoorDash price parity, and Meredith is heading to Hollywood

Dominos in car ordering, what stood out at RLC & NCR's cyber security attack

Tortoise robots, How Gen Z is eating and how do the delivery app algorithms work?

Pay with your Palm at Panera Bread, Customizable tech-forward stirfrying, and DoorDash accepting cash

BurgerFi's flying into new technology, Shef's nationwide expansion, and Olo's restaurant of the future

Photographic AI, Doordash results and Toast continues the acquisition spree

Couch Dining made easier with Roku & why independents should be excited for the Google/Toast deal

Starbucks doubling down on delivery, Smart cooler doors and pizza subscription vlogs

ChatGPT's role in restaurants, Chilis says no to robots and Wondering what Wonder does next?

Our Predictions for 2023 and how successful were our predictions from 2022?

A $1.2 Billion Gorilla, McDonalds app test results, and do higher tips equal to faster deliveries?

Domino's goes electric, Shake Shack's bullish on delivery and a billion guest sentiment data points

Burgerflation, Subway Smart Fridges and mixed news for marketplaces

Delco model adoption, Rain clouds at Cloud and an NFT Marketplace

Kroger Acquires Alberton's...What Does It Mean for Restaurants?

First Party Ordering improves the customer experience

Where automation really matters most - right now.

More virtual restaurants than physical?

Which restaurants are winning through the labor crisis?

Doordash into virtual brands, 7-Eleven acquires Skipcart and Wendy's slows Reef expansion

Secret Menus, Instagram Maps & Restaurant Hiring Slowdown?

Vertiports, Rest Tech Layoffs and Amazon back in the Restaurant Game?

30-minute free online ordering, QR Code Menus' future, and a restaurant lowering their prices?

Panera's digital-only restaurant, Underground delivery, and is sous vide the answer to virtual brand success.

Doordash data on 1PD adoption, what drives customers mad about delivery and a virtual brand marketplace.

Why 41% of independent restaurants are using virtual brands, False Bananas and food supply challenges, Toast trends and Wow Bao's Bao Bucks.

Chipotle, Chick Fil-A, and Panera sees 60-70% orders through their direct channel

Just Eat selling Grubhub, Choco funding Bored Apes and more

The investment in Food Tech keeps coming, Chipotle's use of RFIDs and the latest on labor

DineBrands believes in virtual brands, the new stands of the drive-thru, and the dangers of 'to-go' packaging

No More Restaurant Revitalization Fund and more

New home portals, Olo buys Omnivore, and the Toast CEO says restaurants can do more with less

Mondelez snack insights, Ronald McDonald NFTs, and DoorDash the bank

Domino's tipping their customers, Double Dash innovation, and Why does no-one talk about Google in the Restaurant ordering space

NextGen mailboxes, restaurant-in-a-box robotics, and is TikTok Kitchens over before it even began?

The ClusterTruck scaling strategy, GoPuff goes proprietary, and Muncho's 7-minute pizza delivery

Urbanization strategies, Beijing Olympic Robotics, and what intrigued us most in CES

Half of US Consumers are now using meal delivery and Domino's are helping independent restaurants

Our 2022 Predictions