Bojangles Partners With GRUBBRR For Kiosks
Consider Bojangles sold on kiosks. At its recent annual franchisee conference, it announced that it is working with GRUBBRR to place Samsung Kiosks in its stores, following a pilot program in which the adoption of kiosks exceeded more than 50 percent in select...
WaBa Grill Turns To Bikky For Customer Data Analytics
WaBa Grill, a fast-casual chain known for charbroiled protein bowls, plates, and tacos, has announced a partnership with Bikky, a customer data platform (CDP) built for multi-unit restaurants. With Bikky, WaBa Grill says it can analyze the behavior of the 10 million...
API Provider MealMe Validates B2B Play With $8 Million Round
In 2019, Matthew Bouchner and Will Said, two college friends from the Atlanta area, burst through the doors with MealMe, a food-delivery price comparison aggregator. But aggregators quickly became ubiquitous. So MealMe pivoted. More than once. It started by adding a...
Could Voice AI Be Your Most Effective Drive-Thru Cashier?
Andrew Charles, a senior restaurant analyst at TD Cowen, has seen the future of drive-thru. Rather, he’s heard it. “Voice AI is showing a check lift where it is being used today,” he told the audience at the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference. “The reason...
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