Casey Terrell, Blaze Pizza
VP of Marketing, Blaze Pizza Casey Terrell is a seasoned marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in marketing, and the food and beverage industry. He currently serves as the Vice President of Marketing at Blaze Pizza, where he leads brand strategy and...Shiv Adhiappan, Yum! Brands
VP, Global Reliability & Engineering Operations, Yum! Brands Shiv Adhiappan is the VP of Global Site Reliability & Engineering Operations at Yum Brands, where he spearheads technology innovation across the company’s iconic restaurant chains including...
Steve Ells’ Startup Kernel Axes Robots and Rebrands
Chipotle founder Steve Ells is no stranger to shaking things up. His latest venture, Kernel Foods, has undergone a major makeover. Now rebranded as Counter Service, the New York-based startup has shifted gears to an artisanal, “mostly sandwich” concept. The original...
Papa Johns Partners With Google Cloud To Elevate Ordering
Papa Johns is partnering with Google Cloud for AI integration and to upgrade its customer experience. And it means business with it. It launched PJX, an internal innovation team, specifically to leverage Google Cloud’s AI, data analytics and machine-learning...
DoorDash Offers AI Tools To Operators For Image and Menu Optimization
DoorDash is known for third-party delivery but that’s not all it offers to operators. It’s recently announced a suite of AI-powered tools for assistance with photos and menu optimization. The tools include an AI-powered camera, which enables restaurants to capture...
Sauce Adds a Customer Retention Module To Its White-Label Delivery Platform
There is a science to running effective customer-retention programs. Do it right and loyalty results. Do it wrong and apathy results. Yet many operators don’t have the time or training to do it well. Li-ran Navon, the CEO and founder of Sauce, known for its...Nihad Rahman, ezCater
CEO, ezCater Nihad brings nearly two decades of finance and banking experience from General Electric and JP Morgan Chase. Prior to ezCater, Nihad covered emerging and established technology companies at JP Morgan’s Commercial Bank. He also led finance teams across the...Cindy Klein Roche, ezCater
Chief Marketing Officer, ezCater Cindy has spent over 25 years transforming brands and driving growth for technology and Fortune 1000 companies. She is relentless in putting the customer first, and identifying metrics-based solutions that satisfy both customer and...Korey Love Taylor, Taco John’s International
Director of Digital Engagement, Taco John’s International For 10 years, Korey has been a noteworthy leader and industry recognized strategist in the Digital Marketing, Mobile App & Loyalty space. She launched her career at NASCAR Digital Media, where she...
Outstanding Operators
Food On Demand Outstanding Operators features restaurant brands with innovative operations that are taking creative paths to success with delivery and all things off-premises.