Sponsors

INFI USA's innovative platform leverages AI to create seamless, intuitive self-service experiences across kiosks, tablets, and smartphones. By automating operations and enhancing consumer interactions, the company is redefining service models for retail businesses of all sizes—from local cafes to national restaurant chains. Restaurants using INFI experience increased order size, higher throughput, cost savings and a reduction in order wait time.

With Square powering your restaurant, stay in the flow of hospitality by connecting your favorite business tools. Get everything you need to turn diners into regulars, support your staff, and put profit in your pocket. Start with what you need today, and adjust as you grow.

DSA Signage is a U.S.-based manufacturing company specializing in the design and fabrication of high-quality drive-thru components, LED-illuminated displays, and digital signage solutions. With over 50 years of experience, we serve diverse industries, including fast-casual and quick-service restaurants, retail, sports, and more. Trusted by brands like Starbucks and Dave’s Hot Chicken, DSA delivers innovative solutions that enhance brand visibility and customer engagement. Proudly made in the USA.

Google's ChromeOS provides a secure, reliable, and centrally managed platform for modern kiosk and digital signage solutions. By leveraging cloud-based management and robust security features, ChromeOS empowers businesses to easily deploy, control, and maintain dynamic displays and interactive self-service stations across various industries. Optimize your customer experiences and operational efficiency with ChromeOS's affordable and versatile ecosystem.

HungerRush is a leading provider of integrated restaurant solutions that make it easier to delight guests, drive loyalty and manage restaurants from anywhere. OrderAI: Use AI-powered technology to accept orders and payments via phone or text. An easy and accurate way to receive orders straight into the POS, using the most convenient ordering channel available. 360 Marketing: Send automated email and SMS marketing campaigns that help your brand stand out and generate revenue.

Jeff’s Bagel Run began in a home kitchen and grew into a cult-followed brand serving fresh, scratch-made bagels baked throughout the day in small batches. With 15 stores open and 100+ more in development, we’re expanding through franchising to bring our crave-worthy bagels and warm guest experience to new communities nationwide.

Lunchbox is the premier online ordering system for Enterprise restaurant chains to grow their online presence. Lunchbox enables restaurant chains to take control of their digital growth strategy through its suite of products specializing in app and web ordering, guest loyalty, marketing, and third-party order aggregation to increase sales. The company has empowered over 4,000+ restaurant locations nationwide including Firehouse Subs, Walk-On's, Torchy’s Tacos, Taco Bueno, and Clean Juice.

The National Pork Board (NPB) was established by the 1985 Pork Act as one of 22 research and promotion boards that are overseen by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service to help strengthen the future of American agriculture. Money that pork producers pay into the Pork Checkoff is used by the National Pork Board to fund research, promotion, and education to strengthen the pork industry and expand markets for pork.

Ovation is a guest experience platform for multi-unit restaurants that starts with a 2-question survey to drive revenue, streamline guest recovery, and easily improve operations. Thousands of restaurants, including leading brands like Big Chicken, MOOYAH, and Friendly’s, are using Ovation to get more feedback through frictionless surveys, recover guests through real-time communication, boost their online reputations, and improve through AI-driven insights.

At PAR Technology, we power restaurants with integrated solutions from POS to loyalty, ordering, payments, operations, and hardware all designed to work better together. Backed by 40+ years of experience, we help brands streamline operations, elevate guest experiences, and drive growth. Our connected approach ensures every product, partnership, and integration delivers real impact across the restaurant ecosystem.

Restroworks is a leading cloud-based restaurant technology platform powering over 25,000 restaurants worldwide. It offers a unified solution for Front-of-House (FOH), Back-of-House (BOH), Integrations, Analytics, and Digital Ordering. For more information, visit www.restroworks.com.

Trabon is a leading restaurant industry technology solutions and services company that serves more than 80 national restaurant brands spanning QSR/fast casual to fine dining. Since 1975, Trabon has been helping brands organize, manage, and publish their complex menu and marketing content. MenuNet®, Trabon’s menu management and publishing platform, enables location-specific menus and publishing across brand channels and the digital ecosystem.

Upside, the largest digital food and fuel marketplace in the U.S., drives nearby users on-site to generate new profit for its partners. Tens of thousands of restaurants use Upside to win new customers and repeat visits.

Workstream is the leading HR, Payroll, and Hiring platform for the hourly workforce. Its smart technology streamlines HR tasks so franchise and business owners can move fast, reduce labor costs, and simplify operations—all in one place. 46 of the top 50 quick-service restaurant brands—including Burger King, Jimmy John’s, Taco Bell—rely on Workstream to hire, retain, and pay their teams.

Consolidated Concepts optimizes the foodservice supply chain and provides savings and solutions for multi-unit restaurants and their partners. Clients leverage our contract negotiation, spend management, and supply chain expertise to reduce costs and gain valuable insights into their business. Our data and technology are designed to identify areas where emerging, growing, and established restaurants may unlock additional opportunities to save money and increase profitability.

Datawrkz empowers the food service industry with fuss-free solutions that drive advertising results across Connected TV, Display, Search, Social, Audio, Hyperlocal and Native advertising platforms. With expertise hard-won from a large number of successful projects delivered for full-service, fast-casual, and quick-service restaurants, we get the industry. From increase in revenue to new store openings to customer loyalty, we deliver extraordinary bottom-line outcomes, no matter your advertising objective.

Entegra is a supply chain and procurement support company that helps clients improve profitability, reduce costs, and optimize operations. We leverage $42 billion in purchasing power, supply chain experts, and culinary advisory services to deliver results.

Xenia is a modern app helping frontline teams through the c-suite drive operational excellence. Xenia unifies daily task management, SOPs, audits, food safety, facilities management, etc. – specifically designed for multi-location restaurants. Thousands of restaurants rely on Xenia, including: Slim Chickens, Mezeh, Prince St. Pizza, Pepper Lunch, Hillstone, Parker Hospitality, Newk's, etc.

Win the war for talent with a platform that measurably improves your employee’s financial wellbeing. By reducing financial stress in the workplace, ZayZoon makes employees happier, more productive and likelier to stick around. When workers know you've got their back, they'll give you their best. ZayZoon's financial empowerment platform helps you prioritize employee financial wellbeing and prove you care.

Bikky is a customer data platform for multi-location restaurants. We help brands like Dave's Hot Chicken, Krystal, and Eggs Up Grill use customer data to understand the success of every marketing, menu, and operational decision. Brands on Bikky see double-digit same store sales increases after launch, driven by better decisions that improve profitability and the customer experience.

Botrista provides automated craft beverage solutions to foodservice operators. Operators can increase ticket size and add a new beverage category to their menu without the operational complexities. The DrinkBot platform allows operators to subscribe to world-class quality from the leading ingredient manufacturers that they partner with. The vision is to make any staff member a professional barista or bartender with a DrinkBot.

Continental Cup Company provides high-quality, SQF Certified custom printed and stock paper cold cups, PET lids, and popcorn tubs. We offer fast turnaround, aggressive pricing, and high on-time delivery to help customers improve profitability.

Cumberland Permit Strategy Group is your full-service development co-pilot, guiding brands from first napkin sketch to certificate of occupancy. We bundle permitting, due diligence, compliance review and construction coordination, cutting red tape with proprietary AI that accelerates plan checks and research by weeks—keeping fast-casual ventures truly fast so you open doors sooner.

meez is the smart recipe management tool for culinary organizations focused on growth and scaling their business. Limit how much time you spend on staff training, know the profitability of each dish, optimize your costs, and reduce food waste with features like real-time menu engineering, inventory management, laser accurate food costing, recipe organization and scaling. Drive consistency, Increase accuracy and Boost Profitability with meez.

Momos is the one stop shop for communicating with your customers across your customer feedback, engagement, and support. Momos ties into your online reviews, 3rd party delivery, social media platforms, surveys, and support systems to make communicating, understanding, supporting, and recovering your guests easier.

Reality Based Group is a customer experience firm, specializing in mystery shopping services, specifically video mystery shopping, to help clients improve their CX and drive revenue. With GameFilm® for Business, our tech-enable mystery shopping, you see exactly what your customer sees and experience exactly what your customer experiences. No other tool is more valuable for business owners to improve their customer experience by coaching to objective and quantitative results.

RocketBox's innovative logistics focused Kitchen Display System (KDS) revolutionizes restaurant kitchens by organizing and prioritizing orders in real-time, optimising prep times, service types, and delivery channels to streamline operations and enhance customer satisfaction.

SocialCrowd is the first platform that boosts sales and employee retention by tracking, reminding, and rewarding employees automatically...so managers can save time and stay focused!

Foodbuy is the largest procurement services /group purchasing organization, designed to provide you with flexible programs, financial transparency, and on-demand procurement expertise. Our purchasing power extends to food, beverages, services, equipment & supplies. We understand every restaurant’s needs vary. As your strategic purchasing partner, we can customize our services to meet your needs. Our program is designed to help operators reduce purchasing costs while increasing net revenue.

Greyston Bakery bakes rich, fudgy brownies and blondies using Fairtrade cocoa and pure cane sugar. Through Open Hiring®, we offer jobs without resumes or interviews. Our mission-driven, individually-wrapped treats are so good, Ben & Jerry’s features our brownies in their ice cream. Awesomely good and baked with purpose.

KPS Commercial Construction is a nationwide general contractor and one of America’s leaders specializing in new rollouts and remodels of multi-site Fast Casual locations. “Building on a Foundation of Trust” is how we earn long-term business relationships. We have experience in all aspects of Fast Casual construction and our total-solutions approach guarantees quality and consistency.

PepsiCo Foodservice leverages the best of PepsiCo to drive what is next with food and beverage experiences. We strive to build a competitive advantage for our customers with proprietary consumer insights, best-in-class service and equipment, world-class marketing, and an unparalleled portfolio led by Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Lipton Iced Tea, Aquafina, Lay’s, Doritos, Gatorade, Quaker, and Tropicana.

At SVS, our mission is to help clients measurably grow their sales by creating best-in-class gift card, promotions, and loyalty programs. We focus on the consumer experience first, backed by technology that creates fast, secure consumer interactions while providing our clients with the flexibility they need to create on-brand experiences. Our world-class platform benefits from our 30+ years of experience in the gift card space, managing programs for over 850 marquee brands around the world.

Fast Casual is the global online leader for news, analysis, blogs and research in the worldwide fast casual restaurant industry.

Food Truck Operator was launched in 2017 to meet the needs of the thriving food truck industry. The site covers industry trends and news, profiles business owners, and explores the technologies and tools available to help operators grow their businesses.

Pizza Marketplace is the premier online destination for C-level pizza executive leadership seeking cutting-edge intelligence for their multi-unit restaurant concepts.

QSRweb delivers fast-breaking news, features and analysis on the quick-service restaurant industry.

The Restaurant Catering Workshop is a hands-on event that equips you with the tools and strategies needed to build a winning catering operation. Learn from industry experts how to choose the right platforms and seamlessly integrate them into your business model for maximum impact. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to refine your catering game, this workshop is your key to success.

Rewards That Matter brings awareness to consumers of the hundreds of loyalty programs available across markets in restaurants, retail, travel, banking, entertainment and more. The site offers insight on loyalty program news and rewards program updates. Brands can submit their loyalty programs for inclusion on RewardsThatMatter.com via a convenient online form.