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7shifts is a team management tool for restaurants. It gives insights into the information you need to build engaged teams and profitable restaurants. The intuitive platform provides oversight into every location in one spot and makes your team’s lives easier with easy schedule-making, communication, and labour tracking. Track trends and catch problems before they get out of hand. Loved by restauranteurs and operators, 7shifts makes it easy to build successful restaurants without adding friction.
Technology is complex, and transformation is fast. But when it comes to connectivity and communication, AT&T Business has you covered. We combine our leading portfolio with continuous innovation and investment in our networks to give you what you need to move your business forward. With experience across industries, we understand your business demands and deliver highly secure solutions. From 5G to fiber, edge to cloud, we help you tackle todays’ challenges and seize tomorrow’s opportunities.
Leasecake is the operating system for location management. As the sole source of truth for all lease and location information, Leasecake helps business owners stay on top of time-sensitive, mission-critical events. With remote access and team sharing, multi-location operators save time, minimize risk, and better manage their growth.
Mad Mobile allows companies to reimagine how they connect with customers. Our technologies enable top restaurants to achieve mobility with their existing systems to increase sales and digitize the guest experience. Mad Mobile is Apple and Salesforce’s go-to-market partner.
Of all things a company can supply none is more important than trust. This is evident at the Middleby Corporation by our strong relationship with customers, suppliers, shareholders, and employees. Trust is why we’re the world leader in commercial cooking equipment. We perpetually “disrupt” our industry with advanced cooking innovations that bring speed, energy saving and green benefits to commercial kitchens.
PAR Punchh is a restaurant loyalty platform designed to give operators streamlined control over incentives, marketing, and promotions that respond in real time and scale up to any situation, keeping guests engaged and coming back to visit. PAR Punchh is part of PAR Technology’s end-to-end restaurant management solutions.
Thanx is the guest engagement and retention platform helping physical retailers become more digitally agile. The Thanx platform effortlessly captures and activates retail data at scale, allowing physical retailers to meaningfully engage with their customers throughout their journey.

GOLD SPONSORS

Atmosphere is the #1 streaming solution for businesses. Offering 60+ original, audio-optional, curated content channels to enhance any mood. Our easy to use plug-and-play device is proven to increase repeat business by 19% and decrease perceived wait time by 16%. Atmosphere also offers Digital Signage as in-house Marketing tool, as well as OOH self serve solutions for advertising at a fraction of the cost.
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.
CrunchTime! Information Systems, Inc., provides a comprehensive restaurant operations platform that simplifies and automates restaurant operations. By driving the flow of information throughout the organization, CrunchTime ensures operators make timely, fact-based decisions that help brands reduce food and beverage costs, drive labor efficiencies, and better manage the quality and consistency of their foodservice operations. For over 25 years, CrunchTime has enabled restaurants chains of all sizes to scale efficiently and save money.
Curion provides world-class quantitative and qualitative product insights. Applying proven industry-leading, innovative methods to service over 65% of Global 100 companies, Curion works with its clients to determine not only what products consumers like but why they are liked and how. As a result, Curion clients mitigate risk of marketplace failure by ensuring that only products of quality and character will be introduced to the market. Curion accomplishes this with its disruptive methods.
Founded in 2019, Koala is an industry-leading platform that creates premium, customizable apps for restaurants to offer digital ordering. Every restaurant deserves a premium experience, and Koala provides that experience for more than 4,000 restaurant locations nationwide. Digital orders with Koala lead to higher conversion rates than a white-label solution and an increase of up to 20% in average order value. For more information, visit www.Koala.io.
Lineup.ai uses advanced machine learning to compare your historical data with external variables like weather and events to generate accurate sales forecasts for each location. You can turn Lineup.ai's sales forecasts and customized labor allowances into profitable schedules with just a few clicks. Employees can submit their availability, PTO requests, and more using the mobile app, creating a seamless end-to-end process for schedule management.
Messner Reeves LLP is truly a full-service law firm. From corporate compliance to crisis management and food safety, real estate to labor & employment, franchising to intellectual property, we love our restaurant and hospitality clients. Whether a corner hotdog stand, a locally loved chain, or an international brand, we can help!
Nudge is a mobile platform changing the way deskless and frontline organizations communicate. The Nudge app enables head office to share relevant, critical information with their deskless workers across every location in real-time. Employees can provide feedback, take part in discussions, and test their knowledge while earning recognition and points. Since 2012, over 65 million Nudges have been delivered, increasing sales, employee engagement and retention.
Ovation uses a 2-question SMS-based survey as a “digital table touch” that has redefined guest feedback. Through frictionless integrations with online ordering platforms and other tools, Ovation allows restaurants to easily resolve guest concerns in real-time, get more 5-star reviews, discover insights to improve, and drive revenue.
What’s the difference between a guest and a guest for life? Experience. Creating a great guest experience is the most rewarding thing you can do for your brand. If you keep your guests delighted, and make it easy for them to engage, they will keep coming back. Visit https://www.paytronix.com.
Placer.ai is the world’s most advanced foot traffic analytics platform, providing unprecedented visibility with accurate and actionable insights into location analytics and consumer demand surrounding any location. It empowers professionals in retail, commercial real estate, and restaurants to maximize their offline activities, with reporting capabilities that include visit trends, True Trade Areas, cannibalization/void analysis, demographics, cross-shopping, and favorite places.
Red Bull Energy Drink is available in 170+ countries worldwide and more than 7.4 billion cans of Red Bull were consumed last year. Red Bull Energy Drink’s signature 8.4 fl. oz can contains 80 mg of caffeine, about the same amount as in a home-brewed cup of coffee.
Revel Systems powers the ambitions of restaurants and retailers with a robust cloud-based Point of Sale and business management system. Improving day-to-day operations and fueling merchant growth, Revel’s streamlined ecosystem helps customers seize their future by pairing an intuitive POS with powerful management tools on a single platform.
Skellam AI helps in revenue acceleration and improving customer engagement for restaurants and retailers with their custom solutions. Their AI engine aids businesses to offer customization and hyper-personalization for their customers across multiple channels. They have served a Fortune 500 company and 100+ SMB merchants to date.
SOCi is the marketing platform for multi-location brands. We empower businesses like Ace Hardware, Sport Clips, and Anytime Fitness to connect with local audiences across every marketing channel. As one central place to scale marketing, SOCi makes the impossible possible by enabling top brands and their locations to strengthen and scale their digital presence across limitless local search and social pages while protecting what matters most, their reputation.
Steritech is an industry leader providing best-in-class assessment and consulting services for over 35 years. Steritech helps brands deliver their ideal brand experience every time, everywhere. With the experience gained as a pioneer in the food safety arena, Steritech today strategically guides multi-location businesses. As a trusted partner, Steritech’s 400+ highly-trained, calibrated specialists identify barriers, opportunities, and successes at every location.
The Tork brand offers professional hygiene products and services to customers ranging from restaurants and healthcare facilities to offices, schools and industries. Products include industry-leading dispensers, napkins, paper towels, toilet tissue, kitchen wipers and soap. Through expertise in hygiene, functional design and sustainability, Tork has become a market leader. To keep up with the latest Tork news, please visit: www.torkusa.com.
Vericast is a leading marketing solutions company, delivering actionable insights and expertise through its Valassis and Harland Clarke omnichannel solutions, to help more than 70,000 businesses engage with their customers. Every day, Vericast influences purchasing and transaction behavior of more than 120 million households – impacting where they eat, shop, buy, save and borrow.
For more than 30 years, Zero Hour Health has helped clients effectively navigate illnesses and outbreaks, countless employee and community health issues that impact their reputations and their bottom line. We help you respond to employee, customer, and community health issues that impact your business, before they become a crisis. Throughout the pandemic, Zero Hour Health has been the go-to resource for the industry's top businesses to ensure they are prepared to operate in these unique times.

SILVER SPONSORS

Envysion, a Motorola Solutions Company, is a managed video software solution integrating recorded video and audio with in-store data such as point-of-sale, business intelligence, inspection software, and alarm verification systems. Operators use the software solution to reduce loss, mitigate risk, transform operating culture, reduce employee turnover, and secure brand promise with actionable information to drive better management decisions.
Epsilon, positioned at the center of Publicis Groupe. We connect advertisers with consumers to drive performance while respecting and protecting consumer privacy and client data. Epsilon accelerates clients’ ability to harness the power of their first-party data to enhance, activate, and measure campaigns with confidence. We’ve built the industry’s most comprehensive identity graph to give brands, agencies, and publishers the ability to reach real consumers across all channels and the open web.
HungerRush delivers custom solutions for chains that are ready to unlock unrivaled insights - all through a powerful cloud-based POS platform. GET EVEN SMARTER ABOUT DIGITAL ORDERING. HungerRush 360 OrderAI Text helps drive more orders and reach people the way they’re communicating - by text. HUNGERRUSH 360 MARKETING. One-size-fits-all marketing doesn’t cut it anymore. We use your first-party data to send guests relevant campaigns with a higher performance rate.
InMarket is a leader in real-time location advertising. For the last 12 years, we’ve become a true partner to some of today’s leading brands and agencies looking to better understand market trends from our unique data. In 2021, InMarket was named the Best Location-Based Marketing Platform at the MarTech Breakthrough Awards and was ranked 280th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America.
A leading online reputation management solution that works with enterprises large (1,000+) and small (50+) in the restaurant, automotive services, and healthcare/veterinarian industries. We help businesses stay connected with their guests, customers, and/or clients. Easily track and manage reviews, ratings, and business listings on a single platform. Share reports that identify clear, actionable insights with company stakeholders, positively impacting sales and guest satisfaction.
Weʼre Raydiant, the experience management platform for brick-and-mortar. Our technology helps you take control of your brandʼs in-location experience, from customers to employees, one location to hundreds. It bridges all the moments you need to shine. Greeting people. Setting a mood. Answering a question. Making their experience more convenient and productive. More satisfying and enjoyable. And more likely to return to, again and again. Visit Raydiant.com for more info.
VikingCloud provides end-to-end security and compliance solutions to businesses all around the globe, delivering cutting-edge solutions to secure networks, maintain compliance, and complete assurance testing and assessments. We work with many of the world’s largest brands, helping them proactively manage ever-changing cyber threats and business risk.
We are a learning and development leader with a different vision. We view learning as the path to a stronger culture, a greater brand, and as vital to building communities of employees, customers, and partners. Our LMS and LXP software solutions foster communities of sharing, blended learning at its best, nearly limitless content building and authoring, and learning insights that drive results.

BRONZE SPONSORS

Bikky is a customer data platform built exclusively for multi-unit restaurants. We aggregate guest data across all in-store and off-premise channels to map the entire customer journey, unlocking critical insights into guest retention, frequency, and lifetime value. Bikky empowers over 60 multi-unit brands with the data they need to make better decisions across their marketing, operations, culinary choices, and the guest experience.
Smart online (digital) ordering for restaurants that increases average check size through machine learning capabilities. Bite software is hardware agnostic and integrates with the most popular POS and loyalty systems.
Health-Ade makes feel-good bubbly beverages for a happy gut. Health-Ade Kombucha is a bubbly fermented tea packed with living probiotics and detoxifying acids. It has no artificial flavors or sweeteners - just cold-pressed juice from organic produce. Our kombucha is certified organic, non-GMO, gluten-free, vegan and kosher. Health-Ade Pop is our new prebiotic soda with detoxifying acids, natural antioxidants and 3 grams of prebiotic fiber. This product is low in sugar with no fake sweeteners.
Hyperlocology helps franchise brands with custom advertising per location. With dashboards to measure results and business insights for each location, brands create transparency and accountability for franchisees. Brands also empower franchisees to invest in custom advertising across the top channels, in a few clicks. Advertising is brand directed, locally perfected.
LeagueSide is the nation’s leading community sports sponsorship platform, making local sponsorships scalable, turnkey, and measurable. Getting your local stores involved in the community just got easier.
MenuTrinfo is the nation’s leading nutritional, food allergy, consulting company since 2010. Providing a variety of services ranging from AllerTrain a food allergen accredited training course, menu labeling and nutrition expertise, accredited food safety training, and ISO17065 accreditation services. A Certified Women Owned Business headquartered in Fort Collins, CO.
Radar's leading geofencing platform helps product and growth teams build timely and relevant location-based experiences that drive revenue and customer loyalty. Join the ranks of leading brands like Panera and Boston Market in offering personalized, connected experiences in-store and virtually with technology for curbside pickup, trip-tracking, and more.
Satis.ai uses live camera feeds in kitchens to analyse cooking, assembly and packing processes and gives actionable feedback to staff in real time. Significantly improves accuracy, speed of service, staff on boarding times and quality and consistency. Major reductions in refunds, customer complaints, delivery driver wait times and Labor costs. Enterprise ready and scalable.
Sony Professional offers A/V, presentation and display products and solutions, including projectors, displays, remote cameras, video analytics and microphones for diverse needs that are developed to solve specific challenges. With flexible sizes and accommodating price points, Sony provides versatile options and the consultative expertise to design and outfit corporate, education, entertainment, houses of worship and healthcare facilities. Let us help you transform your communications.
Uniforms should bring your brand to life in a way that appeals to both employees and customers. At Threads Uniform Agency, you can rest assured the process will be seamless from start to finish. From our global reach and custom designs to the fit capabilities and high-quality products we provide, you can achieve the look you want. We provide complete programs that accommodate the changing needs of your organization.
Upside is a retail technology that puts restaurants in front of thousands of customers they've never seen, and serves those customers compelling, margin-bound incentives that change their buying behavior. Without any IT work, retailers offset rising costs and maximize net profit with new customers and repeat visits.
Workstream is a rapid hiring tool that helps restaurants source, screen, and onboard candidates faster through texting and automation. With Workstream, countless businesses are successfully hiring hourly workers FAST in today’s highly competitive labor market. Keep your stores staffed and your business running with Workstream today!

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS

Alder-Tek Manufacturing is committed to enhancing our customers’ brand by manufacturing premium single-use wooden utensils and driving positive impacts for the environment and the world.
Beekeeper’s mission is to transform the way 2 billion frontline employees work with a mobile-first communication platform that reaches every shift, location, and language through real-time one-on-one and group messaging. Dedicated streams deliver important operational communications to your entire workforce or specific subgroups. Managers keep staff productive and turnover low by automating workflows and messaging to their teams.
C3 is a Kansas City-based marketing and activation agency that brings brands to life for families with children, creating experiences, entertainment and more. C3 uses insights, strategy and guidance to design award-winning programs and products to help major restaurant and hospitality partners in the US and abroad improve their business with families, whether in restaurant, off premises, or in the community at large with philanthropic efforts.
DIRECTV's Enterprise Solutions delivers a consistent, total entertainment experience to national businesses, including state-of-the-art technology, unmatched programming, and the most comprehensive sports packages available. Our dedicated sales teams and marketing support are designed to meet all of your enterprise's needs across a state, region, or the country!
DroneUp is recognized as a drone innovation leader, transforming organizations with drone delivery and technology solutions. In 2021, DroneUp received a significant investment from the world’s largest retailer, Walmart. DroneUp’s last-mile food delivery solution allows partners to reduce operational costs, streamline logistics, and delight customers.
As a leading global supplier of touchscreen solutions, Elo is everywhere. With over 25 million installations in over 80 countries, Elo can be found in restaurants around the globe for self-service kiosks, kitchen display systems, hospitality systems, point-of-sale terminals, point-of-information displays, retail experiences, wayfinding, and transportation check-in applications.
Foodbuy Foodservice provides best-in-class procurement solutions to customers throughout the restaurant industry, offering a wide variety of programs and resources to meet the needs of independents as well as regional and national chains.
Force4Good is a restaurant growth platform that helps multi-unit restaurants acquire new customers, increase sales, and be a Force For Good in their communities through fundraisers. The automation platform drives results, meets IRS compliance requirements, and makes it easy to run a world-class fundraiser program. We are proud to have optimized over a quarter million fundraiser events.
Impossible Foods is on a mission to restore our planet by creating meat made from plants that’s better tasting and better for the environment. We're doing this by scaling a new technology platform that transforms plant ingredients into delicious, nutritious, and affordable food products — with a much smaller environmental footprint than meat from animals. We have developed a portfolio of plant-based meat products through our technology platform, including our flagship product, Impossible™ Beef.
kea takes your carryout and delivery phone calls then transforms them into digital orders; maximizing their value through programmatic up-selling while increasing the productivity of your workforce.
Netspend®, a Global Payments Company, is a leading provider in payments and payroll products. Netspend’s business solutions provide companies with prepaid cards, Paycard programs, Netspend Earned Wage Access and Tip Solutions. Netspend Earned Wage Access enables your company to offer employees options to attract and retain talent. Whether reducing paper checks or streamlining the tip out process, Netspend offers solutions beneficial to employees, customers, and partners.
Otter provides you with a comprehensive product and service offering focused on helping your restaurant quickly and sustainably grow its online food ordering business. Our innovative solutions eliminate the chaos of online ordering to help your restaurant succeed in delivery.
ParmCrisps® is a premium cheese crisp line made from hand-turned parmesan cheese that is brined and aged for 10+ months and part of the brand family from Hain Celestial Group, a leading manufacturer in natural and organic products. ParmCrisps® are oven-baked in small batches, made in the USA, free from antibiotics or artificial grow hormones, gluten free, and shelf-stable. We own our production facilities and offer a variety of flavor combinations for partnership opportunities.
PAR Punchh is a restaurant loyalty platform designed to give operators streamlined control over incentives, marketing, and promotions that respond in real time and scale up to any situation, keeping guests engaged and coming back to visit. PAR Punchh is part of PAR Technology’s end-to-end restaurant management solutions.
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.
Personalize.AI is a cloud native AI SaaS solution purpose built to empower brands to leverage data from loyalty programs, customer interactions and campaigns to better understand which customer experiences, content, products and offers to recommend. ZS is a management consulting analytics and technology firm working with over 12,000 clients globally. We leverage our leading-edge analytics, plus the power of data, science, and products to help our clients make more intelligent decisions.
Restaurant365 is a cloud-based, all-inclusive, back-office solution that combines key restaurant modules with an integrated accounting backbone. Restaurant365 was founded by an experienced team of software veterans committed to developing an accounting, back office and reporting tool – specifically for restaurants – that scales and positions restaurant concepts for growth.
SynergySuite helps multi-unit restaurants simplify operations and increase profitability with an easy-to-use restaurant management platform. Save 3-5% on food and labor with all the tools you need to run the back office in one place. Global brands trust our mobile-first software with inventory, purchasing, reporting, operations, food safety, labor and scheduling, cash management, and human resources.
TalentServed is a national executive search firm that helps exciting brands grow by building unstoppable tactical and strategic leadership teams across the hospitality, foodservice, consumer goods and consumer services industries. Our uniquely qualified recruiting team excels in nurturing longtime relationships with exceptional candidates. Looking for the right leaders to propel the success of your business? Connect with us today.
Too Good To Go is helping to connect businesses and customers in a truly novel way. Surplus food is inevitable in the food world, and we enable businesses to turn that surplus food into a marketing asset - enabling customers to purchase any surplus food in "Surprise Bags" through the Too Good To Go app. Our platform is a simple way to engage customers and employees, reduce costs and increase margins, and help the planet at the same time.
Customizable Compliance Solutions for Today's Workplace. Hiring someone who fails to meet your standards for compliance, safety, and integrity can put your organization at risk, which is why Vault Workforce Screening provides all the customizable tools you need to confidently vet hires quickly, while ensuring continuous workplace safety compliance-all backed by 100% US-based customer support.

ADDITIONAL SPONSORS

Botrista provides beverage solutions to foodservice operators by leveraging easy-to-use equipment (the DrinkBot) alongside a line of pre-packaged ingredients (BiBs) to deliver craft beverages: infused teas & lattes, flavored lemonades, iced coffees and more! We automate the portioning, dispensing and mixing process to deliver a fresh and consistently blended product in under 20 seconds.
Diversey’s mission is to protect and care for people through leading hygiene, infection prevention, and cleaning solutions. We develop and deliver innovative products, services, and technologies that save lives and protect our environment. Over the course of 95 years, the Diversey brand has become synonymous with product quality, service, and innovation.
18 Million of your future loyal customers at your fingertips. Big rewards at theirs! The Fetch platform uses personalized 1:1 offers to drive customer acquisition, boost retention and maximize the value of each trip. All without discounting. With Fetch, your restaurant brand can utilize first-party transaction data from billions of receipts, allowing you to drive preference for your brand over your competition.
GroundTruth is a leading location-based marketing and advertising technology company. Brands, agencies, SMBs, and non-profits trust their performance-driven solutions to help them reach consumers during moments of intent that generate important business outcomes. Our suite of geo-contextual display and video advertising products and services are available at scale through their self-serve omni-channel advertising platform, managed services, industry reseller partnerships and programmatically.
Enhance your guests' experience with our platform that combines branded online ordering and white-label mobile apps with customizable loyalty, a data-driven automated marketing suite, fully automated CDP analytics/segmentation, gift cards, upsells powered by machine learning, and guest journey management that uses artificial intelligence to identify at-risk guests and turn them into regulars–– all while seamlessly integrating with top POS providers, payment processors and delivery services.
We're the iced tea that pops! Minna's sparkling iced teas are made with organic, fair trade teas thoughtfully sourced from around the world, blended with vibrant, organic fruit and bubbles. More flavor than sparkling water and better for you than soda, sugary iced teas or energy drinks. No added sugar or sweeteners. Nothing artificial. Zero calories and non-GMO. A perfect addition to a meal.
Olo is a leading open SaaS platform for restaurants that enables hospitality at every touchpoint. Over 600 restaurant brands trust Olo to grow their digital ordering and delivery programs, increase operational efficiency, and make every guest feel like a regular. Learn more at olo.com.
RestaurantGeofencing.com designs and deploys brand-approved, hyper-local campaigns that help restaurant marketers and owners reach the right customers with pin-point precision. We employ a three-prong approach of customer intelligence, precise targeting and ad delivery (across display, video, OTT/CTV, and social) and expert optimization with actionable reporting based on what really works to drive foot traffic and sales.
SoundHound is a leading innovator of conversational intelligence offering an independent voice AI platform that enables businesses across industries to deliver best-in-class conversational experiences to their customers. SoundHound's voice AI-powered ordering solution for restaurants transforms food ordering into a convenient and hands-free experience with a voice assistant that's able to take complex orders and allow for substitutions and special requests—freeing up your staff for other tasks.
UMI is a full-service marketing solutions partner dedicated to helping multi-unit brands identify ways to streamline their operation and expand their growth potential. With over 20 years of experience, UMI offers unrivaled knowledge of the restaurant industry and expertise in production and fulfillment. Are you looking to scale quickly? Let’s talk!

PARTNER SPONSORS

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 new digital property covers industry trends and news, profiles business owners, and explores the technologies and tools available to help operators grow their businesses.
The Interactive Customer Experience Association’s mission is to connect B2C brands to technology that elevates the customer experience.
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.

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