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.

Square makes commerce and financial services easy and accessible with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions. Square offers purpose-built software to run complex restaurant, retail, and professional services operations, versatile e-commerce tools, embedded financial services and banking products, buy now, pay later functionality through Afterpay, staff management and payroll capabilities, and much more – all of which work together to save sellers time and effort.

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.

At DSA Signage, we design and manufacture drive-thru signage, digital menu boards, and wayfinding signage for restaurant brands. For more than 50 years, we've delivered UL-Listed, Made in USA signage engineered for clarity, durability, and performance in high-volume QSR environments. We partner with multi-unit operators and franchise groups, including Starbucks, Dave's Hot Chicken, and Slim Chickens, to support brand consistency and growth.

HigherMe is an all-in-one hiring software that gives businesses the tools and technology to easily find, screen, interview, and onboard employees. Founded by a former multi-unit franchisee, HigherMe reduces the time and cost of hiring with automated interview scheduling, a mobile-first applicant tracking system, Text-to-Apply technology, paperless onboarding, and more.

Momos Guest AI is the leading AI platform built for multi-location brands. We help restaurants, QSRs, retail, and hospitality teams deliver better guest experiences across every location by unifying customer service, operations, and marketing into a single end-to-end platform - turning one-time customers into repeat guests. Trusted by 30,000 locations and global leading brands, Momos drives higher customer satisfaction, repeat revenue growth, and stronger customer loyalty at every location.

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 Dave’s Hot 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.

Qvinci, the leader in franchise financial performance, helps restaurant brands effectively measure, monitor, and communicate financial performance in a manner location owners can understand, make sense of, and act on. Qvinci solves the 3 main challenges faced by restaurant franchises: 1. Near real-time access to location data mapped to a brand-defined standard. 2. Advanced coaching for performance tools. 3. Brand compliance and expansion solutions. Onboarding is simple, ROI is immediate!

Trabon is the go-to print production partner for the restaurant industry, trusted by 90+ national brands from QSR and fast casual to fine dining. For over 50 years, we’ve helped brands bring menus, LTOs, and marketing materials to life with unmatched speed, quality, and precision. Powered by smart technology and decades of print know-how, Trabon makes it easy to version, produce, and deliver the right materials to every location - so brands look sharp and stay consistent everywhere they show up.

Training Simplified partners with hospitality brands to build leadership from within. With a system proven by our experience leading learning at Chipotle and across multiple brands, we blend your unique culture with best-in-class industry standards. Whether partially or fully customized, we create training across four key intervals: new hire orientation, new shift leaders, new managers, and new store openings, so your leaders deliver the results that drive growth while maintaining your culture.

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.

Delightree is an all-in-one franchise management software platform that simplifies every stage of franchise management. From helping franchisees launch new locations to ensuring brand consistency and operational efficiency across all locations, Delightree streamlines the entire process. Learn more at Delightree.com.

Media that performs. Powered by Nexus, our proprietary data and activation ecosystem, we unify audience intelligence, cross-platform expertise and analytics to create a clear line from media to business growth. Built for challenger agencies and brands, our sweet spot is delivering the sophistication, partners and results accessible to the industry leaders, with the agility, attention and efficiency of an experienced and nimble team.

100,000+ restaurants worldwide trust Otter to power their business. We offer tools for managing multi-channel orders, integrations, financials, uptime, reporting, analytics and more, helping restaurants increase results, improve efficiency and eliminate chaos. Otter partners with hundreds of leading restaurant apps, tools and services bridging the physical and digital infrastructure for food to partners including DoorDash, UberEats, Google, Grubhub and more!

RE BackOffice Inc. (REBO) is a global boutique firm specializing in real estate marketing and lease services. Through REBOlease.com, our Lease Services Group delivers Lease Administration, Lease Abstraction, CAM Reconciliation, and Recovery Audit solutions across industries and all lease types on any platform. Since 2006, we’ve served 1000+ clients, combining deep expertise with proprietary lease abstraction technology to deliver strong strategic and financial value.

Central Restaurant Products is a trusted, single-source partner for equipment, supplies, and procurement solutions, leveraging decades of industry expertise to help growing and expanding brands standardize programs, optimize purchasing, streamline operations, and scale with confidence—delivering flexible, value-driven solutions that can be replicated across locations and executed seamlessly.

VGS is a single-source leader in design, fabrication and implementation rooted in over 40 years of craftsmanship, creativity and innovation. We excel at working with entrepreneurs, regional and/or expanding brands at creating scale, by utilizing an existing program and VE ing or refining for expansion, or designing a new one, we can create a flexible, value-driven visual communication package that can easily be duplicated, kitted and rolled-out—effectively setting you up for continued growth.

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.

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.

Vistify transforms menus into smart, data-driven growth engines. Create stunning digital menus in under an hour—no code needed. Update in real time, launch promos fast, and keep branding on point. With POS integration and powerful data tools, Vistify helps you manage content, optimize performance, and boost sales across every screen.

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.

The International Franchise Show is the UK's largest franchise exhibition,designed to help hospitality professionals like you turn hard-earned restaurant expertise into successful. Taking place on 17th & 18th April 2026, at Excel London, you'll meet 250+ franchise brands including established names like McDonald's and hundreds of food & beverage opportunities built for your success. The event provides everything you need to find and evaluate franchise opportunities, all in one place.

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.

Formed in 1937, the TRA serves as the advocate and indispensable resource for the foodservice industry in Texas. As a leading business association, the TRA represents the state’s $138 billion restaurant industry, which encompasses more than 57,000 locations and a workforce of over 1.4 million employees. Along with the Texas Restaurant Foundation, the workforce development arm of the TRA, the association proudly continues to protect, advance, and educate a growing industry.