Restaurant Idea Factory

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  • Restaurant Idea Factory is a new media company that brings together three of the top minds and content creators in modern hospitality to help break down ways to improve the restaurant industry. Tip of the spear is a weekly news, tech, innovation, education and entertainment series, Co-Hosted by Shawn Walchef of Restaurant Influencers & Digital Hospitality; Kyle Inserra, The National Restaurant Owners Podcast; and Jensen Cummings, Best Served Podcast. The three hosts come together from across the country (San Diego, Denver, New York City)
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  • RIF027: Rick Bayless On The Bear, Alternative Meats In Restaurants, NextBite Acquisition

    RIF027: Rick Bayless On The Bear, Alternative Meats In Restaurants, NextBite Acquisition
    Jun 30 2023

    RIF027: Rick Bayless On The Bear, Alternative Meats In Restaurants, NextBite Acquisition


    📸 ENTERTAINMENT FEED


    Rick Bayless Rips ‘The Bear’ for Glorifying the Ugliness of Restaurants by Ashok Selvam - Eater


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    📣 GUEST EXPERIENCE presented by Ovation


    Alternative Meats


    Yo Egg: The Plant-Based Egg That Can Actually Be Poached by David Tran - Daily Meal

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    Meet Land Lovers: A Startup Looking to Disrupt the US Meat Market With the “Most Realistic Plant-Based Steak” by Vegconomist

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    Cell-cultivated meat has been approved for sale for the first time in the United States by Joanna Fantozzi - Restaurant Hospitality 

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    💰MARKET WATCH


    Sam Nazarian buys food tech company Nextbite by Isabella Farr - The Real Deal

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    ⭐️ READING REVIEWS presented by Marqii


    Reviewing the Restaurant Idea Factory Podcast


    📲 TECH STACK


    Toast adds 99-cent customer online ordering fee by Julie Littman - Restaurant Dive



    Why DoorDash & CloudKitchens Are Building POS Systems by Matt Newberg - HNGRY TV READ HERE


    Thank you to our segment partners Zack at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ovation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Avi at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Marqii⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and David at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DAVO⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


    Have a topic or want to become a RIFter? Head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Restaurant Idea Factory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info!


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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • RIF026: Keith Lee Feud, Netflix Bites In LA, Restaurant Uses Priest To Scam Employees

    RIF026: Keith Lee Feud, Netflix Bites In LA, Restaurant Uses Priest To Scam Employees
    Jun 21 2023
    RIF026: Keith Lee Feud, Netflix Bites In LA, Restaurant Uses Priest To Scam Employees 🤖 ROBOTIC REVELATION “Austin” by Serve Robotics gets knocked over and looted on a delivery run WATCH Nala Robotics Introduces Autonomous Bowl Bot and Sandwich Bot Sandwich Bot can prepare nearly any type of sandwich from 48 choices of meats, vegetables and cheeses – all within a 16’ x 12’ space. Within a 10’x10’ footprint, Bowl Bot can prepare Bowls from 28 ingredients of bases, proteins and toppings. READ HERE 📸 ENTERTAINMENT FEED Netflix plans to serve up food to eat, not just watch On June 30, Netflix Bites will open in Los Angeles and will feature food from the chefs you’ve come to love on the smaller screen from shows like “Chef’s Table,” “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend,” and “Is It Cake?” From Iron Chef, Curtis Stone, Dominique Crenn, Ming Tsai and Andrew Zimmern. From “Chef’s Table,” Rodney Scott and Ann Kim will contribute. Nadiya Hussain of “Nadiya Bakes,” is involved, as is Jacques Torres of “Nailed It!” Drinks will be created by Frankie Solarik, Julie Reiner, LP O’Brien and Kate Gerwin of “Drink Masters.” READ HERE MrBeast says he's 'moving on' from MrBeast Burger In now-deleted tweets, the YouTube star said quality-control problems with the virtual band are hurting his image. But shutting it down entirely may be out of his hands. Jimmy Donaldson wrote that he wanted to shut down MrBeast Burger, “but the company I partnered with won’t let me stop even though it’s terrible for my brand. READ HERE 📣 GUEST EXPERIENCE presented by Ovation The one word, the secret ingredient to a phenomenal guest experience, “Caring”! Caring, not “Karen”!! 💰MARKET WATCH Olo lays off 81 people as part of reorganization by Joe Guszkowski The company is ironing out complexities that resulted from acquiring Wisely and launching a payments product. It’s also hiring a COO. The company’s existing “Business Units” will be narrowed down to three core segments: Order, Pay and Engage. As part of the restructuring, Olo is hiring a chief operating officer. Joanna “Jo” Lambert, who was most recently a strategic advisor to Yahoo and has held senior executive roles at PayPal, Venmo and American Express ⁠READ HERE 💡 EMPHASIZING TEAMS Calif. restaurants used a bogus priest to learn of worker 'sins' like stealing Taqueria Garibaldi used the ruse to learn of such confessed infractions as fudging hours, according to a Department of Labor investigation. “Under oath, an employee of Taqueria Garibaldi explained how the restaurant offered a supposed priest to hear their workplace ‘sins’ while other employees reported that a manager falsely claimed that immigration issues would be raised”… by the Department of Labor READ HERE 🎬 TALK TIK TOK Keith Lee has beef with Chicken Fire after owner goes on offensive with attacks on social media of Lee’s review of the restaurant WATCH HERE Does using “Keith Lee’s” name on your restaurant order help you get better food? Keith explores this suggested approach.  WATCH HERE ⭐️ READING REVIEWS presented by Marqii Thank you to our segment partners Zack at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ovation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Avi at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Marqii⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and David at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DAVO⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Have a topic or want to become a RIFter? Head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Restaurant Idea Factory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info! Make sure to follow us! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/RestaurantIdeaFactory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@Restaurant Idea Factory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@RestaurantIdeafactory on Tik Tok ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/Restaurant Idea Factory on LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@RestaurantIdeaFactory on YouTube⁠
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • RIF025: Pizza Robot Fails, ChatGPT Menu Testing, Remote Work Effects On Restaurants

    RIF025: Pizza Robot Fails, ChatGPT Menu Testing, Remote Work Effects On Restaurants
    Jun 14 2023

    RIF025: Pizza Robot Fails, ChatGPT Menu Testing, Remote Work Effects On Restaurants


    🎬 TALK TIK TOK


    Is Zukku Sushi using ChatGPT for menu development or just for quality content?


    🤖 ROBOTIC REVELATION


    Four Lessons From the Demise of Zume by Michael Wolf - The Spoon


    Zume, the company famous mostly for raising a whole bunch of money for its pizza robot & cook-on-the-road food trucks concept, has shut down.

    This comes after burning through $450 million to build a food automation and delivery tech business, the company pivoted to a completely different business in sustainable packaging.


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    📣 GUEST EXPERIENCE presented by Ovation


    Valid vs Fake Customer Complaints - Out of 100 guests that complain, how many are trying to screw you over?


    💰MARKET WATCH


    Flipdish eyes profitability as it makes acquisition by CHARLIE TAYLOR - Business Post

    Irish tech unicorn has acquired point-of-sales firm Jinoby and is rolling out what it calls a complete restaurant management system


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    Bill is introduced to bring down restaurants' swipe fees By Peter Romeo - Restaurant Business Online

    The Credit Card Competition Act of 2023, aims to bring down what are now restaurants’ third-highest cost by fostering competition for the two dominant processors, the networks of MasterCard and Visa.

    The finance giants’ cards are used in an estimated 80% of all transactions within the U.S. that involve a credit card.


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     💤 SLEEP AT NIGHT presented by Davo


    What is a restaurant accountant's job? And what is not?


    📍GET REAL


    How remote work has changed the restaurant business By Joe Guszkowski - Restaurant Business Online

    Big city downtowns may never be the same. But smaller communities are booming, creating new opportunities for operators.

    According to data from pedestrian traffic researcher MRI Springboard, foot traffic in U.S. city downtowns was down 23% during January through May compared to the same period in 2019.


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    Thank you to our segment partners Zack at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ovation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Avi at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Marqii⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and David at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DAVO⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


    Have a topic or want to become a RIFter? Head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Restaurant Idea Factory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more info!


    Make sure to follow us!

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/RestaurantIdeaFactory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@Restaurant Idea Factory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@RestaurantIdeafactory on Tik Tok ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/Restaurant Idea Factory on LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@RestaurantIdeaFactory on YouTube⁠
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    1 hr and 6 mins

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