Technology is NOT perfect. Problems happen, and imperfection is inevitable. But when it comes down to running a profitable restaurant, consider the following… How do you protect what’s most important – your profits – when things don’t go as planned? How do you support your staff through difficulties? How do your partner teams respond when […]
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Episode Summary In this episode of Restaurants Reinvented, host Jen Kern welcomes Bobby Yazdani, founder and partner at Cota Capital. Bobby is a tech mastermind, platform builder, entrepreneur and a long-time lead investor in Qu. We dive into the future of restaurant technology and investment, exploring Bobby’s journey from Tehran to Silicon Valley, where he
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You should be able to customize and build your restaurant tech stack the way you want. That is, the way that best serves your guests, franchisees, and operating teams. At Qu we believe in flexible APIs that are rooted in modern micro-services software architecture. That means you can select the technology partners you want to
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Episode Summary In the latest episode of Restaurants Reinvented, Jen tackles her first solo-cast by diving deep into the frazzled, state of POS today and tackles head-first the broad misconception that “POS is Dead.” Jen clarifies market confusion by clearly stating that POS isn’t dead but is instead going through a massive transformation and evolution.
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We’ve recently discussed the new, evolving role of POS from the center of the tech stack to a side dish; and explained the definition of a Unified Commerce Platform. Now it’s time to hail the benefits of a unified platform approach. If you think we’re all full of fluff and marketing jargon – well you’re
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The unified commerce platform emerged out of a clear need for change in restaurant technology approaches. At Qu, we’ve been advocating for a shift in perspective away from “POS as a point solution” for a while. We’ve dubbed this as the Big POS Reframe, and it’s a call to view POS as simply one part
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Episode Summary For the past 3 years we’ve come together to talk about Reinventing Restaurants Together. It’s been a collective journey that’s taken us down a windy path of interviewing the most innovative, enlightened restaurant leaders in our space. While these three years have been filled with challenges, triumphs, and invaluable lessons – we’ve discussed it
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Episode Summary In this episode, we’re joined by another CTO trailblazer and change-maker, Kelly MacPherson from Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG). Kelly shares her unique journey through the hospitality and retail worlds, from growing up in a restaurant family to configuring her first POS network and rising as one of the very first female CIO/CTOs
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