How New Tech is Transforming Restaurants

Customer-facing and back of house technologies are revolutionizing the foodservice industry. From payment products that aim to boost check averages, to services that increase user engagement, to platforms that help minimize food waste, a bevy of tech startups are working to optimize customer experience and restaurant operations.

Join us for an inside look at how a handful of these startups operate and make money. Each of the startups will have 5 minutes to present and 5 minutes for Q&A.

There will be networking, wine sponsored by Lenz Winery (http://www.lenzwine.com/Home.htm) - @TheLenzWinery (https://twitter.com/TheLenzWinery) - and Bibber & Bell (http://bibberandbell.com/wines/) - @BibberAndBell (https://twitter.com/BibberAndBell) - and snacks sponsored by Innovative Food Holdings Inc. (IVFH) & Food Hatch (http://www.foodhatch.co/) - @FoodHatch (https://twitter.com/FoodHatch) - served after the presentations.

Confirmed Presenters:

Mark Egerman or Andrew Cove - co-founders, Cover (http://www.paywithcover.com/) - An OATV and Lerer Ventures backed payment processing app that lets customers seamlessly pay for their meals and saves restaurants money on credit card fees. @coverpay (http://twitter.com/coverpay) / info@paywithcover.com

Alice Cheng - founder & CEO, Culinary Agents (http://culinaryagents.com/) - A RRE Ventures and Correlation Ventures backed professional network that offers job matching and networking for culinary professionals in the food, beverage and hospitality industry. @CulinaryAgents (https://twitter.com/CulinaryAgents)/ info@culinaryagents.com

Darren Wan - CEO & co-founder, Easy Pairings (http://easypairings.com/)- An online marketplace for the hospitality industry that allows restaurants to lower recruitment costs and find great staff quickly and easily. @easypairings (https://twitter.com/easypairings) / sarah@easypairings.com

Eric Poley – VP of Sales, Objective Logistics (http://objectivelogistics.com/) - A Google Ventures and Atlas Venture backed retail/restaurant-focused software company that provides an artificially-intelligent, web-accessible labor performance management platform (MUSE). @OBJL (https://twitter.com/objl) / info@objectivelogistics.com

Matt Oley - VP of Sales, Swipely (https://www.swipely.com/) – An Index Ventures, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Greylock Partners backed service that helps local merchants better understand customers and grow sales by connecting information from the payments network, point-of-sale systems and the social web. @Swipely (https://twitter.com/swipely)/ business@swipely.com

Ware Sykes - CEO, NoWait (http://nowaitapp.com/) - A Birchmere Ventures-backed iOS app that allows consumers to search restaurant wait times, add their names to waiting lists and get texts from restaurants when their tables are ready. @NoWaitApp (http://twitter.com/nowaitapp)