What Restaurant Technologies Will Define 2021?

From new technologies and changing food trends to supply chains and innovative concepts, the restaurant industry is everchanging. Host Andre Natera shares kitchens, plates and stories with food and beverage superstars, preparing a new dish and offering valuable insights from the front lines of the culinary industry.

In this bonus segment of Run the Pass, Tyler Kern sits down with Dirk Izzo, President of NCR Hospitality, a company providing technology solutions to restaurants to help them run more efficiently and safely.

While digital transformation across restaurants was already taking place, the pandemic seemingly accelerated innovation by years in mere months. Izzo joins Kern to share some of the stories of how they transformed different restaurants within different categories, how QR codes were always a solution in search of a problem that is having another moment, and where he sees the industry going in 2021.

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