Sponsors

Founders Advisors has been serving founder- and family-owned businesses for over two decades. We leverage deep sector knowledge and expertise in industries including Consumer/Restaurants, Healthcare, Industrials, Business Services, and Technology. Founders prioritizes building authentic relationships with our clients to deeply understand their goals, allowing us to deliver exceptional outcomes.

HungerRush is a leading provider of integrated restaurant technology, serving restaurants of all sizes—from independent operators to large multi-location brands. Its cloud-based POS platform is built for quick-service and fast-casual restaurants, combining digital ordering, delivery, kitchen operations, guest engagement, reporting, marketing, and payments into one unified system. HungerRush gives operators greater visibility, control, and flexibility to run and grow their business.

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.

Atmosphere is the leading streaming TV platform for businesses and enables venue operators to elevate their space, operate with ease, and improve their bottom line. The award-winning content spans 60+ channels for all audiences, including viral videos with Chive TV and a suite of news channels including News, Sports, and Entertainment, all programmed for out-of-home viewing and able to be viewed on their own or incorporated into a playlist of varied content.

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.

Since its inception in 2012, Main Street Menu Club acts as a fractional marketing department for independent restaurants looking to scale into a multi-unit restaurant group. We are a Swiss Army knife for your marketing department, providing the team and the technology without the cost of full time hires or enterprise software.

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.

Oil Solutions Group delivers best-in-class oil management solutions to the foodservice industry. Our innovative Masterfil® filters remove particles as small as ½ micron—30-120 times smaller than paper filters—to more than double oil life, reduce waste, improve food quality, and cut costs. We're committed to providing safe, efficient products that optimize kitchen operations while promoting sustainability. Our reusable filters are designed to last for 7 day, delivering superior performance.

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.

Momos powers your end-to-end guest experience. Engage your customers 24/7 across every platform, reduce incidents, recover customers at scale, and improve customer satisfaction.

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.

Axial Shift was founded by restaurant owners that understand the value of service, feedback, and data to achieve sales goals and empower team members. Our goal is to innovate the industry by rapidly growing front line teams, keeping leaders in the action with experience-focused, frictionless apps that support and align all roles in the business.

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 new digital property covers industry trends and news, profiles business owners, and explores the technologies and tools available to help operators grow their businesses.

Kathleen Wood Partners is an innovative, award-winning team of growth strategy experts. For over two decades, KWP has partnered with multi-unit restaurant concepts to accelerate their growth with proven strategies and customized solutions. Trusted by industry leaders like Raising Cane’s, Walk-On’s, Tap Room Long Island, and many more, KWP provides leaders with a competitive edge to accelerate scalability and achieve long-term success in an ever-changing industry.

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.

Rewards That Matter brings awareness to consumers of the hundreds of loyalty programs available across markets in restaurants, retail, travel, banking, entertainment and more. The site offers insight on loyalty program news and rewards program updates. Brands can submit their loyalty programs for inclusion on RewardsThatMatter.com via a convenient online form.

Formed in 1937, the Texas Restaurant Association 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 as the TRA enters its 88th year.