TECHNOLOGY
4 emerging AI solutions spotted at the National Restaurant Association Show
across the country to find locations with similar [psychographic pro- files],” Knoth said. The service itself is free if busi- ness owners then use Locate AI as their brokerage firm for opening a location found through the heat map. Voice topping Voice topping is a newer voice AI solution that allows restaurant op- erators to enhance their existing technology by adding voice recogni- tion capabilities on top of their cur- rent kiosks, drive-thru systems, and POS terminals. Code Factory is one of the com- panies offering this service through supplementary devices that inte- grate with the hardware already in- stalled in the restaurant. This way, restaurants can add voice AI func- tions without installing an entirely new system. The technology is cur- rently most compatible with Win- dows software.
Real estate insights Locate AI is a tech-enabled real es- tate brokerage firm that’s able to use geofencing technology to give insights to operators across mul- tiple industries on where to open their next store location. “We follow 20 million cellphones and using that data and our propri- etary software, we can do a heat map of [potential locations] across the whole country, and if you have 20+ locations, we can give you sales projections for opening in those ar- eas,” Chad Knoth, one of the real es- tate experts with Locate AI said. It works by tracking anonymized cell phone data from customers that walk into restaurants and us- ing that information, can figure out a user’s psychographics (age, family status, etc.). “If I’m a customer coming to your restaurant again and again and ev- eryone around me coming to this restaurant is also married with kids, then we follow those patterns
TECH TRENDS FROM THE SHOW Join Nation’s Restaurant News’ Joanna Fantozzi and NRN contributor Marlon Gordon as they explore what’s new in restaurant tech. Check out three innovations that caught their eye.
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National Restaurant Association Show 2025
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