Restaurant Technology Podcast

Restaurant Technology Podcast

Cali BBQ Media

Episodes 48
Avg. Duration 7m
Activity Active
Since Feb 2025
Latest Episode May 2026

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Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
50%
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About This Podcast

Restaurant Technology is a weekly business news series hosted by Cali BBQ Media Founder Shawn Walchef. Keep up to date on the latest stories, insights, and thought leadership in the modern restaurant technology landscape.

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Recent Episodes

The Future of Tech is Agentic: How Toast IQ Already Saved Us $4,000 in Labor

May 31, 2026 1m

PRODUCTS DISCUSSED:* Toast IQ - learn more* Toast IQ Grow - learn more* Toast Seamless Checkout - learn more* Toast Finance - learn moreWhen I talk to product innovators and executive leadership to…

Welcome to the World Cup of the Restaurant Industry: Live in Chicago 2026

May 16, 2026 4m

Tips for Surviving The Restaurant ShowI caught up with our good friend Michael Ungaro from San Pedro Fish Market (Kings of Fish Media) right as the Show opened to get his top tips for navigating the…

National Restaurant Show 2026: Will I See You at the Big Sign?

May 13, 2026 0m Bonus

The National Restaurant Show is our industry’s World Cup. But you don’t win the World Cup by sitting in the nosebleeds.To win in the restaurant industry in 2026, you need to be on the pitch with the…

Live from Food On Demand Conference - Dallas

May 06, 2026 12m

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit restauranttechnology.substack.com

Do You Want To Build The Amazon of Restaurants?

May 02, 2026 9m

The restaurants who are stuck in the past are DOA. If you aren’t building your business like Amazon did — leveraging technology, storytelling, and logistics — you’re going to struggle to survive in…

Built For Busy: Celebrating Restaurant Hustle at the Crossroads of the World

Apr 24, 2026 1m

I didn’t bring my family to Times Square just for a billboard. I brought my wife and kids because this business costs something important: Late nights, missed weekends, and holidays that don’t feel…

LIVE from Restaurant Leadership Conference 2026

Apr 21, 2026 14m

Influential people have told me for years that I needed to get to Phoenix for the Restaurant Leadership Conference (RLC). Now that I’m here at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge for the Informa event’s…

Built For Busy - Times Square Live with Toast

Apr 16, 2026 13m

To any operator reading this.We got into this business praying for busy.Not the slow nights, not the empty dining rooms. We dreamed about the chaos.The tickets stacking, the line out the door, the…

Toast on Tour - San Diego

Apr 13, 2026 11m

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit restauranttechnology.substack.com

Built for Busy: Join the NYC Meet-Up in Times Square on April 16

Apr 09, 2026 0m

TIMES SQUARE MEET-UPDATE: Thursday, April 16thTIME: 10:30am (Meet-Up) ; 11:15-11:20am (Toast Billboard Goes Live)WHERE: 47th St. and 7th Avenue in Times Square NYCONLINE: Watch LIVE right here on…

2026 Media Global Tour: Join Me This Summer in Vegas, Chicago, London, and Beyond

Mar 21, 2026 2m

“Stay curious, get involved, and ask for help.”These are the three lessons my grandfather taught me, and they guide every move we make at Cali BBQ Media. We just wrapped up an incredible experience…

Survival, Scaling, and the Restaurant Tech Stack Behind Ravenous Pig

Mar 13, 2026 10m

In this Restaurant Tech Tour, we visited James Petrakis at his Ravenous Pig in Florida to discuss the strategic tech stack that transformed a “survival-mode” startup into a hospitality group that now…

Go Inside NYC's Famous Levain Bakery on a Restaurant Tech Tour

Mar 03, 2026 24m

At a Glance: How Levain Bakery Powered Their 19-Location Expansion* Tech Vision: CTO Gustavo Cardona, a former NASA data analyst applied an “engineer’s point of view” to the cookie business.*…

Feeding People, Not Landfills with Food Donation Technology

Feb 18, 2026 7m

The US food system has a staggering logistical failure: while 60+ million tons of food are tossed into landfills each year, millions of Americans still face food insecurity. I wanted to introduce you…

Community Technology For Your Restaurant | TECH STACK RUNDOWN

Feb 06, 2026 5m

TECH MENTIONED:* Toast Marketing — Retargeting and Loyalty* Marqii — One-Stop Listing Management* Google Business Profile — Local Search Visibility* Palona.ai — AI Voice Automation* Ovation —…

4 Menu Engineering Hacks to Boost Profits

Jan 30, 2026 12m

If you run a restaurant, you are in the business of storytelling. And your menu is one of the most important stories you tell. Most owners treat their menu as a simple list of food and prices, but in…

Find Your Freedom: Lessons from The Annual Toast Kickoff

Jan 15, 2026 0m

Restaurants don’t fail because of the food. They fail because of broken systems.For years, the industry accepted a hard truth: to be successful, you had to be the glue holding a fractured business…

Before You Hang “We’re Open”: 8 Digital Steps Every Restaurant Should Take

Jan 06, 2026 7m

Opening day is more than a moment — it’s a story you’ll be telling for a lifetime. And in today’s restaurant landscape, your restaurant’s story begins long before guests walk through your…

I learned these 5 lessons by building a media company in public last year

Jan 01, 2026 1m

I learned a lot in 2025. I’ll learn even more in 2026.As we move into the New Year, the biggest lesson I’ve taken from the past groundbreaking year at Cali BBQ Media is that technology moves fast,…

From Michelin Stars to Instant Payouts: How Tech Powers Hospitality at Shorebird

Dec 27, 2025 29m

* Why instant payouts are actually a hospitality tool. Chef Bert reveals that removing the friction of waiting for tips doesn’t just improve morale, it eliminates the “head worries” and payout…

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