Jonathan Neman
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692 appearances
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 May
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And there's a few there's a few issues.
Most restaurant workflows are very specific.
So they're super specific to that restaurant.
Two, most restaurants are franchises and so they're not owned by the corporation.
We are fully company owned.
So if you're a franchise restaurant, you know, if you're McDonald's, you have to now go convince your franchisees to buy whatever automation you have.
And the other is
That's exactly right.
And the other issue is you need automation that takes enough
labor out or offers enough value to be worth it because the CapEx is still very heavy.
So when we went down this path, we tried to build it ourselves actually.
We built a team to do it ourselves.
Realized how challenging it was and then we found this startup that was doing it and doing a really good job.
Yeah.
was called Spice.
It was called Spice Kitchen.
It was four MIT grads out of
out uh four garage out of MIT and they had the same issue.
They realized they could build the automation, but no one was gonna buy it.
Yeah.
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