Niko Papademetriou

And I'm going to be transparent about it.

I had a lot on my mind.

You didn't deserve that.

And I'm sorry.

guess what?

That usually garners a, ah, it's okay, dad, and a hug.

So I don't think that these things are that much different, whether it's business or personal relationships or what have you.

I think it starts and ends with trust and transparency.

And I think even difficult things to communicate always end up in a better place if you're just open and honest and transparent.

In some capacities, it's probably boring.

It doesn't look that much different than where we are today.

In the relatively foreseeable future, we're going to continue to focus immensely on fast casual and quick service chains.

What they need out of technology is continuing to advance.

I wouldn't say there's a hard 90 degree pivot in any capacities around the tech that they need necessarily, but they certainly need technology.

Modern platforms that are highly scalable and resilient and secure that do what tech should do, which is empower and embrace agility and change rather than the opposite.

We're going to continue to focus on those things.

We're going to continue to focus on the operator.

It's going to start and end with the operator.

That has to be where great technology is focused on in my industry.

You have to think about the people in the restaurant.