🚨NEW RESTAURANT TECH TRENDS EPISODE DROP 🚨

Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends, I sat down with Anthony Presley, CTO at CBS NorthStar and Co-Founder of TimeForge Labor.

Anthony has been building restaurant tech for decades and it shows. This conversation cuts straight through the noise on POS, kitchen AI, labor, and why “all-in-one” isn’t always the answer.

📺 WATCH AND LEARN 📺

👉 What Kitchen AI really means in practice: predictive cook times, real-time promise accuracy, and why static Excel-based prep times are still killing guest experience

👉 How NorthStar is using predictive kitchen timing to prevent Friday night meltdowns when dine-in, online, and delivery all collide

👉 Anthony’s candid take on AI scheduling: why black-box schedules fail, and why AI should nudge, suggest, and pre-populate instead of fully replacing managers

➕ PLUS

• The most common (and costly) mistakes multi-concept operators make when selecting a POS

• Where automation belongs in restaurants and where humans will always win

Full episode linked in the comments 👇