🍩 DONUT WASTE: $3M PROBLEM, MEET YOUR MATCH 🍩

Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I'm joined by Margo Hughes, Executive Director of Business Services at Bluemont Group, a Dunkin' franchisee with ~100 locations across seven states. Margo's become one of the most visible voices in restaurant AI thanks to Do'Cast: the donut forecasting system Bluemont co-developed with PreciTaste that's already cut donut waste by up to 30%. 📉🍩

📺WATCH AND LEARN📺

👉 The wild origin story of Do'Cast

👉 How a $100/day waste problem becomes a $3M+ headache when you scale to 100 stores, and how Bluemont is on track to save another $1M 💰💰💰

👉 Why over-optimizing waste actually means you're "managing your business down" 📉

👉 The hyperlocal demand forecasting variables nobody sees coming: local election days, school field trips, sports games, weather, and that one neighborhood that always sells more sprinkles 🌦️🏈

👉 The puppy analogy every operator evaluating AI needs to hear. 🐶

➕ PLUS: Margo shares what's next on her hit list AND drops a hot take in our rapid fire round on whether AI is more hype or more substance in restaurants right now. You'll have to watch to hear it. 👀

Margo, thank you for the puppy wisdom, and for proving that "small pond" reputations get built one great interview at a time. Now I gotta go try a sour cream donut. 🚀