In this episode of the Restaurant Operator Podcast, host Mandy Detwiler, managing editor of Networld Media Group and editor for QSRweb.com and PizzaMarketplace.com, talks to Chris Lybeer, chief strategy and marketing officer for Revel Systems, a cloud-based technology provider, about how tech is changing the restaurant industry today.

Lybeer said it's an exciting time for technology brands in the restaurant space as more restaurants rely on it in both the front and back of the house.

"Costs are going through the roof," Lybeer said when asked what some of the industry's biggest challenges are today. "The cost of everything — the cost of food, the cost of real estate, the cost for labor and so that's putting a lot of stress on the industry and really, in almost any industry — even if you go outside of restaurants — usually when there's pressure on an industry technology is used to make it more efficient."

Lybeer said restaurants have traditionally been behind the curve, but the opportunity and the challenge for restaurants is to figure out how to use technology to battle some of the pressures they're facing.

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