The restaurant industry is entering a new era. AI is changing how brands understand guests, run kitchens, build loyalty, train teams, and decide where to grow. The Restaurant AI & Technology Report helps leaders separate useful advances from expensive distractions.

Hosted by Paul Barron, the show brings together decades of foodservice technology coverage with his work in AI, blockchain, crypto, and emerging media. Barron has tracked the rise of fast casual, documented the technologies reshaping restaurant operations, and built a reputation for asking what new systems will mean for businesses and the people who use them.

Each episode explores the decisions facing restaurant executives now:

• AI in operations: forecasting, labor, inventory, drive-thru, and kitchen workflows

• The changing guest: consumer sentiment, value, discovery, and loyalty

• Technology and payments: ordering platforms, automation, digital wallets, and new transaction models

• Brand growth: emerging concepts, expansion strategy, unit economics, and investment signals

• What comes next: robotics, agent-driven commerce, blockchain, and the technologies moving from experiment to deployment

Through interviews, reporting, and analysis, Barron connects the technology to its business impact: what is working, what remains unproven, and what leaders should watch next.

If you lead a restaurant brand, invest in foodservice, or build technology for the industry, watch and listen to stay ahead of the decisions that will define its next decade.