RTN Workgroups

Workgroups are hyper-focused, technical collaborations where technology suppliers work together to develop tangible outcomes such as data standards, frameworks, and best practices. Restaurants provide strategic guidance while tech suppliers deliver expertise.

Participation is flexible — join anytime and contribute as much or as little as you like. Leading or contributing to a workgroup provides visibility as a thought leader in the industry, often leading to speaking opportunities at events like MURTEC.

Frequency: Twice per month
Length: 1 hour

TOPIC: The Tech Playbook: Scaling Your Brand from 1 to 3,000+ Locations

Join us as we continue last month's Town Hall conversation and learn how to scale your brand from 1 to 3,000+!

Our last Town Hall on scaling restaurant technology was a huge success, sparking a dynamic conversation about the journey from one location to thousands. Now, we're taking the next step.

We're hosting a new RTN Share Group, where we'll turn that discussion into action. This is a unique opportunity to see how leading technology providers are building solutions to help brands just like yours achieve massive growth.

In a series of short, powerful presentations, our members will share how their technology can help you tackle the biggest challenges of scaling. You'll hear about:

Building Trust with Your Franchisees: How to roll out technology in phases, starting with a small investment that delivers a massive return.
Empowering Your Teams: Innovative ways to gamify front-line roles and use new tools to give people a clear path to success and recognition.
Bringing in AI Solutions: Discover self-contained, high-value AI platforms that bring real business intelligence to smaller operators, no dedicated IT team required.
Streamlining Your Tech Stack: Learn how to use a core platform to simplify a complex mix of technologies and build a cohesive system that scales with you.
Mastering Connectivity: We'll dive into the critical topic of network redundancy and bandwidth preservation so your key systems never go down.
Deploying Tech with Partner Power: Learn how a strategic IT deployment partner simplifies the process of getting technology into hundreds or thousands of locations.

This isn't just another sales pitch. It’s a continuation of our collaborative conversation, with actionable insights you can apply right away.

Join us and see how the right technology and the right partners can power your path to unprecedented growth.

Work Group: Restaurant Back-of-House Automation

Join the Restaurant Technology Network to revolutionize Back-of-House (BOH) restaurant operations by establishing universal data standards that enable seamless communication and integration across diverse technological systems. As the industry shifts toward automation to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve service quality, the lack of standardized data formats presents a significant challenge to interoperability.

By developing and implementing these standards, we empower restaurants to optimize key operational functions, streamline workflows, enhance communication between kitchen and front-of-house teams, and ensure food quality and service delivery consistency. Our goal is to drive industry-wide innovation, enabling restaurants to fully leverage technology for improved productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction.

Workgroup: Vendor-To-Vendor Integration Assessment

The future of innovation inside the restaurant industry depends on various technology applications integrating smoothly and sharing data seamlessly. RTN's Open API Framework provides a solid foundation for defining what constitutes an Open API. Although many restaurant technology companies have open APIs, they are sometimes controlled by contractual and/or cost-prohibitive business practices that render an open API ineffective and/or inaccessible - especially to the newest innovative technology companies on the scene.

Solution:

This workgroup will collaborate to develop the following initiatives:

RFP Questions to identify cost-prohibitive business practices and assess the adoption of RTN Standards.
An Education Guide to raise awareness of key industry challenges.
A Self-Certification Program to recognize and promote organizations that implement RTN Standards.

These efforts aim to facilitate the seamless, efficient, and equitable integration of vendor solutions into the industry's broader ecosystem of established market solutions.

Who Should Join this Workgroup?

POS
Loyalty
Back Office
Small Vendor Companies, such as those deploying AI solutions
Partner Managers
Integration Managers
Sales Leadership
Marketing Leadership

Any interested in standards, advancing adoption and enabling integrations!

Call for Speakers!