RTN Workgroups

RTN WORKGROUPS are innovative think-tanks, where all RTN members have a seat at the table. Technology companies and restaurateurs roll up sleeves together, and collaborate to solve real-world challenges. By joining the workgroups, you can shape the future of restaurant technology, using your voice, tech talent and brand influence contributing to best practices, technical guidance and industry standards. Those who lead gain elevated visibility as thought leaders in the industry, and often times are tapped to speak at events, like MURTEC.

JOIN ANYTIME. You don't have to be in the workgroup the entire lifecycle. Join mid-stream. Be a fly on the wall. Lead the entire group. The level and intensity of your participation is entirely up to you. Our workgroups are friendly, welcoming spaces.

RTN Share Groups are topic-specific communities designed to foster collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and peer-driven discussions. Each Share Group focuses on a key industry theme, rotating topics to ensure relevance and dynamic engagement.

These groups provide a platform for members to:

Discuss industry challenges and trends in areas such as labor, back-of-house operations, AI, and more.
Exchange insights, experiences, and best practices with peers facing similar opportunities and obstacles.
Engage in open, interactive discussions allowing for a fluid exchange of ideas.

By expanding the diversity of Share Groups, we create more opportunities for solution providers to contribute, while ensuring restaurant operators have access to a wider range of perspectives and expertise.

Our mission is 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.

Mission:

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.

I connected with Robert Peterson after our call today, and we discussed both types of companies and positions that would be ideal to participate in this workgroup.

Companies:

POS
Loyalty
Back Office
Small Vendor Companies, such as those deploying AI solutions

Positions:

Partner Managers
Integration Managers
Sales Leadership
Marketing Leadership
Any folks who can be educated on the standards and help advance adoption and enable integrations.

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