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Kevin Boehm and the Wendy’s lunch that never ended
Before the James Beard Award and the dining rooms of BOKA Restaurant Group, there was a water refill at a roadside Wendy’s. Kevin Boehm has been thinking about it ever since.
The Restaurant Group That Refuses to Look Like a Chain
BOKA built a national hospitality business by making each restaurant feel singular. Behind the scenes, a shared operating machine lets chefs, designers and service teams do the visible work.
TabSquare.AI
TabSquare.AI is a Singapore-based restaurant technology company that builds an AI-powered digital ordering and customer engagement platform for the food and beverage industry. Its SmartTab tablet menus, self-service kiosks, QR-code web ordering and marketing tools use AI to deliver personalized menu recommendations, streamline ordering and payment, and lift restaurant revenue. Founded in 2012 by three INSEAD graduates, TabSquare serves thousands of outlets across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Europe, and has been a wholly owned subsidiary of global food-delivery group Delivery Hero since 2021.
Harri
Harri is a cloud-based human capital management and workforce management platform built specifically for the hospitality and frontline service industries. Founded in 2012 by hospitality operators, it unifies talent acquisition, onboarding, scheduling, time and attendance, compliance, and employee engagement into a single mobile-first system. Harri serves enterprise restaurants, hotels, and retailers - powering the operational backbone for tens of thousands of locations and millions of frontline workers, helping high-turnover, multi-location businesses hire faster, control labor costs, and keep teams engaged.
Innowi Inc.
Innowi Inc. is a Santa Clara, California restaurant-technology company that builds an all-in-one point-of-sale and ordering platform. Its stack spans POS, self-service kiosks, tabletop QR ordering, online ordering and delivery, a kitchen display system, marketing and rewards, analytics, and employee management - designed to help independent and multi-location restaurants cut third-party commission fees, sync orders across channels, and run leaner operations.
Radiate Hospitality
Radiate Hospitality is a Palo Alto-based hotel and real-estate management company that develops, renovates, and operates a portfolio of boutique and branded hotels across the West Coast. Formerly known as BPR Properties, the firm runs 11 hotels with roughly 988 rooms - from the Autograph Collection Hi-Lo Hotel in Portland to the Crowne Plaza Cabana in Palo Alto - guided by a mission of 'passionately creating a sense of belonging.'