Pickpad AI Startup Aims To Improve Customer And Worker Experience At Fast Casual Restaurants
The post Pickpad AI Startup Aims To Improve Customer And Worker Experience At Fast Casual Restaurants appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Pickpad Pickpad It’s more common today to see a restaurant closure than a new restaurant opening. It’s the unfortunate state of the restaurant industry. Fast food and fast casual chains often thrive in uncertain climates, but even that sector is having trouble adapting with the new digital reality that they now find themselves in. Sweetgreen, for example, now fulfills more digital orders than in-person orders. And chains like Starbucks have been making big changes to its business model to streamline operations and elevate the customer experience. Pickpad is a B2B hardware and software solution that aims to bridge this divide, making digital orders more accurate and efficient to make customers happier and employees less overworked, ultimately making businesses more money. Founded by engineer Yaro Tsyhanenko in 2024 after fleeing his war-torn Ukraine and re-establishing himself in the US, Pickpad solves what he believes is a $40 billion problem. Pickpad founder Yaro Tsyhanenko Pickpad The New Reality Of Digital Orders While living in Chernihiv, Ukraine, north of Kyiv, Tsyhanenko had been creating tech solutions for the restaurant industry for many years, including Ukrainian versions of delivery services like DoorDash. He would branch out based on the data collected from that service to create Ghost Kitchens in several cities to prepare food for those services. Russia surrounded his city on the very first day of the war, pivoting his businesses to deliver emergency aid before moving he and his family to Ireland. After a year there, he settled down in Chicago, where he visited dozens of restaurants and coffee shops to find out what their biggest challenges were in terms of digital orders. “I was sitting with my stopwatch, taking notes, talking to every general manager,” he says. “I noticed that there was a disconnection between physical and digital worlds in every…
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Pickpad Pickpad It’s more common today to see a restaurant closure than a new restaurant opening. It’s the unfortunate state of the restaurant industry. Fast food and fast casual chains often thrive in uncertain climates, but even that sector is having trouble adapting with the new digital reality that they now find themselves in. Sweetgreen, for example, now fulfills more digital orders than in-person orders. And chains like Starbucks have been making big changes to its business model to streamline operations and elevate the customer experience. Pickpad is a B2B hardware and software solution that aims to bridge this divide, making digital orders more accurate and efficient to make customers happier and employees less overworked, ultimately making businesses more money. Founded by engineer Yaro Tsyhanenko in 2024 after fleeing his war-torn Ukraine and re-establishing himself in the US, Pickpad solves what he believes is a $40 billion problem. Pickpad founder Yaro Tsyhanenko Pickpad The New Reality Of Digital Orders While living in Chernihiv, Ukraine, north of Kyiv, Tsyhanenko had been creating tech solutions for the restaurant industry for many years, including Ukrainian versions of delivery services like DoorDash. He would branch out based on the data collected from that service to create Ghost Kitchens in several cities to prepare food for those services. Russia surrounded his city on the very first day of the war, pivoting his businesses to deliver emergency aid before moving he and his family to Ireland. After a year there, he settled down in Chicago, where he visited dozens of restaurants and coffee shops to find out what their biggest challenges were in terms of digital orders. “I was sitting with my stopwatch, taking notes, talking to every general manager,” he says. “I noticed that there was a disconnection between physical and digital worlds in every…
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