6 Takeaways from the 2017 TechTable Summit
Photo Caption: Ideo’s Meija Jacobs speaking at the third annual TechTable Summit, October 17, 2017 in New York
Skift Take
With increasing agreement, restaurants and technologists understand that technology continues to fundamentally change the dining experience from start to finish. What's less clear is the exact path to success.
Yesterday's third annual TechTable Summit in New York brought together business leaders and industry creatives to discuss the evolving use of technology in today's restaurant experience. Here are six important themes from the event that will continue to drive change.
1. Restaurants aren't unlike tech companies.
Chef David Barzelay said he created his award-winning San Francisco restaurant, Lazy Bear, as a response to the problems he found with restaurants. A restaurant's job is to keep people from being bored, he says. He posited that, "when you solve problems by creating innovative solutions, that's technology."
In that vein, his road to business success is not unlike a tech company's: the pop-up restaurant where he got his start is like a startup; his current brick-and-mortar space is the fully-formed company its grown into. This analogy doesn't apply to all restaurants, but it does apply to his — investor-backing and all.
2. Designing
