Skift Table’s Top Restaurant Tech Startups to Watch 2018
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Our inaugural list of top tech startups in 2018 contains best-of-breed examples from the kitchen to the host stand and beyond. Restaurant tech is a complicated and fast-growing landscape full of well-intentioned ideas, but success today and beyond lies in the execution of those ideas in a human-powered industry.
If you're a chef, an owner, or an investor, you may be fearful to bet on tech. New software may sound great, but will it actually get used by your team? And will it last or go the way of Betamax or Polaroid, becoming irrelevant?
With those worries in mind, we reviewed dozens and dozens of young tech companies. We then collected only the top startups we feel confident have built solutions in 2018 that are the operational equivalents of sous vide cooking and the at-home immersion circulator: they'll still be essential tools for years to come. In short: You got this tech thing, and we got your back.
This list is Skift Table's first attempt at spotlighting the most impressive new or little-known restaurant tech startups.
We are drawing on the knowledge we have gained through five years of coverage of hundreds of newly launched startups in travel, events, hospitality, and restaurants, both at Skift Table and our sister site, Skift.
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