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  • Kiosk Ordering Provider Bite Raises $9M as Kiosks Hit ‘Inflection Point’

    Kiosk Ordering Provider Bite Raises $9M as Kiosks Hit ‘Inflection Point’

    Restaurant interest in the technology is growing as labor costs rise. Bite said the fundraise will help it meet the demand.

    Kiosk ordering provider Bite has raised $9 million to help it grow, the company announced Tuesday.

    The Series A funding round led by Staley Capital is a big endorsement for Bite and for kiosks, which have seen growing interest from restaurants as they look to operate more efficiently amid rising costs.

    “There’s always a natural inflection point when a nice-to-have becomes a must-have, and I think some of the macro explains that,” Bite CEO Brandon Barton said in an interview.

  • Bite Raises $9M

    Bite Raises $9M

    The kiosk provider will invest in scaling its solutions with new and existing partners and scaling its technology capabilities, including its patented AI solution that analyzes each order in real-time to offer personalized upsell recommendations.

    Bite, a provider of kiosk solutions for fast-casual and quick-service restaurants, has secured $9 million in Series A funding. 

    Bite’s self-service kiosk software provides the ability to drive digital ordering at fast-casual and quick-serve restaurants.  Bite’s in-store ordering platform currently helps more than 1,100 restaurant locations improve labor efficiencies and leverage powerful personalization, resulting in check sizes growing by an average of 20%. Bite’s software is highly customizable, user-friendly, and seamlessly integrates into existing tech stacks, ensuring improved order accuracy, increased throughput, and enhanced customer satisfaction.

    “The restaurant industry is facing a very challenging environment, struggling to generate profits in the midst of an unprecedented labor shortage, rising minimum wages and cost inflation,” said Brandon Barton, CEO of Bite. “Bite’s self-service kiosk software gives restaurants the tools to succeed in this environment, by leveraging our technology for tasks that can be digitized and reallocating labor to higher priority responsibilities, including greeting guests, preparing food and managing the handoff of completed orders.” 

    Barton added: “Coupled with our use of AI to personalize the ordering experience, we are also able to help offset increasing labor costs by driving higher average checks per order.”

  • Buona Beef Selects Samsung Kiosk for Its Digital Transformation

    Buona Beef Selects Samsung Kiosk for Its Digital Transformation

    This case study originally appeared on Samsung’s Food & Beverage Insights.

    The Challenge

    Buona Beef, the family-owned and operated Italian beef restaurant, was keen to respond to customers’ changing technological needs to drive business growth and address supply chain issues and labor shortages. The company needed compact, stylish, and customizable solutions that would help improve the customer experience and drive loyalty. In 2021, the company embarked on a digital transformation strategy, looking to add more convenient technology to its various locations in Illinois, including self-service kiosks and menu displays to make for easy ordering. 

    The Solution

    Samsung Kiosks offered a two-fold solution for Buona Beef as a way to address labor shortages and improve the customer experience. Deployed at Buona Beef’s 27 locations, customers can seamlessly interact with the self-service kiosk in the same way they would a cashier. Using Bite, a leading digital ordering software, the kiosks put customers in control of their orders and enable users to browse menus and discover new items. Operationally, Samsung Kiosks and Samsung’s digital menu boards let Buona Beef streamline services, showcase products, run promotions, share its brand story, and enable rapid menu updates across all of the locations.

  • The Digital Advantage

    The Digital Advantage

    More retailers are embracing in-store kiosk and mobile ordering for menu items — and seeing a corresponding lift in sales.