Spark New York - Restaurant Innovation Starts Here

Monday, September 18th, 2023
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM (ET)
Lavan 641 Midtown 641 W 42nd St New York, NY 10036

Join local restaurant industry peers IN-PERSON for an afternoon of networking, education, appetizers, and drinks – served by Toast!

We recognize that restaurants are experiencing an essential period of reinvention to combat rising costs, ever-changing guest expectations, and a challenging labor environment. That is why we are excited to share and discuss our industry insights with the local restaurant community - including restaurant owners and managers who may be exploring Toast, as well as our existing Toast customers. Come discuss your biggest challenges with restaurant people who get it and build lasting industry connections that help you thrive.

Toast’s latest restaurant tech is designed to help restaurants take control in a time where the cost of doing business is harder than ever. See it all in action at Spark New York!

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Spark is live! Innovation starts here

Agenda

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Doors Open

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm

Executive Welcome

Presenter: Steve Fredette (Co-Founder & President)

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Keynote

What your Guests & Employees Want: 10 Critical Takeaways for your Business from our 2023 Market Research

Presenter: Julie Gregg (Director, Market Insights & Competitive Intelligence)

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Customer Panel

Reimagining the Guest and Employee Experience: Successful Strategies from Real Restaurants

Moderator: Alana Murphy (Senior Manager, Customer Marketing)

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Toast Panel

From Insights to Action: Your Top Guest and Employee Experience Questions Answered

4:45 pm - 6:00 pm

Family Meal - Happy Hour

Visit the Toast Tech Bar, Toast Shop, Toast Community, Toast Referrals, and our Partner Pavilion featuring Google, Incentivio, 7Shifts, Raydiant and Lineup.ai.

Featured Toast speakers

Steve Fredette

Toast

Co-Founder & President

Julie Gregg

Toast

Director, Market Insights & Competitive Intelligence

Alana Murphy

Toast

Senior Manager, Customer Marketing

Toast customer panel

From Insights to Action: Your Top Guest & Employee Experience Questions Answered

Carmine Di Giovanni

TPG Consulting Corp

Founder

Mark Lee

Rokstar Chicken

Owner & Operator

Tanisha Woolard

Prime 623

Owner

Ryan Klepper

H&H Bagels

Director of Opps

Featured Toast partners

Google

Order with Google enables food merchants and providers to accept online orders from customers viewing their Business Profile on Google Search and Maps.

Incentivio

Incentivio is a cloud based mobile-first marketing platform that allows restaurants to create highly personalized relationships with their customers.

7Shifts

7shifts and Toast work together to provide restaurant employee scheduling and labor management tools that save time, reduce labor costs, and streamline communication.

Raydiant

Deliver high-impact in-location experiences at scale. Easily manage your digital menus and signage using Raydiant's cloud-based experience platform.

Lineup.ai

Lineup.ai is a software solution for restaurants that helps them prepare for demand by creating dynamic, real-time, automated AI and machine-learning powered sales, labor, and item-level inventory forecasts specific to each location.

Toast is a proud supporter of Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) a New York–based nonprofit that provides underserved youth a pathway to success through their culinary programs that prepare students for higher education and careers in the food industry. Your attendance at Spark New York can make an impact! For every registration, Toast.org will make a $10 donation to C-CAP, and for every post from the event using #ToastSparkNY, we'll make an additional donation to support C-CAP and more than 20,000 teens pursuing culinary careers.

Join us at Spark New York!

Connect with your local restaurant community
Network with peers and restaurant industry leaders
Learn about technology fueling restaurant growth

Additional Perks:

Complimentary garage parking near the venue
Free Lyft rides within a 25 mile radius of the venue
Delicious appetizers from a local Toast Customer
Happy hour with full-service complimentary cocktails

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