Dine Brands Global, Inc. operates some of the world’s most recognized restaurant concepts—IHOP, Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill + Bar, and Fuzzy’s Taco Shop—through an extensive franchise network. Join Acting CIO Chris Padilla as he discusses the company’s technology strategy -- including innovative AI deployments -- for enhancing operational efficiency, supporting franchisee success, and improving the guest journey across casual and family dining experiences.

HT presents proprietary data on tech and AI adoption patterns, investment priorities, and operational benchmarks across the industry, with commentary from top restaurant technologists.

MURTEC celebrates the remarkable leaders and trailblazers who are shaping the future of the restaurant technology space and the rising stars who represent the next generation of industry leadership. This engaging session is a must for anyone who’s passionate about innovation.

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This lively, interactive roundtable brings restaurant operators and technology providers together to unpack the tools shaping today’s customer experience—from online ordering and POS to loyalty, payments, and drive-thru innovation. Participants will share real-world challenges, compare solution approaches, and explore opportunities to work smarter together. Bring your questions, ideas, and pain points—this is a conversation designed for collaboration, connection, and breakthroughs.

Join high-impact discussions about the technologies reshaping restaurant operations. This interactive roundtable brings operators and tech innovators together to explore voice-driven workflows, AI-powered decisioning, robotics, automation platforms, and emerging tools that promise to redefine the industry. Participants will compare real-world use cases, surface challenges, and share opportunities to adopt future tech in practical, scalable ways. Bring your curiosity and your questions—this is where the future gets real.

Step into a collaborative conversation where operators and technology partners tackle the biggest opportunities and challenges in back-of-house operations. This interactive roundtable explores kitchen technology, labor optimization, inventory management, financial systems, and emerging tools that keep restaurants running smoothly. Participants will compare workflows, surface pain points, and share solutions that improve efficiency, accuracy, and team performance— get ready for real-world discussion and actionable insights.

This session cuts through the noise to show how computer vision and edge computing and IoT are already improving order accuracy, speeding service, and reducing costs.
 

This session unpacks how tap-to-order, network tokenization, and wallet-linked loyalty are reshaping the economics of guest experience, turning payments from a cost center into a strategic growth lever.

Learn which AI solutions are actually increasing transactions, predicting kitchen bottlenecks, and transforming labor planning. You’ll get a concise framework for matching the right AI tool to the right operational problem.

This storyteller series distills how retail, convenience, lodging, and grocery have built mature, revenue-driving technology programs and shares the playbooks restaurants can adapt now.
 

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