#20 Parsa Riahi : The Grassroots AI Tech Giving Power Back to Restaurateurs

 

“Most restaurant owners are bleeding money, and they don’t even know it. In today’s episode, I sit down with Parsa Riahi, the CTO of DYNE, to talk about the AI tool that’s quietly revolutionizing restaurants across North America. We’re talking automated marketing, demand forecasting, and competitor analysis…things that used to take a full-time team, now handled by what he calls your ‘digital employee.’ If you’ve ever scribbled prep notes on a grease-stained legal pad and thought, ‘There has to be a better way’ then this episode is for you.”

Expect to Learn:

• Why most restaurants are overspending on tech that doesn’t deliver
• How AI is quietly reshaping restaurant marketing and operations
• The real reason mom-and-pops are losing to chains—and how to flip the script
• What happens when you give a small restaurant big-league forecasting tools
• How to turn slow Tuesday mornings into Friday night rushes using demand trends
• Why “every hour is a happy hour” might be more than just a slogan

 

Links:

⁠Dyne.app⁠ 

 

 

Service starts now.

I talk mostly to people in and around the service industry space. I'm looking to hear from the people I wish I could have talked to when I was coming up in restaurants. Said another way: I am trying to make sense of this wild, beautiful mess of a life, and help others that are feeling similarly confused and/or lost. 

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As always, I’m just here taking notes, trying to figure out what it all means.

Cheers