Sponsors

Champion is a fully integrated, omni-channel marketing agency powered by a team of 50 professionals who are experts in their respective fields and driven by a common purpose – to be an indispensable partner to our clients. From PR and digital media to franchise lead gen and crisis management, Champion is the agency of choice for America’s top restaurant brands.

Since 2010, InMarket has connected brands and customers when and where it matters most. Through InMarket's industry-leading real-time marketing and measurement platform, brands can drive growth, optimize spend, and close the loop between consumer intent and purchase with unique, real-time, actionable intent, location, and item-level commerce data.

Push works with restaurant brands who are not content with the status quo. Using consumer insights and revenue-driving creative, media and social media, our expertise drives growth-oriented brands to achieve benchmark levels of guest traffic, loyalty, same-store-sales, and average check. We work with QSR, fast casual, casual and fine-dining brands such as Smalls Sliders, Paris Baguette, Keke’s Breakfast Cafe, Cinnabon, McAlister’s Deli, Yard House and The Capital Grille.

Bikky is a customer data platform for multi-location restaurants. We help brands like Dave's Hot Chicken, Krystal, and Eggs Up Grill use customer data to understand the success of every marketing, menu, and operational decision. Brands on Bikky see double-digit same store sales increases after launch, driven by better decisions that improve profitability and the customer experience.

direct2you specializes in targeted direct mail postcard advertising, offering detailed back-end analysis. We capture your customers’ addresses and demographic data. This allows you to compile a customer database and create a marketing roadmap for the future. Our programs far outperform industry redemptions, ensuring a strong ROI. Our clients view us as an extension of their team - acting as their dedicated direct mail marketing department. Partner with d2u to drive growth in 2025!

Imaginuity transforms the marketing investment of franchise restaurant brands. We combine AI-powered audience targeting, dynamic media performance dashboards and scalable website technology, to optimize marketing spend. We turn limited budgets into powerful growth engines, delivering more effective campaigns, better customer experiences and increased online and foot traffic to your locations.

Nift, a marketing channel, has revolutionized customer acquisition for restaurant groups. We move beyond traditional advertising, offering a unique and measurable approach that feels like a thank-you gift. Through Nift, restaurant groups drive awareness, new customer database growth and trackable traffic into the restaurants with a strong ROI.

Qubriux helps small, medium & large chain restaurants thrive by turning casual diners into loyal advocates. Our AI-powered platform analyzes customer data to personalize engagement, predict needs, and automate targeted campaigns. We empower restaurants to build lasting relationships that drive repeat visits and boost revenue. Qubriux goes beyond basic loyalty programs, fostering genuine connections that keep customers coming back for more.

Azira LLC, a global Consumer Insights platform, helps marketing and operational leaders improve their effectiveness with actionable intelligence to drive business results. Its mission is to create a more relevant world where brands are empowered to reach and build relationships with their consumers. Azira delivers innovative marketing solutions to curate audiences, activate omnichannel campaigns, and understand footfall attribution. It also provides operational insights.

EnvisionWorks, Inc. is a consulting, tech, and omni-channel marketing firm helping multi-location restaurant groups and franchise brands streamline brand asset and marketing collateral management. Our ONEWORKS platform centralizes internal ordering, simplifies workflows, strengthens brand consistency, and optimizes marketing operations—eliminating chaos and inefficiency in one powerful, user-friendly solution built for growth.

Ovation is a multi-unit operations tool designed to enhance guest feedback for restaurants. Using a 2-question, SMS-based survey as a “digital table touch” and frictionless integrations with over online ordering platforms and 50+ other tools, Ovation allows restaurants to easily resolve guest concerns in real-time, get more 5-star reviews, discover insights to improve, and drive revenue.

MediaDex is a media buying agency. We make our impact by focusing on strategy, buying and reporting remarkable results across all channels. Headquartered in Cincinnati, with offices across the country, MediaDex has been achieving efficient growth for our clients, in more than 150 U.S. markets, for over 25 years. Our mission is to move growing companies to the next level through more affordable, and smarter, media buying decisions. Media moves that matter.

Fast Casual is the global online leader for news, analysis, blogs and research in the worldwide fast casual restaurant industry.

Food Truck Operator was launched in 2017 to meet the needs of the thriving food truck industry. The new digital property covers industry trends and news, profiles business owners, and explores the technologies and tools available to help operators grow their businesses.

Kathleen Wood Partners is an innovative, award-winning team of growth strategy experts. For over two decades, KWP has partnered with multi-unit restaurant concepts to accelerate their growth with proven strategies and customized solutions. Trusted by industry leaders like Raising Cane’s, Walk-On’s, Tap Room Long Island, and many more, KWP provides leaders with a competitive edge to accelerate scalability and achieve long-term success in an ever-changing industry.

Pizza Marketplace is the premier online destination for C-level pizza executive leadership seeking cutting-edge intelligence for their multi-unit restaurant concepts.

QSRweb delivers fast-breaking news, features and analysis on the quick-service restaurant industry.

Rewards That Matter brings awareness to consumers of the hundreds of loyalty programs available across markets in restaurants, retail, travel, banking, entertainment and more. The site offers insight on loyalty program news and rewards program updates. Brands can submit their loyalty programs for inclusion on RewardsThatMatter.com via a convenient online form.