On today's 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sat down with Atul Sood, Fractional Chief Business Officer at Curry Up Now.

Atul co-founded Kitchen United as its first employee, raised over $100M, struck the Kroger deal that put ghost kitchens inside grocery stores, and launched McDonald's global delivery partnerships before that. Now he's helping the pioneer of Indian fast casual gear up for its next chapter. First came Mexican, then Mediterranean… Atul says Indian is the next wave, and Curry Up Now is the next brand. 🌯🔥

📺WATCH AND LEARN📺

👉 How Curry Up Now built a powerful 15-unit brand in the Bay Area and why franchisee interest is now heating up across the country – including in Birmingham, one of my favorite recent stops!

👉 How catering is poised to become an even more monster channel than it is today (~20% of sales – including delivery for up to 250 people on less than 24 hours' notice 😮)

👉 Where Curry Up Now is placing its AI bets and where it's holding the line.

👉 Atul's take on point solutions: ”I don't think they're products. I think they're features.” And why platform plays like Ovation can be so compelling for brands at Curry Up Now's stage of growth

➕ PLUS: Where Atul sees capital flowing in restaurant tech this year, some hard-won founder advice from someone who's lived it, and some protips for founders to keep mental health operating at its peak ❤️

T'was great meeting you Atul and I'm excited to see where Curry Up Now is a year from today! 🚀