Las Vegas is home to the top-grossing restaurant in the United States, Tao, along with 13 other high-volume players from the Top 100. The city hosts several celebrity chefs and leading multiconcept operators.
Taste Tracker: Burgerville, Smashburger and Panera show off sandwiches; spring sips at Black Sheep Coffee, Ziggi’s and Paris Baguette; and Kolache Factory, Velvet Taco and Wienerschnitzel mix it up.
Tech Check: Quantiiv’s first product is ROGER, a bot designed to help restaurants make data-driven decisions. For one customer, “he’s literally replaced having a data analyst.”
The Bottom Line: The services are growing dominant, giving them considerable power in negotiations. And traffic-hungry brands have little choice but to do the deals. But they create enormous problems.
