Feb 27, 2020
In this episode, Hall welcomes Anurag Ahuja of TakeOut7. Anurag
is a serial entrepreneur, founder, and CEO with over 20 years in
the SaaS platform, internet marketing, retail, eCommerce, and data
& analytics.
TakeOut7 is an AI-based platform that handles ordering and
traditional/digital marketing for independent restaurants. By using
TakeOut7’s solutions, restaurants get their online orders directly
to their kitchen printers avoiding the painstaking process of
manual order entry. TakeOut7’s automated, personalized promotions
help restaurants increase their overall revenue by greater than 10%
in less than 1 year - all this at no cost to the restaurant via a
minimal pass-through business model to the consumer.
Anurag talks about what brought him to the tech space, to begin
with, and how he came to the restaurant technology sector. He
advises investors to look for companies that can leverage AI and
data to help automate tasks for independent customers. Anurag
discusses the evolution of the restaurant tech space, and how
consolidations and mergers will affect the sector landscape. He
also highlights some of the challenges in the space, from the
budgetary constraints of independent restaurants, to customers
unfamiliar with or unprepared for digital commerce and online
ordering. Finally, Anurag talks about TakeOut7's business model and
how they are leveraging data and AI to address needs in the
space.