Amlani: Impresario Uses In-Restaurant Video Cameras for Table Heat Mapping
Riyaaz Amlani · Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath · Oct 28, 2023 · at 2:47:28
Riyaaz Amlani, CEO of Impresario Hospitality (Social, Smoke House Deli), discusses how his restaurants use in-store camera technology to optimize seating layouts and analyze customer flows.
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“We use our cameras to do table heat mapping. We've, so so for example, we like to see which are the tables that people like to sit at, which are the tables that get filled first. Our camera technologies are helping us do that.”
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