Location Intelligence

Investing in a franchise is an excellent way to build your own business under the umbrella of an established and trusted brand. However, as with any business opportunity, it’s important to ask the right questions before you make an investment decision.

At 8:30 A.M. we will begin a round table discussion on “How Machine Learning has changed site selection and how franchise systems can benefit from it.” We will also be hosting Happy Hour at Jackson’s Bistro Wednesday, September 12th. If you want to meet up, we’re headquartered minutes away from the Hilton. Email us at info@sitezeus.com.

Restaurant chains such as Subway are tapping AI-powered tech such as SiteZeus to help them optimize revenue at new or relocating restaurants. Using artificial intelligence, Tampa, Florida-based SiteZeus is providing multiunit restaurant operators predictive modeling that can be used to select optimal locations for earning revenue — even if the location doesn’t make sense on paper. In other words, even premium commercial sites, often dubbed “A” retail centers or malls, might not work for certain brands, marketing director Jorge Hermez said.

Join us September 6th, at 1 P.M. ET to see this one-of-a-kind feature. Keenan Baldwin, SiteZeus Co-Founder, will walk us through Franchise Permissioning and Territory Management as well as common use cases. At the end of the session, we will hold a short Q&A, so be sure to wait through the end.

Whether you’re exhibiting or attending, trade shows are an excellent opportunity to make connections, generate leads and close deals.

Shake’s Frozen Custard has been serving smiles and delicious frozen treats since 1991, now with dozens of locations throughout the South, Mid-South and Southeast regions of the US. Forward thinking and creativity have fueled Shake’s growth and led the company to receive recognition as one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Franchises— and SiteZeus is the latest tool to keep Shake’s at the cusp of innovation.

A whimsical, worldly, and well-disposed thirteen-year-old: seemingly a wonderful and wealthy opportunity for any retailer. However, this opportunity, which we now understand as the Generation Z shopper, comes with new challenges associated with an unfolding, untested digital marketplace. Staying ahead of the curve of consumption is crucial as Generation Z teens begin to shop en masse.

Plenty of celebrities have launched restaurants over the years; now, the Wahlberg family is coming in hot into the restaurant scene with fresh branding and delicious homemade burgers.

TAMPA, Fla. (August 2, 2018) — SiteZeus, a leader in location intelligence technology solutions, today announced it has hired Larry Salinas as its new Business Development, Sales Engineer. In addition, Salinas will leverage his years of experience as an end user in the retail industry to help SiteZeus refine its products and improve on functionality that can better serve client needs.

Forward thinking retailers are increasingly embracing big data in their business decisions when choosing new store locations. Using INRIX big data, site-selection companies help retailers pinpoint their target demographics and see where shoppers are coming from and analyze the potential profitability of millions of retail locations.

TAMPA, Fla. (April 27, 2018) — After a year of major growth, SiteZeus, the leading SaaS site-selection platform for retail industries, is taking home another win. SiteZeus CTO Chuck Cooper represented the startup at the second annual Chicago Machine Learning VC Summit where he competed against other machine-learning companies in a pitch to a crowd of entrepreneurs, developers and prospective customers. The event hosted over 600 attendees and 20 speakers in 2017.

What do chicken wings, casual dining, and NOLA-inspired cuisine have in common? If they fall under the banner of Ballard Brands, we must be talking about the company’s Creole-influenced Wow Cafes, Boardhouse Serious Sandwiches, The Original City Diners, and the one-two combo of PJ’s Coffee of New Orleans and New Orleans Roast Coffee and Tea. Begun by brothers Paul, Scott, and Steve Ballard in 2012 and today consisting of 150 outlets, this culinary tribute to their home state of Louisiana is spreading the good word, and good food, of the area around the world.