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With nearly 50 locations spanning the East Coast and the Midwest, Wings Etc. is the ultimate family-friendly and overall fun sports bar, serving award-winning wings, cold beer and great vibes. Founded in 1994 in Indiana, the restaurant chain offers a full-service grill and pub with a relaxed atmosphere that has successfully competed with even the biggest sports bar chains.

Big data, analytics and the Internet of Things are creeping into all aspects of business operations these days from staffing and inventory management to real estate and social media strategy. Many franchisors are finding it is time to jump on the trend or risk getting left behind.

Located in Tampa, Florida, SiteZeus® is a startup company developing a cloud-based location intelligence platform that is intended to help businesses locate and capitalize on profitable opportunities. The company’s flagship service, SiteZeus Synergy, is a big-data GIS platform that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help businesses visualize market potential and analyze the specific features driving their local, regional, and national sales. In other words, Synergy will help you predict store revenues for your existing business locations, as well as analyze which locations will be the most profitable to open new stores, ultimately helping brands mitigate risks and increase profitability.

In many ways, technology has leveled the playing field between companies and their consultants, and has blurred the lines between insourcing and outsourcing. If a company uses in-house software created by a third party, is that outsourcing? And if a consulting firm builds and maintains a proprietary system for a company, is that still insourcing? And which route offers the best time-for-value and ROI?...

TAMPA, Fla. (May 2, 2017) — SiteZeus, a leading location intelligence platform aimed at optimizing business decisions, was honored as the recipient of two bronze Stevie® Awards for the 15th Annual American Business Awards today, for “Best Software Product of the Year” and “Tech Startup of the Year.”

DALLAS, Texas (APRIL 25, 2017) — Black Box Intelligence, a TDn2K company, has partnered with leading SaaS location intelligence technology platform SiteZeus®. Black Box Intelligence average unit volume data will integrate and enhance the SiteZeus platform, making it easier than ever for brands, brokers and developers to screen markets based on actual restaurant revenue performance.

Did you miss “Man vs. Machine” at this year’s Restaurant Leadership Conference? In case you did, we’ve put this video recap together, filled with golden nuggets from the industry’s best. That includes leaders from INRIX, Restaurant Magic, Epson, and SiteZeus.

Retail e-commerce is one of the biggest revenue making sectors of the enterprise and if you don’t know that already take a quick look at Alibaba and Amazon. Online shopping is yet another sector that is slowly and surely being transformed by AI and scientific breakthroughs have opened the doors for vast amounts of data to be leveraged in the retail market. This big data makes it possible to have AI powered interactions with customers that involve product recommendation, customized searches and even personal assistance.

Called the “Sexiest job of the year” by the Harvard Business Review and listed as the number-one best job in America on Glassdoor’s most desirable jobs list for 2016, data scientists are here and in high demand. The postings for such job positions on hiring sites like LinkedIn read like a who’s-who of CPG and QSR: Starbucks, Arby’s, General Mills, Miller Coors, Kohl’s, Macys, and the list goes on.

This has been an eventful first quarter for SiteZeus, and we’ve added a handful of new features, data bundles, and nuances to the Synergy platform. Below you’ll find a handful of these premium additions:

Join us at this year’s Restaurant Leadership Conference, on April 10th at 2:15pm – Grand Sonoran C. We’ll be kicking off the conference at our breakout session, where Tyler Carlson, VP of Sales at SiteZeus, will be running a panel session with Keenan Baldwin, Co-CEO & Co-Founder of SiteZeus, Steven Roberts Founder & President of Restaurant Magic, and Kevin Foreman GM for GeoAnalytics with INRIX, Inc. We’ll be taking a deeper dive into the challenges facing the restaurant industry…

What’s a heuristic? In layman’s terms, it’s judging a book by its cover. It’s when you decide on something based on limited information, just like Pavlov’s dog salivating when it hears a bell. As humans, we use this approach constantly because it’s incredibly efficient. Instead of watching an entire movie, we first look at the trailer. Before eating an entire meal, we first look at the menu. And when choosing retail locations, we simply glance at ten or so factors, make a call, and call it a day.