Hospitality Professionals Reveal Their Favorite Technology

BentoBox is all about connecting restaurants with technology that helps them succeed in their mission of hospitality. To understand better the way technology interacts with restaurants and the people who run them, we ask one important question whenever we meet someone around the industry:

What is your favorite piece of technology — work-related or not — and how has it changed your life?

Ana Castro

Acamaya
New Orleans, LA

I am gonna go ahead and say my Apple Watch because of timers and the ability to reply with text messages and calls with voice command! Also, I would die without my laptop probably.

Caroline Schiff

Gage & Tollner
Brooklyn, NY

Slack has been really great for me in terms of communication with my whole team. It just keeps us all on the same page from menu updates, to shift changes, all on one platform!

Bleu Adams

Indigehub.org
Provo, UT

The “Meater” gifted to me by Niman Ranch is hands down my favorite tech gadget right now. It's like my cooking sidekick, helping me nail every meat dish, especially when it comes to perfect smoked salmon.

Emily Schultz

BentoBox
Brooklyn, NY

My electric kettle because it provides me with coffee, which allows me to ~actually~ do my job.

Arjav Ezekiel

Birdie’s
Austin, TX

The sleep function on my phone has helped me wind down and get more sleep, so that's the tool that helps me spend less time with my phone and more on what I value the most.

Bradford Knight

New York, NY

Lately, my favorite piece of technology is a pair of Cut Resistance Gloves that were given to me as a gift. I don’t use them much for knife work, but they are an absolute game changer for using any sort of grater or mandolin. You can vigorously and confidently grate foods without the fear of leaving skin behind.

Colby Kingston

BentoBox
Brooklyn, NY

My cell phone! I literally don't understand how people ran restaurants when they didn't have a communication tool in their pocket. I can connect with vendors, my staff can shoot me a text if they're running late, I can even do a lot of my marketing all without having to leave the restaurant.

Clau Capriles

Athena Keke’s
Brooklyn, NY

My phone. My family lives in Bolivia and being able to talk/text them at any time is great.