A Recipe for Digital Transformation Success: How to Apply a Fresh Approach to the Restaurant Supply Chain

New multi-party cloud network platforms are helping disrupt the fine and casual dining industry.

The fine and casual dining industry is under tremendous pressures, as restaurant visits and spending are down, and consumers continue to grapple with rising costs and stagnant wages. More importantly, restaurant patrons continue to demand fresh ingredients, plentiful choices, and world-class service at affordable prices. Meanwhile, food safety and sustainability concerns require full traceability of source of supply on an ongoing basis. Simultaneously, businesses have evolved to depend on local distributors supplemented by national distributors and logistics providers. This has led restaurants to lose control of their supply chains because of the increase complexity associated with the growing number of stakeholders that must be coordinated to deliver meals to the consumer on-time.

However, just as ride-share network companies such as Uber have disrupted the taxi industry, new multi-party…