Kimmie Dunlay, Sr Director Foodservice @ Kept Companies

The dirtiest corner of any restaurant tells you everything about how it's run, and Kimmie Dunlay has built a career on the infrastructure nobody sees to keep 'em clean. Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends I sit down with the Senior Director of Food Service Strategy and Growth at Kept Companies, the nationwide self-performing facility partner keeping restaurant and grocery brands clean, safe, and open. Kimmie came up through restaurant ops and never lost the belief that what happens behind the line matters as much as what happens on it. 📺WATCH AND LEARN📺 👉 Why "self-performing" service is the whole ballgame for national consistency 👉 How AutoMist brings real technology to the very antiquated world of hood cleaning, and actually lowers insurance premiums 👉 The shift from reactive to preventative, and why the facilities function has to stop being seen as a cost center 👉 What "facilities intelligence" really means + data on your operation you probably don't have access to today 👉 The AI vision for turning 800 before-and-after job photos into instant answers on whether the work got done Shout outs to CarePro Painting, Restaurant Technologies, and Ecolab for the help along the way. ➕ PLUS the rapid fire round, where Kimmie reveals the hidden talent nobody on her team knows about This one opened my eyes to a corner of the industry I knew close to zero about, and Kimmie made it fascinating. Give it a watch and let me know what you think