SevenRooms Is Building an Alexa Skill for Restaurant Operators


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Amazon's Alexa has already proven its value to consumers at home, but integrating voice technology into front of house restaurant operations could be a true time-saver for busy staff.

New York-based hospitality technology company SevenRooms is harnessing the power of voice. The company announced an investment from Amazon's Alexa Fund, earmarked to build an Alexa skill for restaurant operations. SevenRooms founder and CEO, Joel Montaniel, explained his company's voice-first approach here. "It's not necessarily voice taking over everything, but voice being the preferred kind of channel for getting things done," he said. "Voice-powered technology is already impacti