Mike Lukianoff, Founder/CEO @ Signalflare

17/11/2025 14 min

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Episode Synopsis

Today on 🍔Restaurant 🤖Tech 📈Trends we sit down with one of the sharpest minds in restaurant analytics: Michael Lukianoff, Founder and CEO of SignalFlare.ai. If you care about pricing, menu architecture, or the future of decision intelligence in restaurants, this episode is a must-watch.📺WATCH AND LEARN📺👉 Why the “last mile” of analytics has always been the industry’s Achilles’ heel and how Signalflare’s new Navigator product turns messy, multi-source data into simple, actionable decisions for non-technical operators👉 How mobile data, credit card panels, and true trade-area modeling reveal that restaurant overcapacity and margin compression are structural problems, not temporary ones👉 Why Mike believes most enterprises will need to rethink old data warehouse assumptions and why the next generation of restaurant tech requires a clean-slate approach to learning systems👉 How AI becomes smarter only when operators treat it like a learning partnership rather than a one-click magic solution. It is not plug and play. It is raise and teach.➕ PLUS: Mike explains why mispriced add-ons quietly destroy margins, why menu architecture deserves more attention, and why every great operator should use AI to learn, not to automate.Huge thanks to Mike for breaking down how decision intelligence is evolving and what restaurants must do to stay ahead in a demand-shifting, overbuilt market. This one is packed with clarity and operator-first insights. 🚀