Presto Phoenix to Provide AI Voice Ordering for Wienerschnitzel

<p><strong>SAN MATEO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Presto Phoenix&comma; a provider of AI-driven solutions for the quick-service restaurant &lpar;QSR&rpar; industry&comma; announced an expanded partnership with Galardi Group&comma; the parent company of Wienerschnitzel&comma; to deploy its cutting-edge Voice AI ordering technology across the quick-service restaurant chain&&num;8217&semi;s drive-thru locations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Galardi Group now has 35 locations operating with Presto’s Voice AI in the drive-thru&period; The company has already enrolled over 50 locations&comma; with rapid 2025 expansion plans for Wienerschnitzel&&num;8217&semi;s nationwide network of over 350 corporate and franchise drive-thru locations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We&&num;8217&semi;re thrilled to expand our partnership with the Galardi Group and bring Presto Voice to Wienerschnitzel locations across the country&comma;” said Gee Lefevre&comma; CEO of Presto&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our AI-driven solution has significantly improved upsell and labor optimization while helping the staff focus on providing exceptional service and food quality&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are delighted to be an early adopter of AI with Presto and have conviction in the ROI we see across upsell revenue&comma; labor cost&comma; and the consistency of the customer experience&comma;” said Rusty Bills&comma; Chief Operating Officer of Galardi Group&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is time to scale our partnership toward a fully AI-enabled system&comma; which we believe will greatly contribute to the success of our franchisees&period; The QSR space is rapidly moving in the technology space&comma; and we are happy to partner with Presto to help us navigate this current way of doing business&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Presto Voice is an industry-leading Voice AI product that automates drive-thru order-taking&comma; in the process becoming a virtual employee&comma; helping staff avoid excessive multi-tasking and driving higher order accuracy and superior customer service&period; A Presto Voice upsell test with Wienerschnitzel’s all-beef hotdog yielded a 5&percnt; average increase in total sales when Presto Voice consistently upsold the all-beef hotdog&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ours is a story of great American entrepreneurship and growth that started with a single hot dog stand in 1961&period; As we expand our business over the next decade&comma; we believe our early adoption of AI will help enable this same culture of being forward-thinking and results-oriented&comma;” said JR Galardi&comma; CEO of Galardi Group&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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