Some of the best restaurant technology is not built in a lab. It is built by restaurant operators themselves.
Before founding Zignyl, Matt Forbush was a multi-unit franchise operator of Auntie Anne's Pretzels. Managing performance across locations, motivating frontline teams, tracking incentives, and understanding what was actually driving results at each store was difficult and time-consuming using manual tools.
So he built a better system. That system became Zignyl, now part of Miso's platform as Zippy.
That operator-built product is now part of Miso's AI and robotics platform, extending the kitchen of the future beyond the fryer and into the daily decision-making of restaurant leaders. For franchise operators managing dozens or hundreds of locations, tools that drive performance, accountability, and team engagement are not optional. They are essential.
When the investors behind that technology placed the Miso logo on their racing team, it was a fitting symbol of where restaurant modernization is headed. Miso is accelerating the kitchen of the future. Flippy started this wave by modernizing the fry station. Zippy extends that impact across the entire kitchen, giving operators real-time insights into performance, forecasting, incentives, and operations from a single AI-powered dashboard.
Think of the Miso platform as the control panel for the modern restaurant. Flippy handles the fry station. Zippy connects the rest. Together, they represent the kind of integrated AI infrastructure the restaurant and hospitality industries have been building toward.
The race to modernize restaurants is heating up. The companies with the most complete platforms and the most real-world deployments are the ones building a durable lead.