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Randy Barnett

Board of Advisors at Incept AI

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Overview

Randy Barnett serves on the Board of Advisors at Incept AI [8]. Barnett is a technology executive with 30+ years leading digital transformation across restaurant and hospitality brands [2]. Barnett currently holds the position of Chief Technology Officer at The Melting Pot Restaurants [3], where Barnett has directed technology initiatives including data warehouse construction, analytics infrastructure development, enterprise-wide POS system rollouts, and AI-driven guest engagement efforts [2]. Prior to this role, Barnett served as Vice President of Innovative Technology, Systems and Data at The Melting Pot Restaurants from April 2017 to March 2025 [4]. Barnett's earlier career included positions as Director of Information Technology at My Fit Foods [9] and Zoes Kitchen [10]. Barnett also serves on advisory boards and boards for Alervio [5], Serve AI [6], and Kubbly [7].

Profile introduction
Source excerptLinkedIn [2]

Technology executive with 30+ years leading digital transformation across restaurant and hospitality brands. Currently CTO at The Melting Pot, where I run technology for a 90+ location franchise system. Built the company's data warehouse and analytics infrastructure from scratch. Led enterprise-wide POS rollouts. Directing our current push into AI-driven guest engagement. I turn guest data into business results using predictive analytics and RFM modeling, and built a taxonomy framework for classifying guest review sentiment across survey and third-party sources. I build IT teams that scale…

Career history

  1. Chief Technology OfficerMar 2025 to presentThe Melting Pot Restaurants
  2. Vice President of Innovative Technology, Systems and DataApr 2017 to Mar 2025The Melting Pot Restaurants
  3. Advisory Board MemberAug 2025 to presentAlervio®
  4. Advisory Board MemberMar 2025 to presentServe AI
  5. Board MemberMar 2025 to presentKubbly
  6. Board of AdvisorsAug 2024 to presentIncept AI
  7. Director of Information TechnologyJul 2014 to Mar 2017My Fit Foods
  8. Director of Information TechnologyJun 2010 to Jul 2014Zoes Kitchen

Education

  1. Jacksonville State University1983 - 1985
  2. Gadsden State1984 - 1986

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