Sessions – the distribution engine for restaurant brands, turning loved food brands into national franchises – has today been announced in The Sunday Times 100 Tech, Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies.
The Times ranked Sessions at number 14 in the list due to its pace of growth within the technology sphere, with a compound annual growth rate of 177.04%.
Technology is at the heart of what Sessions does, utilising ‘Agatha’ – its AI-driven insights engine – to stay on top of the trends, as well using ’Serve’, an operating system that brings orders, menus, stock and staff into one platform.
Hospitality is going through a tumultuous period right now, and Sessions believes restaurants need to pivot their way of thinking in order to survive the changing landscape. Via the use of technology to help scale a business quickly, delivery platforms can support restaurants not just deliver to their immediate neighbourhood, but to make the brand available nationwide for people to order. Unlocking the true distribution power of the digital world for the industry.
The success of Sessions has most recently been demonstrated in the integration of brands such as SoBe Burger, Ivan Ramen and Little Bao Boy, as well as partnering with Netflix to create food brands for their hit shows including Squid Game, and, currently live, Stranger Things.
Warne comments: ‘Just as streaming transformed music and film, and e-commerce reshaped retail, the restaurant industry must embrace the scale enabled by the internet. Our distribution model begins to decouple the power of a restaurant brand from a single physical location. Doing so has the potential to fundamentally reset industry economics at a time of need. At Sessions, we’re proud to be recognised as a technology platform enabling that shift – helping independent food businesses transcend the physical site, while giving customers greater access to high-quality food, wherever they choose to enjoy it.’
Founder and CEO Dan Warne is no stranger to success, playing an instrumental role at Deliveroo where he was Managing Director, helping to lead the company from a 12-person start-up to the fastest growing company in Europe.
Being named at 14 within The Times 100 Tech highlights just how much of an impact technology is having in the hospitality industry, and how – if businesses want to succeed – they need to utitlise it to their advantage.
In addition to its latest accolade, Sessions was ranked 31st among the 100 fastest-growing startups in the UK and Ireland by revenue growth in the Sifted 100: UK & Ireland (Fastest-Growing UK Startups), as well as 77th in the Sifted 250: Europe’s Fastest-Growing Startups, ranking 10th among consumer brands within this list.
