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Pitch The Tide – Kim Modeste: Founder and CEO, S’more AI

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Interview Takeaways

  • Turns Contests Into a Real Growth Tool – S’more AI takes something restaurants already do and makes it work at scale. By automating tracking, keeping score in real time, and handling rewards instantly, contests stop being a short-term boost and start becoming a reliable way to drive sales.
  • Removes Friction From Motivation – No apps to download. No spreadsheets to manage. No managers chasing updates. By running everything through simple text messages and real-time data, S’more AI keeps teams focused on guests while motivation runs quietly in the background.
  • Proves ROI Instead of Promising It – Instead of hoping contests work, S’more AI shows operators what changed. With clear sales lift and ROI right in the dashboard, restaurants can see exactly what their team-driven incentives are delivering to the business.

In this Pitch The Tide session, Kim Modeste, founder and CEO of S’more AI, shares what she learned from years of watching how restaurants actually try to drive sales. She explains the simple truth about contests: they work, but only for as long as people stay excited about them. Kim walks through why most contests fizzle out once the spreadsheets come out, and how S’more AI keeps the energy going by making incentives easy, automatic, and part of the flow of service. The result is a system that helps operators motivate their teams, see real results on the P&L, and turn the people on the floor into one of their most powerful growth tools, without adding more work to anyone’s plate.

Listen to the replay of this first session and follow Cali BBQ Media to join future rooms, pitch your company, and learn from the community.

Every Friday at 10am PT / 1pm ET, Shawn P. Walchef hosts Pitch the Tide live.

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About Cali BBQ Media

Digital Hospitality is an interview-based video podcast hosted by business owner Shawn P. Walchef (@shawnpwalchef) and produced by his Cali BBQ Media company. The weekly digital series explores the ways successful businesses and entrepreneurs have merged old and new with innovative digital strategies that harness the power of the Internet and social media. Shawn is the founder of Cali BBQ Media and creator of the Restaurant Influencers podcast on Entrepreneur Media.

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