Company Category: Marketing Research

Datassential

Datassential is the leading global food and beverage intelligence platform providing guidance on trends, competitive benchmarking, and sales intelligence. Through a suite of AI-powered solutions, an intuitive UI, and proprietary data, the food and beverage ecosystem relies on Datassential to more effectively develop, market, and sell their products. Founded in 2001, Datassential powers insights and sales intelligence for brands including Burger King, DoorDash, General Mills, Land O’ Lakes, Pepsi, Starbucks, Target, and more.

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CreatoRain

CreatoRain is an AI-powered video marketing platform built specifically for multi-location restaurant brands. We help restaurant chains drive foot traffic, online orders, and brand awareness by producing high-performing short-form promotional videos at scale using vetted local content creators across U.S. cities.Unlike traditional agencies or in-house teams, CreatoRain combines AI-driven creative strategy, localized creator matching, and performance optimization to deliver consistent, conversion-focused social media content for TikTok, Instagram, and other digital channels. Our platform enables restaurant operators to launch city-by-city campaigns quickly while maintaining brand consistency across locations.CreatoRain currently serves 100+ restaurant brands and produces 300+ videos per month, helping operators reduce customer acquisition costs and improve social engagement without increasing internal marketing headcount. Our solutions are designed for growing and enterprise restaurant chains seeking measurable ROI from digital marketing.At the National Restaurant Association Show, we are showcasing how restaurant operators can use CreatoRain to scale local marketing, support new store openings, and drive repeat visits through authentic, creator-led video content.

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Chain Store Guide

Chain Store Guide (CSG) has been the leading provider of comprehensive retail and foodservice intelligence to businesses around the world. CSG details all major chains as-well-as high-performance single unit stores in the United States and Canada with contact information, including email addresses, social media handles and direct dial numbers, for hundreds of thousands of key decision makers. Our data is reviewed and confirmed by our experienced team of industry experts. While some companies simply scrape data from the internet without verification, our researchers validate every company profiled. These updates are confirmed and authenticated regularly to ensure that the data is accurate and current. CSG provides data in an online portal, customized databases, and prints directories. Our clients consist of manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, brokers, real estate professionals, restaurants, analysts, consultants and other professionals seeking to gain insight into retail and foodservice markets in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, CSG tracks over 700,000 geocoded retail and foodservice locations, providing updates for openings and closings, historical snapshots spanning over 10 years, and mappings of the locations closed both temporary & permanent due to the pandemic.

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ACE Mystery Shopping

ACE Mystery Shopping

Fast growing brands have one problem in common, consistency across multiple locations, a problem we solve. Our secret shoppers give you the inside scoop on what’s going on in your existing locations, so you can continue to grow your brand with confidence. You trust your team. But if you don’t “Trust but Verify” as Ronald Reagan once said, it’s going to cost you… Quick growth can lead to inconsistency without the right tool to maintain it Some locations over-serving or under-serving, which creates big problems for your brand, such as….. ✅Missed sales opportunities ✅Poor brand recognition across multiple units ✅Negative online reviews ✅You won’t be able to grow as quickly ✅Your competitors may outperform you ✅Your guest retention rate may suffer You don’t have to do it alone. Knowledge is power. Sign up with ACE Mystery Shopping and you’ll learn what you need to do, and what you need to stop doing right now, in order to scale your brand. We’ve been serving the restaurant industry since 2001, and we like to think of ourselves an extension of your team.

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