Find multi-unit restaurant buyers not single locations.
1.1M+ verified contacts at restaurant groups and food service operators - VPs of Operations, Directors of Purchasing, and multi-unit owners who decide for every location at once. Ken finds them, qualifies them against your ICP, writes the outreach, runs email and LinkedIn multichannel, and lands it in the inbox. Get early access or book a call to run it on your real leads.
Example searches
- VP of Operations or Director of Purchasing at restaurant groups with 10+ locations
- Multi-unit franchisees or regional operators with 20-200 employees running legacy POS systems
- Directors of Supply Chain at food service management companies serving corporate or campus dining
- Restaurant groups with 10+ locations Ken's AI scores as under-invested in digital ordering
Trusted by 1,000+ B2B companies
- SaaSRise
1.1M+ restaurant contacts. One HQ decision beats a thousand single-store pitches.
Restaurant sales teams waste most of their list on single-location owner-operators who can't sign anything beyond their own four walls. The real buyer sits at the group HQ - Operations, Purchasing, or a multi-unit franchisee who decides for every location at once - and generic restaurant lists don't separate the two. Ken qualifies every restaurant group and operator in its 1.1M+ restaurant and food service contact base against your ICP with AI - unit count, footprint, technology stack - then personalizes every email around the group's actual footprint.
- restaurant & food service contacts
- 1.1M+
- HQ operators and multi-unit decision-makers across 10+ source platforms
- inbox placement after moving to Ken infrastructure
- 32% → 89%
- proprietary SMTP, warm IPs, and a Gmail spam-filter replica on every send
- verification rounds per email
- 3x
- 65% of risky or invalid addresses filtered before you send
- free credits to start
- 1,000
- no card; about 690 finished leads
Signals Ken can actually see.
Restaurant HQ buyers move on real engagement and real fit, not a hunch. Ken watches new leaders, hiring and news at each group, tracks what a prospect does, and qualifies who they are before they enter your sequence.
Multi-click intent on location pages and franchise kits
An Operations or Purchasing lead who clicks your demo or pricing link more than once is showing real intent. Ken flags it and can fire the next touch automatically or route the contact straight to you.
Re-engage quiet restaurant operators
An HQ contact who engaged and then went quiet gets picked back up automatically. Ken watches for clicks that stop and re-approaches with a different angle before the deal goes cold.
Sort restaurant & food service replies the moment they land
Every reply from a VP of Operations, franchisee, or purchasing director is classified the moment it lands - interested, not interested, or out of office - and routed or handled automatically, so real conversations reach you fast.
Qualified to your unit count
Score every restaurant group against criteria a dropdown cannot express - “10+ locations still running a legacy POS” or “franchise operator with in-house purchasing.” Ken reads each group's footprint so single-location owner-operators never enter the sequence.
Built to reach HQ, not the counter.
Filter by unit count, not just “restaurants.”
“Restaurant groups with 10+ locations” or “multi-unit franchisees with in-house purchasing” isn't a filter a generic list gives you. Ken's AI reads each company's footprint and scores it against your actual ICP - our clients report under 10% unqualified leads.
Emails that speak to group-wide rollout, not a single store.
Restaurant HQ buyers ignore anything that reads like a single-location pitch. Ken writes from the group's actual footprint, unit count, and role - inside human-written frameworks. In our 500k-email study, Ken personalization lifted engagement 127% while generic AI copy dropped it 25%.
Independent, franchise, and enterprise groups need different pitches.
A 3-unit independent and a 200-unit franchise operator buy differently. Segment your list by unit count and operator type, run parallel campaigns, and see which pitch converts by segment - not just in aggregate.
From ICP to booked meetings.
Three steps. Nothing sends until you approve.
Describe your buyer
Paste your website and Ken drafts your ICP and offer - or describe it yourself: unit count, region, operator type. Edit and confirm in under a minute.
Review your campaign
Ken sources restaurant and food service leads, qualifies each against your criteria, segments them by unit count, and drafts personalized multichannel sequences in your voice. Nothing sends until you approve it in your queue.
Send and take the meetings
Approve and launch from your own inboxes, or from Ken inboxes on Ken AI. Replies get sentiment-tagged, positives reach you instantly, and meetings land on your calendar.
Frequently Asked Questions
What teams ask before running outbound for Restaurants & Food Service with Ken.
Ken Search covers 1.1M+ contacts at restaurant groups and food service operators inside Ken's database of 250M people and 24M companies. Slice them by unit count, seniority, function, region, and AI-qualified fit to find the HQ buyers who decide for more than one location.
Filter by unit count from the start. Ken's AI qualification can target criteria like “restaurant groups with 10+ locations” or “multi-unit franchisees,” so your list is built around HQ operations, purchasing, and franchise decision-makers instead of independent single-store owners who can't buy in volume.
A restaurant list mixes single locations in with real multi-unit buyers and goes stale the moment a group opens or closes a unit. Ken runs sourcing, triple email verification, AI qualification against your unit-count and operator criteria, segmentation, personalized copywriting, sending on managed infrastructure, and reply handling. You approve the campaign; Ken does the grunt work.
It works when it's aimed at the right level and lands in the inbox. Moving clients onto Ken's proprietary sending infrastructure took inbox placement from 32% to 89%, and AI personalization lifted engagement 127% in our 500k-email study - 7x more meetings per 10k contacts than the industry average.
Start free with 1,000 credits. No card. Ken AI is $200/mo ($160/mo billed annually) with 200,000 sends and 5,000 credits a month. 5,000 credits cover about 1,000 finished leads, 10 Ken inboxes, and one LinkedIn account a month. Domains for Ken inboxes come on top, about $13 each the first year, then $16 a year, unless you bring your own. Or have our team run it for you and pay per held meeting.
Your buyers are 1.1M contacts deep.
Build a campaign on your exact restaurant and food service ICP. Get early access or book a call. Campaigns are sourced, verified, qualified, and written. Send when you like what you see.
