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title: "Why Customer Experience Starts Behind the Scenes"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/c38ef788-d630-477c-9a58-9d1004a1b080
source: "QSR Magazine"
original_url: https://www.qsrmagazine.com/sponsored_content/why-customer-experience-starts-behind-the-scenes/
author: "Davina Van Buren"
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
topics: ["Operations"]
published: 2026-09-30T16:46:54.000Z
modified: 2026-10-31T14:42:22.472Z
image: https://www.qsrmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/QSR-Views-Social.png
---

# Why Customer Experience Starts Behind the Scenes

**TL;DR:** Multi-unit restaurant brands require coordination to deliver a consistent customer experience across locations, which can be achieved through smart planning and technology. Manish Kapoor, CEO of Growth Catalyst Group, shares insights on how to reduce complexity and improve operations.

*By Davina Van Buren, originally published in QSR Magazine on 2026-09-30. [Read the original](https://www.qsrmagazine.com/sponsored_content/why-customer-experience-starts-behind-the-scenes/).*

## Story

Smart planning keeps inventory, marketing, and customer expectations aligned.

For multi-unit restaurant brands, delivering the same customer experience across every location requires a lot of coordination that guests never see. Products need to be available when customers want them, while marketing campaigns have to reach stores at the right time and match what each location can deliver.

In this VIEWS feature, Manish Kapoor, founder and CEO of Growth Catalyst Group (GCG), which includes Archway, explains how restaurant brands can reduce that complexity. He shares how better forecasting can help prevent stockouts, why inventory and marketing teams need to work together, and how technology can help restaurant brands keep operations running smoothly so they can focus on the guest experience.

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## Entities

- QSR Magazine (publication)
- customer experience (topic)
- Operations (sector)
- multi-unit expansion (topic)
- inventory management (topic)
- Davina Van Buren (person)
- marketing coordination (topic)
- Growth Catalyst Group (company)
- Manish Kapoor (person)
- Archway (company)

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Originally reported by Davina Van Buren, QSR Magazine (https://www.qsrmagazine.com/sponsored_content/why-customer-experience-starts-behind-the-scenes/). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/c38ef788-d630-477c-9a58-9d1004a1b080).