Press Room

As the premier company providing QSR's with “hot and fresh” solutions, HyperActive Technologies receives a frequent amount of media coverage. Here are some recent stories about our company.

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New 3M and HyperActive Technologies Alliance Offers QSR Industry The Drive-Thru Solution -- October 19, 2009
HyperActive Technologies today announced they have formed an alliance to bring a new paradigm of drive-thru technology to Quick Service Restaurants (QSR).

HyperActive Technologies Breaks Venture Investment Draught
PITTSBURGH — HyperActive Technologies, Inc., a NYPPEX-listed private company that designs, manufactures and markets productivity and performance improving software for quick service restaurants, capped off its year in 2008 by closing approximately $5.7 million in a private capital offering in November.

Boddie-Noell uses QTimer to Streamline Drive-Thru Efficiency
When CKE directed franchisee Boddie-Noell to use a timing system based on the physical presence of a vehicle, management turned to Hyperactive Technologies, the makers of a real-time drive-thru timer called QTimer… QTimer features a visual representation of cars in the drive-thru lane, and a drive-thru service metric that displays the customer's drive-thru time. This alone has resulted in some significant savings in drive-thru times ... It is an attention getting-display that really motivates staff. In the past, the only way that staff would have known these times was to look at the POS printouts at the end of the day….Boddie-Noell is also implementing the use of an online portal from Hyperactive that allows management to analyze drive-thru performances. Regional managers can look at all of their restaurants to compare store performances. They can identify their best performing stores at breakfast and then compare those times against problem stores to determine a plan of action. ... Boddie-Noell's management is looking at ways to utilize that information to address standards and minimize drive-thru time.
December 10, 2008

HyperActive moves beyond one-product strategy
HyperActive Technologies Inc. had a product it believed in … HyperActive developed and sold HyperActive Bob, a robotic kitchen management system that uses roof-mounted cameras to count cars entering fast-food restaurants’ parking lots, then displays the information on touch screens to help employees manage food preparation … In June 2007, HyperActive acquired two products [that] measured drive-through speed of service and gave visual order confirmations to customers. The newly acquired products were launched in the beginning of 2008, and HyperActive saw a surge in top-line growth, courting new customers and selling the additional technologies to current ones.  
Pittsburgh Business Times – December 5, 2008

Drive-throughs done right ring up returns
"People decide whether to come to your restaurant based on how long the drive-through line is," said R. Craig Coulter, chief scientist at HyperActive Technologies, a Pittsburgh-based restaurant software firm. Often, he said, "If there are seven cars in your line, they will go to your competitor." More speed can translate into more sales. There's an industry maxim that for every seven-second reduction in drive-through service time, sales will increase 1 percent over time, said Matt Jennings, president of data management at Minnesota-based Restaurant Technologies.
Chicago Tribune – November 28, 2008

Hyperactive Technologies - One of the coolest investments according to Forbes
Hyperactive Technologies is helping the fast-food industry speed up. HyperActive Bob is a computer program combining camera footage and predictive technology to tell cooks how many burgers and fries need to be ready when. The program is already in use throughout the Southeastern U.S. via chicken chain Zaxby's.
forbes.com -- June 11, 2007

Hyperactive Technologies puts fresh into faster food
popcitymedia.com -- April 11, 2007
Hyperactive Technologies Inc. began on a bad day at a drive-through window. Kerien Fitzpatrick, a Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute graduate, sat in his car waiting, and waiting, for his “fast” food. By the time it arrived, it was cold and Fitzpatrick had a better idea.

For fast-food help, call in the robots
CNBC.net -- March 26, 2007
Some robots are destined to rove the surface of Mars. Others, like Hyperactive Bob, will work in fast-food restaurants. Pittsburgh's Hyperactive Technologies has come up with a system, based on the computer vision and artificial intelligence systems employed by robots, to manage the kitchens at so-called quick-service restaurants.

Fast-food assistant 'Hyperactive Bob' example of robots' growing role
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- June 16, 2006
Kerien Fitzpatrick may be a die-hard roboticist, but he isn't too steeped in the technology to let a good business opportunity pass him by. The former Carnegie Mellon University researcher co-founded North Side-based HyperActive Technologies in 2001 to put the "fast" back into fast food. "HyperActive Bob" -- which looks more like a control center than a stereotypical robot -- is designed to help chains "deliver food as fast as they want to," said Mr. Fitzpatrick, who'll join about 700 fellow robot enthusiasts at the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition that kicks off Tuesday at the Sheraton Station Square.

Bits & Bytes: HyperActive Technologies raises $6.5 million
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- May 27, 2006
HyperActive Technologies said yesterday it has raised $6.5 million from private investors convened by Spencer Trask Ventures, a New York-based private equity firm. Joe Porfeli, chief executive officer of the North Side-based company, said the investment would pay for sales, marketing and business development activities to expand HyperActive's customer base. Hyperactive develops computers used to make fast-food restaurants more efficient.

Bits & Bytes
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- May 20, 2006
North Side-based HyperActive Technologies has entered into a license agreement with Zaxby's Restaurants to install HyperActive Bob, its kitchen production management computer system, into corporate-owned Zaxby's restaurants through the second quarter of this year. Zaxby's is a fast-food restaurant chain with locations in Southern states.

Kitchen manager ‘Bob’ still impressing users in test (registration required)
Nation’s Restaurant News -- April 10, 2006
Today, the largest deployment of HyperActive Bob by HyperActive Technologies is ongoing at Zaxby’s Franchising Inc. of Athens, operator and franchisor of about 330 counter-service Zaxby’s chicken specialty restaurants in nine southeastern states. Zaxby’s has been testing Bob since November 2005, and now uses the technology at nine restaurants in the metropolitan Atlanta area, with five additional sites slated to go live soon with the technology, said Tripp Sessions, Zaxby’s information technology director. “I think it’s going to be a home run,” Sessions said, basing his forecast on initial test results and management and franchisee reaction...

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