HIC will feature an innovation lab to collaborate with local start-ups
Atlanta-headquartered Inspire Brands expects to have a 500-member team in Hyderabad by 2025, who will partner with colleagues around the world to develop new capabilities across several areas including data science, analytics, e-commerce, automation, cloud and information security.
Stating this on 15 Sept 2023, Co-Founder and CEO Paul Brown said Inspire has already onboarded more than 100 team members over the last 6 months and aims to hire 100 more by the year end.
He announced plans at the opening of Inspire’s Hyderabad Innovation Center (HIC), the sixth in a network of global support centers that power Inspire’s 32,000 global restaurants.
Brown said, “This center is part of our strategy to invest in building industry-leading capabilities that will create a distinct advantage for our portfolio of brands and our franchisees.
“We have already made great strides in laying the foundation for this work and will continue to evolve these capabilities in the months to come, with the help of our Hyderabad team members.”
The HIC will also feature an innovation lab to collaborate with local start-ups on new solutions for productivity optimization, workforce management, loyalty, payments systems, and more.
Furthermore, the innovation fuelled by the HIC will help drive the growth of Inspire’s brands in India and surrounding markets, where Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Dunkin’ currently operate almost 1,000 restaurants.
Inspire teamed up for the Hyderabad HIC with US-headquartered ANSR, which helps companies build and manage high-impact global teams in talent-rich locations across the world.
Lalit Ahuja, ANSR Founder and CEO, said, “Inspire’s HIC will pioneer a fresh wave of innovation for an extremely unique and interesting segment of the restaurant business.
“At ANSR, we are thrilled to be building this deep tech center along with Inspire, using our best-in-class enabler services, which will attract the best talent in India to build cutting-edge solutions that elevate the guest experience for their brands.”
Inspire, founded in 2018, is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 32,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC locations worldwide. Fiinews.com
