Hot Concepts 2012: StackedHot Concepts 2012: Stacked

Fern Glazer

The Hot Concepts awards are given each year by Nation’s Restaurant News to young, growing chains that embody the perseverance and entrepreneurial spirit of the restaurant industry. Here, we profile one of the four 2012 Hot Concepts award winners.

The dream of every restaurant owner is to give customers exactly what they want, but co-founders Paul Motenko and Jerry Hennessy believe Stacked: Food Well Built just might be giving it to them.

Since the first of its three units opened in May 2011 in Torrance, Calif., Stacked has been using tabletop iPads to serve up menu items completely customized to diners’ individual specifications. Each of the three “fast-casual-meets-casual-dining” restaurants has 60 to 70 iPads that diners use t...