Kana for Marketers
Quick Service Restaurants (QSR)

Localize Every Offer at the Speed of Real Life

Kana gives QSR marketers budget that keeps pace with what's converting, offers that respect real kitchen conditions, and targeting that shifts with demand, at scale, store by store.

How Agentic Marketing Works for QSR Teams

Spend follows the market, not the average

Budget shifts to whatever's converting, reviewed by your team first. High-variance markets stop being stuck on the national mean.

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Offers that check the 86 board first

Kana keeps campaign tools synced to store operations, so your team catches a bad offer before the guest finds out at the counter.

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Segments ready before the moment passes

Audiences build in minutes, not weeks, with suppression built in, so campaigns launch while the demand is still there.

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Kana Works on Top of
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Connects to your warehouse, loyalty platform, ordering system, and ad platforms, with no rip-and-replace and no new governance gaps.

Reallocate budget without hiring a planner per channel

Campaign Orchestrator moves budget to whatever's converting, reviewed by your team first. Channels that used to run on autopilot finally get a real plan.

Keep campaigns honest about the kitchen

Agentic Data Platform keeps campaign tools synced to store operations, so offers get caught before they go out, not flagged by a guest complaint.

Build the segment, not just the demographic

Audience Builder builds sized, suppressed segments from your CRM and loyalty data in minutes, fast enough for campaigns to finally act on it.

Build Agentic Applications That Support Your Entire Restaurant Team

Spend that follows the market,
not the national average

Campaign Orchestrator shifts budget to whatever channel is converting right now, with your team approving every move.
The weekly comp readout stops being a record of decisions made three weeks too late.

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Offers that check the kitchen before they send

The Agentic Data Platform keeps campaign tools synced to store operations, so an 86'd item's offer gets caught before it sends, not flagged by a guest complaint. Marketing stops promising what operations can't serve.

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Audiences ready the moment
demand shifts

Audience Builder builds sized, suppressed segments straight from your CRM and loyalty data in minutes, not the two-week ticket to the data team. The offer goes out while the moment's still there.

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Offer logic built per member,
not per program

Personalization builds individualized offer logic per member, so each offer adds a visit that wasn't already coming, not the same buy-10-get-1 for everyone regardless of how often they visit.

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How Our Agentic Solutions Augment Your Team

Tailored capabilities designed to address role-specific challenges and achieve your business goals.

Challenges
  • The weekly comp-sales readout shows variance the national calendar ignores, and franchisees can see it too.
  • Co-op and DMA budgets are locked quarterly, with no way to shift spend when a market's traffic diverges.
  • Franchisees contribute 2–7% of gross sales to pooled marketing funds and demand proof it moves their stores, not the system average.
Campaign Orchestrator

Campaign Orchestrator reallocates budget to whatever's converting, with your team approving every move. The franchisee conversation starts from real numbers, not the system average.

Solution
For Category Managers:

Spend less time compiling reports and more time acting on category insights.

Spot category shifts earlier by connecting POS data with external market signals.

Walk into buyer meetings with sourced answers and a clearer view of what changed.

Challenges
  • Push notifications fire on time-of-day rules, whether or not the kitchen can absorb the offer.
  • Offers drop for items that were 86'd an hour ago, and the guest finds out at the counter.
  • One offer campaign means configuring two disconnected systems, loyalty and messaging, neither of which reads store operations.
Agentic Data Platform

Agentic Data Platform syncs campaign tools to store operations, so your team catches and adjusts an offer before it sends. The calendar stops overpromising.

Solution
For VP Media & Performance:

Spend less time reconciling channel data and more time improving media efficiency.

See which audiences, campaigns, and channels are actually driving performance.

Turn real-time media signals into faster budget shifts and smarter optimization decisions.

Challenges
  • Day-part campaigns run on schedules locked 30+ days out, while weather, events, and competitors shift demand daily.
  • DMA-level plans deploy once and optimize weekly at best, but most QSR purchases resolve in under 30 minutes.
  • Weather-triggered campaigns show double-digit traffic lifts, but the current stack can't run them at hundreds of locations.
Audience Builder

Audience Builder builds sized, suppressed segments from CRM and loyalty data in minutes, not weeks, so campaigns launch market by market while demand lasts.

Solution
For Director of Marketing Ops:

Spend less time managing disconnected tools and more time improving how marketing runs.

Spot workflow gaps, data issues, and bottlenecks before they slow the team down.

Turn operational signals into faster fixes, smoother processes, and more reliable execution.

Challenges
  • Every loyalty member gets the same buy-10-get-1, regardless of how often they visit or what they buy.
  • Blanket offers subsidize visits that were already coming, cannibalizing full-price behavior instead of adding traffic.
  • Loyalty members visit 76% more often than non-members, but the program treats its heaviest and lightest users identically.
Personalization

Personalization builds individualized offer logic per member, calibrated to maximize incremental visits without cannibalizing full-price purchases. Current deployments get it the moment it ships.

Solution
For VP Analytics / CMO:

Spend less time reconciling reports and more time focusing on what’s driving growth.

Get a clearer view of performance across channels, audiences, and customer segments.

Turn complex data into faster strategic decisions on where to invest and what to change.

Challenges
  • Discounting is at a 50-year high, and traffic keeps declining anyway.
  • 83% of major QSR brands have worse retention than when the value wars started; discounts bought visits, not loyalty.
  • The quarterly ad-fund review with the franchisee council runs on manually stitched POS and media reports.
Campaign Orchestrator

Campaign Orchestrator follows performance signal, tracing every reallocation to the decision behind it. The franchisee council sees the reasoning, not just the system average.

Solution
For VP Data & Audience Strategy:

Spend less time unifying fragmented audience data and more time shaping smarter audience strategy.

Identify the segments, signals, and behaviors that matter most for growth.

Turn audience insights into faster decisions on targeting, activation, and investment.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions and answers about agentic AI, agentic marketing, Kana's agentic AI marketing platform, integrations, and enterprise workflows.

How does Kana connect to our restaurant stack?

Via API. Kana connects to your warehouse, marketing, loyalty, and ordering systems, with no rip-and-replace and no data migration. Kana's team scopes the connection list with you and sets timing per engagement.

How does the Agentic Data Platform know what's happening in the kitchen?

It reads the same operational signals your stores already produce (inventory, 86'd-item status, order volume, kitchen capacity), so offers reflect current conditions, not a stale calendar. Your team still reviews every rule first.