Spencer Michiel

Spencer brings over 20 years of restaurant industry experience, having worked nearly every position from busser to operations manager. He got his start bussing tables at his father’s restaurant, soon after, he was cooking in kitchens across independent restaurants. He deepened his culinary knowledge at Earl’s, a well-known Canadian chain, where he mastered the brigade kitchen system—baking by day and operating the wood-fired pizza oven by night.

Spencer later transitioned to the front of house at The Keg, a Canadian steakhouse chain, where he moved into management and re-learned every position from dishwasher to bartender. He also spent time bartending at two high-volume pubs before stepping into the restaurant tech world with Vivonet, where he helped launch Halo POS, the first fully cloud-based POS on the market. Most recently, he served as Partnerships Manager at Ready, introducing U.S. operators to QR code ordering and mobile payments. At Back of House, Spencer combines his hands-on restaurant experience with deep tech knowledge to help operators find the right tools to streamline operations and boost performance.