# Ben Leventhal

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Ben Leventhal on Bridging Old School Hospitality with New School Technology

#93.In this episode, we explore how hospitality is evolving at the intersection of tradition and technology—through the lens of one of the industry’s most influential entrepreneurs.  Ben Leventhal, Co-Founder of Eater and Resy and now Founder of Blackbird Labs, shares his journey from media to t ...

Ben Leventhal | Ex-Resy Co-Founder Explains Why He's Building Blackbird on Web3

On today’s (100th!) Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Ben Leventhal, Co-founder of Resy, Eater and Blackbird. They discuss his decades-long career focused on the food industry, Blackbird’s recent $50M raise as well as expansion in NYC, SF, Charleston and beyond. We also dive intoBe ...

Ben Leventhal (Founder & CEO, Blackbird)

In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Ben Leventhal, the founder and CEO of Blackbird. Ben has spent the past two decades reimagining the restaurant industry, having previously co-founded Eater and Resy.  The throughline that connects his efforts is a strong belief that restaurants are ...

Talking The Future of Restaurants at SKS 2025

Rising labor, food and real estate costs. New technologies. Fast-changing consumer tastes. Restaurant owners face more challenges than ever. This panel of super-smart restaurant folks was recorded at Smart Kitchen Summit 2025 on July 28th 2025. Speakers: Ben Leventhal (Blackbird), Elizabe ...

Eater/Resy Founder Ben Leventhal on Blackbird and the Future of Dining. Plus: Good News for Food Media, The Infatuation’s Best New Restaurants, Michelin Demotions, and Recent Eats at Betsy & More.

This week on The LA Food Podcast, Luca sits down with Ben Leventhal — the founder of Eater and Resy — to talk about his most ambitious project yet: Blackbird, a next-gen restaurant loyalty and payments app that might reshape how we dine out and how restaurants survive. Recorded at Rustic Canyon ...

From Eater to Blackbird: Ben Leventhal on Restaurants, Loyalty, and Rebuilding Payments

Restaurants generated more than a trillion dollars in sales last year — but they don’t control the payment rails those dollars flow through. In this episode, Ben Leventhal (founder of Eater, Resy, and now Blackbird) joins Robert Hackett to explain why that’s a problem, how loyalty and payments h ...

Ben Leventhal, Founder & CEO, Blackbird

Ben Leventhal’s impact on the restaurant business can not be overstated. The serial founder  successfully launched (and exited) restaurant editorial network Eater and reservations service  Resy. Now he’s back with Blackbird, a loyalty and payments platform for the restaurant industry. In this ep ...

Ben Leventhal: Your Guests Didn't Leave, They Forgot

What if your guests aren’t choosing your competitors, they just forgot you exist? Ben Leventhal has spent 20 years building the infrastructure that connects diners to restaurants. He co-founded Eater in 2005, co-founded Resy in 2014, sold it to American Express in 2019, and is now the CEO and fo ...

"They're Selling Things Other Than Food on a Plate" — Why One Founder Believes Restaurants Are Changing Forever

Ben Leventhal, founder and CEO of Blackbird, believes restaurants are entering a new golden age. After helping reshape hospitality with Eater and Resy, he's now focused on helping restaurants build stronger guest relationships and long-term loyalty. Watch now to learn why Ben Leventhal believes ...

Web3 and NFTs Didn't Die in Restaurants. It Went Underground

This episode revisits the 2021–2022 wave of restaurant Web3 experiments—Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Burger King, Applebee’s, Chipotle, Bored & Hungry, and Starbucks Odyssey—and explains why none are still running by 2026. Paul Molinari argues the failures stemmed from being marketing campaigns instea ...