Sofia leads Vibe Check, our twice-monthly hospitality-vendor review column. Before TableTransfers she ran restaurant tech for a 40-unit casual group and broke the news that her POS vendor was about to be acquired — three weeks before the press release.

Every Vibe Check is a panel review: Sofia picks the panel of four to six operators, runs the vendor through real production workflows, and writes the verdict. The decision lists at the end ("Reach for X if…" / "Hold off if…") are pure Sofia.

She holds a master's in operations research and is constitutionally incapable of accepting a vendor demo at face value.