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Tech Chefs is an authorized HME dealer — we design your drive-thru system, sell you the equipment, and install every piece of it: headsets, timers, speaker posts, digital menu boards, canopies, and bollards. One vendor, the entire setup, DFW same-day service with rollout crews nationwide.
📞 972-901-9948 Book a Job OnlineHME headset systems installed, repaired, and refreshed — plus batteries and accessories in stock in our online parts store.
Timer systems that show you exactly where the line slows down — installed and integrated with your operation.
Vehicle detection loops cut, laid, and sealed in-house — no waiting on a concrete sub to get your detection back online.
Speaker/mic replacement, order-point rebuilds, and full lane refreshes after accidents or remodels.
Displays, mounts, power, and connectivity for outdoor menu systems — from single swaps to brand-wide upgrades.
Drive-thru canopies, bollards, and order-point structures — we build the physical lane, not just the electronics in it.
Adding a second lane or reworking the stack? We handle drive-thru electrical, structures, and technology end-to-end with your GC.
As an HME dealer we spec the right system for your volume, sell it at dealer pricing, and stand behind the install — no finger-pointing between vendor and installer.
We service drive-thrus for Sonic, McDonald's, Burger King, Jack in the Box, and Chick-fil-A operators — and through our HME dealer partnership, brands like Starbucks across the country. If your lane runs on HME, we're the crew your rep calls.
A dead lane costs money by the minute. Call before noon and we're usually on site the same day.
Timer and headset refreshes across 10, 50, or 200 stores — one point of contact, consistent install standard.
Headset batteries and common replacement parts ship straight from our online store — no dealer phone tag.
HME builds several platforms, and they are not interchangeable. Picking the wrong one means paying twice — once for equipment that won't scale, and again when your brand mandates an upgrade. Here's the honest breakdown from an authorized dealer who installs all of them.
HME's current flagship digital platform. HD wideband audio, a base station that supports single or dual lane, and configurations built around crew size — CORE, PRO, and brand-specific builds. This is what most national brands are standardizing on. If you're buying new in 2026, start here.
The proven previous-generation system. Dual-band (narrowband and wideband) so it plays nicely with older infrastructure. Still fully supported, still a solid buy for a single-lane store that doesn't need the NEXEO feature set — and often the smarter money on a remodel budget.
Older HME generation, widely deployed and still running in thousands of lanes. We keep parts moving for these and can tell you straight whether yours is worth repairing or whether you're throwing good money after bad.
Timer and drive-thru optimization system. It measures every segment of your lane so you can see exactly where seconds disappear. Pairs with the CU50 leaderboard so crews can see their own numbers in real time. This is the single highest-ROI add-on for most operators.
Audio at the order point — speakers, microphones, and post hardware. Bad audio is the number one driver of order errors, and it's usually the cheapest thing on the lane to fix.
Moving from ion|IQ or EOS to NEXEO? There are defined upgrade paths, and pricing depends on what you already own. Send us your current model numbers and we'll quote the actual delta, not a retail sticker.
Most operators end up juggling an equipment rep, an electrician, a low-voltage sub, and a concrete guy for the loops. We are all four. That's the whole reason Tech Chefs exists.
We look at your lane volume, headcount, lane configuration, and brand requirements — then spec the system that fits. If a cheaper system does the job, we say so.
Dealer pricing on the equipment, real numbers on the labor. Equipment and install on one quote, so nobody gets to point fingers later.
Licensed electricians (TECL 37276) and low-voltage techs on the same crew. Loops sawcut and sealed in-house. Most single-lane installs are done in a day.
We train your crew on the equipment before we leave, and we answer the phone afterward. Equipment maintenance agreements available if you want the coverage.
You don't need a service call to replace a battery. We stock the common wear items and ship them anywhere in the country — no dealer phone tag, no waiting on a rep to call you back.
The most common failure on any drive-thru system, and the easiest fix. BAT50 and BAT70 in stock. Not sure which? Read the comparison.
AC50 and the 4-port AC70 — because a dead charger takes the whole shift's batteries down with it.
SP10 outdoor speaker, DM5 and DM4 microphones, and the SPE-1 enclosure.
VDB103 detector boards and saw-cut loop kits when your lane stops seeing cars.
SPP2 posts and mounting hardware for when someone finally clips the order point.
It depends on the platform and how many headsets you need — a basic single-lane setup is a very different number than a dual-lane NEXEO system with six headsets and a timer. Rather than quote you a fake range, send us your lane configuration and crew size and we'll price the actual system. As an authorized HME dealer we quote at dealer pricing, and equipment and installation come on one number.
Yes. We run rollout crews nationwide for multi-site programs — timer and headset refreshes across 10, 50, or 200 stores with one point of contact and a consistent install standard. Same-day emergency service is a DFW offering; scheduled installs and rollouts we do coast to coast. Parts ship anywhere in the US.
Usually neither — it's most often the battery, and second most often interference or a failing antenna connection. Before you buy new equipment, work through these six fixes. If it's still dropping after that, call us and we'll diagnose it properly.
Not automatically. If your brand has mandated NEXEO, then yes. Otherwise it's a business decision — EOS|HD is still supported and still a good system. Where upgrading genuinely pays off is if you're adding a lane, growing crew size, or your current base station is failing often enough that repair costs are stacking up. We'll tell you which situation you're in.
A ZOOM Nitro timer breaks your lane into measured segments — greet, order, pull-forward, window, depart — so you can see precisely where time is being lost instead of guessing. Paired with a CU50 leaderboard the crew sees their own numbers live, which is where most of the improvement actually comes from. For most operators it's the highest-return piece of equipment on the lane.
Yes — sawcut, laid, and sealed in-house. That matters because most drive-thru companies sub out the concrete work, which means you wait on someone else's schedule to get detection back. We do it on our own crew, same visit.
Both — and that's unusual. We're an authorized HME dealer, so we sell you the equipment directly at dealer pricing, and we're the licensed contractor that installs it. One vendor means nobody gets to blame the other guy when something goes wrong. Here's why that matters.
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