FSTEC Event Insider 2026

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How technology drives efficiency at 7 Brew: Want to know how technology is impacting your employees? Just ask them. Danyel Bischof-For- syth, chief technology officer at 7 Brew Coffee, discusses how her team gauges the real impact of technology on the restaurant brand’s store-level teams. Using direct feedback from baristas and franchisees, leadership can more effectively identify operational pain points and test new solutions.

How AI is changing the build vs. buy question for restaurant tech leaders: Stephen Witt, author of “The Thinking Machine,” discusses how AI, and re - cent advances in robotics, are reshaping foodser- vice operations and decision-making in real time. Plus, how these tools are changing the build vs. buy equation

How Wonder uses kitchen robotics to boost speed and accuracy: Wonder CEO Tony Hoggett and SVP, robotics Michael Farid sit down with Restaurant Business’ Jonathan Maze to discuss how the com- pany is turning to technology to address back-of- house bottlenecks and get food in customers’ hands in record time.

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