The Fast Casual Executive Summit runs October 4 to 6, 2026 at the Loews Arlington Hotel in Arlington, Texas. Connect Media has produced it for 20 years, and it stays deliberately small: roughly 400 senior restaurant leaders across two and a half days. Interactive sessions replace a trade show floor, so operators and the people serving them sit together. Programming includes the Perfect Pitch competition and the Fast Casual Hall of Fame inductions.
Opus is built for the frontline first, which means your standards live where the work happens: set in training, reinforced through checklists, communication, and instant answers, then verified by audits and guest feedback. That's the training operations platform behind Smashburger, Shipley Do-Nuts, and Bahama Buck's. We're presenting a live case study on the main stage with one of our restaurant operator partners, walking through what they changed and what it returned. Pull up a chair, or grab us between sessions. Either way, we'll be around and would love to see you.
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