Friends in Food is a one-day gathering of New York’s restaurant operators, hospitality executives, food writers, and tech founders. The panels follow a restaurant’s growth: opening a new location from lease to launch, scaling a restaurant group, and putting technology and data to work in modern hospitality.For operators and restaurant group leaders, it’s a day of candid conversation with peers about what it takes to open, grow, and run a restaurant group in today’s market. Slang AI CEO Alex Sambvani joins Amy Zhou of Gracious Hospitality and Ben Leventhal of Blackbird on the “Technology and Data in Hospitality” panel, moderated by Kristen Hawley of Expedite. The panel will look at how data and AI are changing guest experience and operations.