Overwhelmed by venue tech? This breakfast is for you
Are you a venue operator or owner trying to run a tighter business and understand your customers better, but not sure what tech you actually need or how it all fits together?
The Full Stack Breakfast at Fine Food Australia is built for you.
You know the feeling. A POS that does one thing, a bookings system that does another, an ordering app you added when things got busy, and no clear sense of whether any of it is working together. Running a venue has never been more complicated, and most operators end up piecing their tech together as they go.
What you actually want is simpler: to know whether you're making money, to understand the customers walking through the door, and to spend less time wrestling with systems that don't talk to each other. The trouble is that no one ever sits you down and explains what a modern venue really needs, or how the pieces are meant to connect.
That's exactly what the Full Stack Breakfast sets out to fix.
Held on the opening morning of Fine Food Australia, this is a different kind of industry breakfast. It brings four of Australia's leading hospo tech platforms into one room: Loaded, SevenRooms, HungryHungry and Lightspeed. Together they walk through the modern venue stack one layer at a time, so you can finally see how a connected venue runs, and where the gaps might be in yours.
The problems it solves
Each layer answers a question you've probably asked yourself:
- Are you actually making money? Loaded gives you real-time cost of goods, food cost and margin, so you know whether you're profitable before the month closes, not after.
- Do you really know your customers? SevenRooms builds a guest profile behind every booking, so you know who's coming, what they spend and how to bring them back, on top of reservations, waitlists and table management.
- Is ordering slowing you down? HungryHungry puts QR ordering and payment at the table, with orders going straight to the kitchen and no double handling.
- Does any of it talk to each other? Lightspeed is the POS and operations layer everything connects to: floor management, ordering, inventory and reporting in one place.
Seeing them side by side is the point. Instead of four separate pitches, you get a clear view of how the pieces fit, and a practical sense of what your own venue needs next.
Hosted by Dani Valent
Guiding the morning is Dani Valent, one of Australia's most respected food journalists. Over two decades she's told the stories of Melbourne's restaurants, cafes and producers as restaurant critic for The Age, an award-winning cookbook author and host of the Dirty Linen podcast. She'll steer the conversation and keep it honest, sharp and grounded in how venues really run. It's not a product pitch, but a genuine look at how the tools work together.
You'll walk out knowing what to prioritise next, whether that's tightening your margins, getting closer to your customers or cutting friction on the floor. Every attendee is also invited to an exclusive deep-dive webinar after the show, so you can pick the thread back up once you're back behind the pass.
And it's a strong way to start your Fine Food Australia. Once breakfast wraps, the show floor opens: 900+ suppliers across four days, from ingredients and equipment to the ideas and trends shaping next year's menus, all under one roof at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre.
The details
- When: Monday 31 August, 8:00–10:00am
- Where: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
- Cost: $49 + GST per person, including breakfast and coffee on arrival, the full program hosted by Dani Valent, and open networking with all four platforms
- How to book: Fine Food Australia registration is completely free and takes a few minutes. Add your Full Stack Breakfast ticket during registration.
Fine Food Australia is exclusively for the trade, so everyone on the floor is there for the same reason you are: to source, connect and do business.
Register free and book your spot at finefoodaustralia.com.au/whats-on/hospo-full-stack-breakfast.
13th August 2026
