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Skip to contentThe growing use of technology in the foodservice industry provides operators the opportunity to increase efficiency and service, while improving ordering speed, accuracy, and customer experience – when it works. Are operators adopting technology and leveraging its benefits? Is it performing to the highest standard? Are customers benefitting from increased tech adoption at their favourite restaurants? The Canopy Restaurant Tech 2026 Report reveals the answers to these questions, along with valuable data that operators can use to determine where it’s worth investing, how customers want to use technology, and where there are opportunities for improvement on the tech side of the business:Diners like using technology like kiosks (67 per cent use them), citing advantages like faster ordering, more time to browse, easier customization, less human interaction, and increased order accuracy, But people are frustrated when restaurant tech doesn’t work as expected, and only 20 per cent of kiosk users say kiosks always work, unchanged from 2025.

On Monday, Albertans vote on whether to stay in Canada or hold another binding referendum on quitting Canada. If the vote goes as polls suggest, a majority of Albertans will mark an X to stay in Confederation, and Premier Danielle Smith has said if that’s so, she expects everyone to accept it and move on. Leaders of the independence movement contest that. And political watchers are divided about whether separation — previously a fringe sentiment — will now be a prominent, permanent feature of Alberta’s political landscape, as in Quebec. Julian Castro-Rea, a political-science professor at the University of Alberta who studies the separation debates in Quebec and Alberta, believes as long as Alberta feels alienated from the Canadian capital — feeling that Ottawa benefits from Alberta’s resource economy without giving back — the movement will have fuel. “Even if the referendum is lost, the westernization will still be around, because it’s kind of a way which, traditionally, Albertans have related to the rest of Canada,” says Castro-Rea, who believes western alienation may remain indefinitely. Story continues below advertisement