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Buying the Box Is the Easy Part: What to Look For at FS/TEC 2026

By Bobby Majus - Senior Account Executive, QSR & Hospitality, IW Technologies

Every booth at FS/TEC will show you a new box. A slick POS, a new kiosk, a menu board that lights up. The box is the easy part. The real question in QSR and hospitality: who procures it, installs it before opening day, keeps it running through the rush for years, and pays you back for the old gear when you refresh?

That's us. IW Technologies. 50 years. We buy it, install it, keep it running, and take it back at the end.

Here's what matters on the floor.

We're agnostic. Every major manufacturer. No house brand to push. We spec what fits your restaurants and venues. Not what we're trying to move.

One partner, whole stack. Procure. Stage. Install. Maintain. POS terminals, kiosks, digital menu boards and signage, KDS, receipt and kitchen printers, payment and pin pads, drive-thru headsets, mobile computing and handhelds, networking and Wi-Fi. One team accountable. Not three phone numbers when something breaks.

Pricing that holds. Memory and component prices swing every week. We don't. Whether you're outfitting new locations or refreshing a fleet across hundreds of restaurants, the price holds: certified refurbished and like-new hardware, restored to enterprise-grade, often up to 40% below new.

End of life isn't a dead end. Most vendors only touch reclamation because a project forced them to. For us, buyback is a core service.

We put money back on your investment whether or not we win the service business.

  • Send us your equipment list. We make an offer.
  • We handle logistics and secure data destruction.
  • You get a check. Put it toward new hardware and we add 10%.

One of the biggest casual-dining chains in the country swapped out their POS kit. We bought back 1,000+ units and cut them a check for about $1 million gear that was otherwise headed for a closet or the scrap pile.

Most operators budget a refresh as pure spend. It doesn't have to be.

The install team. Grand openings that can't slip. Overnight remodels. Drive-thru resets. We work the window you give us and turn everything up before the doors open. POS, menu boards, KDS, cabling. Smart hands to large multi-site rollouts. You always know where the job stands. No surprises on opening morning. 1,850+ techs across 99% of the U.S…Someone's always close.

We've installed 5,000,000+ feet of low-voltage cabling: including 30+ miles for a single national entertainment venue's new-venue openings.


Come find us: Booth 616. Gaylord Texan, Grapevine, Sept 23–25.

  • Bring the buildout and I'll walk it with you what it takes to deploy and support it, not just what it does in a demo.
  • Legacy hardware heading for retirement? Bring the list. I'll tell you what it's worth.
  • Just want operator talk about what's working in QSR and hospitality right now? Best conversation at the show.


No deck. No procurement obligation. Just the part nobody else on that floor wants to talk about.

Buying the box is the easy part. Let's talk about the rest.