Executive Briefing: The Agentic Future of F&B

Alon Chen, CEO and co-founder of Tastewise, joins the show to talk through what the agentic era really asks of food and beverage teams, and why the executive conversation has shifted from whether to adopt agents to how fast you can rebuild around them. We cover the perfect storm hitting the industry (GLP-1, own-brand pressure, challenger brands scaling in record time), why throwing another tool at your go-to-market only deepens the problem, and why data context is the real differentiator. Alon makes the case for modeling agents on your best people instead of replacing them, and shares the one thing any team can do tomorrow to find out whether they're actually operating in an agentic environment or just catching up.