Del Taco names former hotel exec to top marketing tech job

September 23, 2020

Del Taco has named Erin Levzow, former Marcus Hotel & Resorts marketing VP, as its vice president of marketing technology. The brand said in a news release…

SpotOn Transact secures $60M in funding

September 23, 2020

SpotOn Transact, Inc. a software and payments company, has secured $60 million in Series C funding. The round was led by DST Gobal, an investment firm, with…

Designing and creating a profitable food truck patio space

Whether you live in warmth all year long or you’re looking to take advantage of the summer sunshine, food truck operators should consider transforming unused…

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ICX Association names Elevate Award winners

September 22, 2020

The Interactive Customer Experience (ICX) Association presented its annual Elevate Awards during a livestream earlier today.

Ordrslip, Postmates team up to offer delivery services

September 22, 2020

Ordrslip, a SaaS provider, is partnering with Postmates to give restaurants another way to offer delivery. The duo allows brands to create custom-looking white…

Carl's Jr, Hardee's parent adds 2 C-suite execs

September 22, 2020

Carl's Jr. and Hardee's parent company, CKE Restaurant Holdings Inc., has named two C-suite executives to key positions. Former Jack in the Box CFO Lance…

Dunkin' aims to 'own' National Coffee Day

September 22, 2020

Dunkin' has unofficially renamed the unofficial "holiday" of National Coffee Day on Sept. 29 as National Dunkin' Day. And of course, the brand is willingly…

Dream Dinners expands menu, home delivery

September 22, 2020

Meal kit company, Dream Dinners, has expanded its menu to 20 dinner options, including four new entrees, available for pickup or delivery from 70 locations in…

Cleveland-based pizza QSR heats up fall offerings

September 22, 2020

Cleveland, Ohio-based Rascal House has introduced the Fiesta Crunch Pizza, available until Nov. 1, at all five Rascal House restaurants, a news release…

The big bonuses of building better benefits for QSR employees

That old notion that you only get out of something what you put into it applies equally well to QSR employees, as Checkers & Rally's discovered through recent…

PepsiCo creator Donald Kendall passes away

September 21, 2020

Donald M. Kendall Donald M. Kendall, who engineered the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay and built PepsiCo Inc. into one of the largest food and…

Impossible Burger is big in Canada

September 21, 2020

Only two weeks after its launch in Canada, Impossible Foods has partnered with nearly 200 burger chains — including Wahlburgers, Burger Priest and Red Robin …

Sustainable recovered wood-sourced QSR bag introduced

September 21, 2020

Rayonier Advanced Materials is introducing a bag, specifically geared to the quick-service restaurant sector, called Envirosmart, a news release said.

Baskin-Robbins, actor Taye Diggs create children's e-book

September 18, 2020

Baskin-Robbins has teamed up with actor and author Taye Diggs to bring the brand's Creature Creations lineup to life with the release of a children's e-book…

Huddle House-Perkins hustling toward pandemic-era marketing moves

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Hustle - noun: meaning busy movement and activity. Many restaurant brands have embraced the term "hustle" over the past year to navigate the pandemic-era…

Nathan's Famous launches in Dubai with 16-patty 'Burj-urger'

September 17, 2020

Nathan's Famous Inc. made its Dubai late last month after partnering with managed cloud kitchen platform, Kitopi. The brand said in a news release that it will…

Keeping Your Restaurant Nimble in a Crisis with Back-of-House Technology

Successfully navigating a restaurant through the unpredictable current of a global pandemic demands more than just obvious tactics.

Burger King US wipes out Whoppers' artificial add-ins

September 17, 2020

Burger King's Whopper sandwiches are now free of artificial colors, flavors and preservatives thanks to "substantial changes" made by the company to embrace…

Grab your grog! Talk Like a Pirate Day is back at Long John Silver's

September 17, 2020

That favorite day of sea- and seafood-lovers everywhere — Talk Like a Pirate Day — is Saturday, and the nation's largest fast food seafood chain is hoisting…

Hughes Pioneers Self-Healing Capability that Improves Enterprise Wide Area Network Performance Using Artificial Intelligence

First-of-its-kind AIOps capability deployed across tens of thousands of WAN sites delivers 70% success in averting service disruptions