How restaurants can prep for flooding as spring rains approach

March 20, 2019

After flooding in the Midwest and in anticipation of what will likely be more flooding this spring when annual rains fall, food safety firm, Steritech released…

Millennials with kids increase restaurant visits by 5 %

March 20, 2019

Millennials with children increased their restaurant visits by 5 percent last year over 2017, according to recent information from NPD Group. This compares…

Menufy & SpeedLine Point of Sale Integration Helps Restaurants Expand Their Off-Premise Business

A fully integrated solution between online and mobile food ordering provider Menufy, and pizzeria point of sale (POS) provider SpeedLine Solutions Inc., is…

Del Taco wraps up profitable 2018, launching proprietary plant-based 'beef' in next quarter

March 19, 2019

Del Taco wrapped up its sixth straight year of sales growth, along with its Q4 2018 on Jan. 1 thanks in some part to reports of higher check totals. For the…

Checkers, Rally's starts using 5 delivery services within single system-wide POS

March 19, 2019

Checkers & Rally's are launching a new delivery platform that the chain said in a news release brings Uber Eats, DoorDash, Postmates, Grubhub and Amazon…

Food marketing guru Fogelson tells brands why knowing thyself, now means knowing thy cause

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Food marketing sage and former Food Networking and Cooking Channel Senior Vice President of Marketing and Brand Strategy Susie Fogelson has made a career of…

Leveraging Analytics to Improve Restaurant Operations

Restaurant operators have a firehose of data they can drink from to improve operations. The challenge is to make sense of the flood.

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Wendy's, Subway pitch for a place in the 'Big Dance'

March 18, 2019

QSR brands know very well where a huge share of their customers will be for the immediate future. That's right, in front of a screen firmly fixed on all the…

Burger King aims to 'wake up' app subscriptions with free daily java offer

March 15, 2019

Burger King wants app users and it's enticing them with the smell of sweet caffeine to get their business.

Huddle House executive on deploying digital to serve small towns better

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

Think of Huddle House and you might think "small town," "home-cooking," maybe even "old-fashioned." But, on that last count, you'd be wrong. In fact, this year…

Wavicle launches subscription-based service to help restaurants capture, manage data

March 14, 2019

Wavicle Data Solutions, a provider of data and analytics solutions and services, launched ActiveDash this week during the 2019 Restaurant Franchising &…

KFC UK puts 3K customers in the kitchen for a day

March 14, 2019

From in-restaurant art making events to food-and-wine pairing classes, many brands are working interactive customer experiences into operations, but few QSRs…

Dairy Queen's free cone day features orange cones (the good kind) this year

March 14, 2019

We're mere days away from the start of spring and you know what that means, right? Of course, Cone Day is less than one week away. We're speaking here not of…

Chick-fil-A gets frosted for spring

March 14, 2019

On Monday, March 18, Chick-fil-A goes from St. Patrick's Day green to frosty spring-inspired citrus with the introduction of its Frosted Key Lime offering with…

&pizza CEO on the limited-service leader's key role as employee advocate

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

In the final half of the podcast interview with &pizza CEO Michael Lastoria, the discussion revolves around something the restaurant industry also revolves…

What Danny Meyer’s book doesn’t tell you about the restaurant business

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Frank Klein, founder and CEO of Asian Box, is an admirer of Danny Meyer, but he thinks the famed restaurateur failed to include the dark side of the restaurant…

Arby's, Little Caesars, Five Guys, Dunkin' settle no-poach case

March 13, 2019

Arby's, Little Caesars, Five Guys and Dunkin' have agreed to a settlement with 14 state attorney generals over the use of "no poach" agreements that…

Smoke’s Poutinerie founder: 'We are entertainers'

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Ryan Smolkin, whose Smoke's Poutinerie has opened more than 150 locations in North America in less than 10 years, insists he is in the entertainment business…

Jack in the Box 1st mobile app answers 'on-the-go' customers' needs

March 12, 2019

Jack in the Box is betting — like so many other QSR brands — that mobile phones are not only "where it's at," but where it will be for customers far into the…

Wendy's bets on beverages to 'basket' March Madness business

March 12, 2019

The "madness" — as in the basketball-centered March Madness that hits the U.S. each year — is just around the corner and, as the official hamburger of the…