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3 steps to make third-party ordering work for your restaurant
by Jennifer Wiebe — Marketing Manager, Speedline Solutions
Third-party sites generate sales — and often new customers — so they don't want to shut off the tap. But they're pulling their hair out over the transaction…
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Study: Brand loyalty programs fastest route to a millennial's heart
June 8, 2016
Loyalty programs are proving valuable with consumers and are paying off in more ways than one.
read nowColorado chain capitalizes on love for a good breakfast and man's best friend
June 8, 2016
Good Times Burgers and Frozen Custard in Colorado is getting in on the popular breakfast trend by debuting a new line of double-egg breakfast sandwiches and…
read nowBlimpie gets spicy for summer
June 8, 2016
Blimpie is upping the spice quotient this summer on sandwiches by introducing new barbecue concoctions including the Spicy Piggy, Twisted Piggy and BBQ Chick…
read now100M and counting as Arby's builds its sliders success
June 8, 2016
Arby's launched a lineup of five mini sandwiches last September that the chain dubbed simply as sliders. Now, after the restaurant looked at sales response…
read nowSubway teams with Accenture to launch digital division
June 8, 2016
Subway has launched a new division, Subway Digital, in collaboration with Accenture, to build a multichannel strategy to enhance customer engagement and…
read nowQSR deals, breakfast are bright spots in slow-growing restaurant industry
June 8, 2016
The restaurant industry remains, as it has for the last six years, on a slow and steady growth path of about 1 percent annually, according to ongoing…
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Are your diners a little lost?
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
A new poll finds there's a lot of confusion out in America's restaurant dining rooms about just what those menu items really are.
read nowMcDonald's remains No. 1 in brand value study
June 8, 2016
The latest brand value ratings are in from the BrandZ annual study and the top three spots are McDonald’s, followed by Starbucks and then, Subway in the No. …
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Part 3: Smaller brands, offbeat products win big in trend toward higher-end eating
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Within the food service industry, the growing trend toward upscale ingredients delivered quickly is not only changing the way restaurants do business, but it's…
read nowWingstop launches dynamic social ordering platform
June 7, 2016
Wingstop debuted a multi-channel social ordering platform this week, stating it is the first of its kind and offers order-placing via Twitter and Facebook…
read nowStudy: Corporations need to more closely monitor employees' dining expenses
June 7, 2016
Corporations might soon be tightening limits on money spent for business-related dining and catering if the findings of a new research study by Dinova LLC and…
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Franchising Focus: Del Taco grows on quality, value
by Travis Wagoner — Editor, Networld Media Group
The Del Taco restaurant chain has become a huge success since its beginnings in 1964. That's when Ed Hackbarth opened the first Del Taco location in Barstow…
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Part Two: A glimpse of the groundwork involved in creating a new food service sector
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
In part two of this series on a new food service sector that some have called "luxury QSR," the first official player in that category talks about the kind of…
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Week-old Chick-fil-A app hits No. 1 for iTunes downloads
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
In case you haven't heard the news, Chick-fil-A has managed to become the No. 1 most downloaded free app on iTunes, not only by announcing the introduction of…
read nowOrange is the new white ... at least for fries
June 6, 2016
The hot potato these days in the restaurant industry may not be that old reliable pale-meated tuber so cherished by Americans, but rather its orange-skinned…
read nowmPOS increases faster than expected, opens market to new vendors
June 6, 2016
Restaurateurs still pondering a move to smartphone- and tablet-based POS systems might be interested in the latest Juniper Research study: It predicts that…
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Part One: A new restaurant sector pokes its way out of the shell in California
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
In this first of a three-part series, we take a closer look at the chain that claims it's inventing a new restaurant sector that combines speed and quality…
read nowYum! announces pricing of notes offering
June 3, 2016
Yum! Brands Inc announced that certain subsidiaries operating KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants have agreed to issue and sell $1.05 billion aggregate…
read nowTexas Chicken steps into Laos, expands Asian footprint
June 3, 2016
Texas Chicken is increasing its footprint in Asia — this time in Laos with a deal that will open seven restaurants in the Southeast Asian nation in the next…
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