QSRs sweeten things up for Valentine's Day

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

The NRA predicts 70 million American diners will mark the occasion.

Will Google Offers help or hurt restaurant sales?

Some experts are apprehensive about the new program’s fit for restaurants and believe the concept may even lower a brand's value.  

2011 provides optimism for restaurant industry

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

Trends will surround healthy, sustainable, local, social and technological components.  

Checkers/Rally’s unveils new digital campaigns

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc. has launched a robust digital campaign that includes new websites for both its Checkers and Rally’s brands, a mobile web…

Top That! Pizza inks multi-state deal

In a push to enter the small fast casual pizza segment (with a quick-service price-point), Lori Walderich -- chief creative officer at IdeaStudio -- and her…

BK- No king of coffee, but not the jester

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With the QSR coffee race well underway, and McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts jockeying for the top spot, Burger King could be considered a dark horse.

Commentary: The Extended Hours Debate

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As Burger King executives decide to restrict late-night operations, here's a look at the issue from a loss prevention perspective.

Culver’s taking a healthful approach

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

QSR chain launches Mindful Choices program to promote nutrition.  

QSRweb.com’s Top 10 of 2010

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

It’s been quite a roller coaster year for the quick-service industry. Restaurants continued to dig out of the economic mess, posting modest improvements; the…

Wells Fargo rolls out mobile payment pilot

by Valerie Killifer — Editor, FastCasual.com

Wells Fargo & Company is rolling out a Visa microSD mobile payment pilot that will include 200 Wells Fargo team members who are users of specific…

Gift cards to boost industry sales

by Valerie Killifer — Editor, FastCasual.com

Despite modest gains, the National Restaurant Association’s chief economist is predicting the continued tightening of consumer spending.

The evolution of the value menu

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

Permanent discount offerings are tricky to balance at already low-price point QSRs.

More than figgy pudding and good cheer

By Amanda French

Dairy Queen marches to the Trusonic beat

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

QSR chain taps new in-store music provider.

Call it a comeback: The return of the McRib

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

If any quick-service menu item could come back to life as a rock star, it would be the McDonald's McRib sandwich.

Let your iPhones do the walking

Though geolocation-enabled apps have gained some traction in the restaurant world via search sites and location-based ordering apps, none have involved the…

Digital menu boards, kiosks, mobile integration make hip NYC eatery 'a misanthrope's utopia'

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NEXTEP combines digital displays, kiosks and an SMS alert system to create an integrated self-service dining experience.

KFC U.K. units testing table touch screens

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

KFC outlets in Nuneaton and Cannock, United Kingdom are testing minature projection systems that offer touch screen technology in the restaurants' tables and…

Fall back on old classics

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

Autumn tends to bring out the best in our senses – vivid colors of changing leaves; nostalgic smells of campfires; pleasant tastes of seasonal spices.

Location, location, location: McDonald's and Burger King U.K. deploy locator apps

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

Craving a Whopper or a Big Mac? You're in luck ... if you're in the United Kingdom.