Arby's selects Oracle E-Business Suite

June 25, 2006

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. — Arby's has selected the Oracle E-Business Suite to help improve financial reporting, workforce management, new store construction and…

VeriFone introduces drive-thru payment system

May 22, 2006

CHICAGO — VeriFone Holdings Inc. announced a rugged and secure drive-thru consumer-operated payment solution, the QX720, that supports credit, debit and…

U.S. appetite for fast-food grows, study says

April 19, 2006

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Despite criticism of fast-food by consumer advocacy groups and news stories warning about an obesity epidemic, QSR usage is up…

Stop employee theft

March 29, 2006

QSRs are common targets for robbery because they're cash-based businesses. That also makes them regular marks for employee theft.   "Management is seldom…

Kitchen software helps Del Taco

March 29, 2006

Increasing speed is a goal for every QSR, and Del Taco implemented technology that does just that: QSR Automations ePic Kitchen Display Software (KDS). Henry…

Operators upgrade POS systems instead of replacing

March 29, 2006

With today's tight budgets, it may not make financial sense for operators to invest in a new POS system. That was the case for Chris Nonnemaker, a franchise…

ACS to manage Burger King's global enterprise server

March 28, 2006

DALLAS — Affiliated Computer Services Inc.  announced that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar information technology outsourcing (ITO) contract with…

Kiosks could change QSRs to SSR, self-service restaurants

March 27, 2006

CNNMoney.com: New technology innovations could soon force the restaurant industry to change an often-used acronym -- QSR, or quick-service restaurant -- to…

Burger King selects ViaSat for network

March 26, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO — ViaSat Inc. said it has been selected as the network service provider for Burger King Corp. in North America. Financial terms were not…

Arby's Restaurant Group selects Mitel

March 23, 2006

OTTAWA, Ontario --  Mitel announced that Arby's Restaurant Group Inc. has upgraded its communications capabilities at its global headquarters in Atlanta with…

Subway franchisee chooses Cisco Systems

March 14, 2006

SAN DIEGO — Cisco Systems Inc. announced that a franchisee of 26 Subway restaurants in Tucson, Ariz., will deploy the Cisco Unified Communications system to…

SUBWAY approves NCR as POS vendor

March 9, 2006

ATLANTA — The SUBWAY restaurant chain has named NCR Corp. an approved point-of-sale (POS) solution provider. According to a news release, the NCR RealPOS 7…

McDonald's rolls out online recruitment

March 7, 2006

ComputerWorld.com: As part of its e-People strategy, McDonalds Restaurant is rolling out an online recruitment and staff induction platform to 730 retail food…

Verizon Wireless wins contract with Chick-fil-A

March 6, 2006

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Verizon Wireless announced that Chick-fil-A Inc. has signed a two-year, voice and data agreement. Implemented in January, this agreement…

McDonald's kiosk experiment

McDonald's has test marketed many media sales projects, including pay-to-play Wi-Fi Internet access and its current Redbox DVD rental kiosks.

Dunkin' Donuts now searchable through GPS device

February 22, 2006

CONCORD, Mass.—Motorists can now tap their TomTom navigation systems and see Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins logos as points of interest (POI) on the 3D…

Advanced Systems Concepts lands Whataburger

February 8, 2006

PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Whataburger has selected Advanced Systems Concepts Inc.'s ActiveBatch job scheduling system to facilitate sales and cash analysis on a…

Del Taco selects Radiant Systems

February 5, 2006

ATLANTA — Del Taco selected Radiant Systems Inc. as its technology provider for more than 250 corporate and franchisee locations. Del Taco's complete solution…

Burger King selects ParTech as tech provider

January 24, 2006

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. — ParTech Inc. announced that it successfully completed Burger King Corporation's technology and software vendor approval process. As an…

Order confirmation

January 24, 2006

Located at the point of ordering in  the drive-thru lane, order confirmation systems deliver state-of-the-art video images on large-format, full color…