McDonald’s automated cashier: Will it win with millennials?

by Jeff Fromm — Executive Vice President, Barkley

Using self-service kiosks will provide the chain with customer data to enable more personal engagement and purchasing suggestions.

Subway co-op selects PeopleMatter’s employee onboarding platform

May 27, 2014

Subway’s franchisee-owned purchasing cooperative, The Independent Purchasing Cooperative, has partnered with workforce talent management provider PeopleMatter…

Fresh Alarms programmable timers now available nationally

May 22, 2014

Fresh Alarms, which have been available to select QSR insiders, are now available nationwide. The programmable timers help restaurant managers by reminding…

Webinar: Case Study: Control Labor Costs with Latest Cloud Technology

How can store managers proactively hit their sales per labor hour targets if they don’t have immediate access to timely and accurate workforce information?

Plenty of new product launches expected at the National Restaurant Association Show

by Alicia Kelso — senior editor, QSRweb.com

Mobile and digital continue to be top trends, as does integrated technology solutions.

3M Drive-Thru Headset G5 includes on-the-spot repair feature

May 15, 2014

3M this week announced the new Drive-Thru Headset G5 that was created to help defray repair costs and downtime. According to a company news release, the G5 is…

Popeyes franchisee selects Revention POS

May 14, 2014

Popeyes’ franchisee Brodersen Enterprises has chosen Revention POS and Revention’s remote management solution R-Enterprise for all 30 of its restaurant…

UK Burger King franchisee selects NCR solutions

May 8, 2014

Karali Ltd., a Burger King franchisee in the United Kingdom, has selected NCR Corporation's software and hardware solutions for its 56 restaurants.

Kitchen Brains intros cloud-based food safety app

May 7, 2014

Kitchen Brains has announced the release of SCK Food Safety Manager, a cloud-based application for foodservice operators. According to a news release, the SCK…

QSR Automations adds new app for small restaurant chains

May 6, 2014

QSR Automations Inc. has launched several new updates and features to its DineTime platform, including DineTime Host Version 2.4, the new DineTime Assist app…

Quick Service Restaurant Holdings selects MICROS Simphony

May 2, 2014

Quick Service Restaurant Holdings has selected MICROS Simphony for its three Australian brands — Red Rooster, Oporto and Chicken Treat. The cloud-based MICROS…

Subway adds technology suite for multilingual initiatives

May 1, 2014

Translations.com, a provider of language services and translation-related technologies, has signed an agreement with Subway to provide the chain with…

Facial detection time clock app launched

April 23, 2014

Timesly has launched a facial detection time clock app for iPad, allowing employees to clock in or out of work by snapping their photo using Timesly's…

WhenToManage software adds social networking app for restaurants

April 23, 2014

WhenToManage, a provider of cloud-based software for the restaurant industry, has introduced Flow, a social networking tool that allows employees to share…

Registration now open for free webinar: 'Integrating mobile apps with traditional marketing'

April 17, 2014

For many restaurants, having a branded mobile app is fairly new and is often underutilized or forgotten when planning traditional marketing campaigns. This…

Foodservice event being covered in real time via Google Glass

April 14, 2014

The Washington Restaurant Association's 2014 Northwest Foodservice Show, which kicked off Sunday and continues throughout today, is featuring Google Glass live…

QSR Automations launches DineTime guest management solution

April 9, 2014

QSR Automations has introduced its new guest management solution, DineTime. According to a company news release, DineTime enables smaller-scale establishments…

Granbury, pcAmerica offering expanded online, mobile ordering options

April 3, 2014

Restaurant technology providers pcAmerica and Granbury Solutions have expanded their partnership to provide restaurants with more online and mobile ordering…

Kitchen Brains grows into Latin America

April 1, 2014

Kitchen Brains today announced its continued global expansion plans into Latin America with the opening of its Product Development and Engineering Center in…

McDonald's to use Swiff mPOS for Thailand home delivery

March 28, 2014

Swiff Friday launched a new mobile payment service with Thailand's AEON Thana Sinsap Public Company Ltd. and McDonald's for McDelivery 1711, according to a…