equipment

NRA Announces 2009 Kitchen Innovations

By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 27, 2009

This year’s awardees will give the restaurant and hospitality industry new, state-of-the-art solutions to enhancing productivity, saving energy and water,...

NSF International Celebrates Food Safety Education Month

By Restaurant Business Staff on Sep. 04, 2009

ANN ARBOR, MI (Sept. 3) This is a great month for DSRs to set aside some time with customers to discuss ways to improve food safety in their operations...

United Natural Foods, Inc. to Adopt Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology

By Restaurant Business Staff on Mar. 17, 2010

SARASOTA, FL (March 17, 2010)—Complementing its culture of social responsibility and its commitment to utilizing clean energy, UNFI today announced plans...

Perkins Acquires Cirelli Foods, Inc.

By Restaurant Business Staff on Nov. 03, 2010

TAUNTON, MA. (November 3, 2010)—Perkins Paper, Inc. has announced the agreement to purchasecertain assets of Cirelli Foods, Inc. of Middleborough,MA,...

The Lube con queso

By Patricia Cobe on Sep. 01, 2011

When a Denver franchisee told Katy Malaniak, Quaker Steak & Lube’s senior director of food & beverage, “We really need to do something with queso,” she jumped on the idea for The Lube’s fall LTOs.

Financing

How restaurants in Portland, Oregon, are thriving on Conscious Capitalism

By Sam Smith on May 01, 2012

In the late 1990s a group of Pacific Northwest wheat farmers took stock of a bitter reality. They were shipping product to far off, overseas commodity markets, where they had no control over falling prices.

Technology

T.G.I. Friday's mobile payment app: Engaging the customer

By Restaurant Business Staff on Nov. 12, 2012

In April, T.G.I. Friday's released its own mobile payment app. While many foodservice operations have embraced mobile apps for location services, coupon offers or linking into reward programs, proprietary mobile payment apps are still somewhat unchartered territory. In the quick serve arena, Dunkin Donuts just released its own mobile payment system, and Starbucks partnered with Square for its system.

Operations

Mixologists: Top tools to create the extraordinary

By Joann Whitcher on Apr. 04, 2013

We asked some of today’s top mixologists to name their favorite tech tools behind the bar, with the direction that it didn’t have to be electronic.

Dispensing profits

By Tom O'Brien on Mar. 11, 2014

Countertop wine storage and dispensing systems deliver extended wine life and more accurate pours. But those benefits can cost anywhere from $1,000 to $6,000

Technology

McDonald’s, Wendy’s and more buy into kiosks—here’s why

By Lauren Hallow on Mar. 09, 2017

Restaurant Business breaks down the plans for kiosk implementation at top chains and checks in with other concepts that already use kiosks, including Panera, to see how the technology is working for them.

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