social media

Wildfire Restaurants has a full-time Social Media Director who tweets people who check into their restaurant via FourSquare, to thank them for coming...

Four months after releasing research that indicated daily deals live up to their potential, Technomic has issued new data that shows restaurants aren’t convinced.

If you took a United or Delta flight to the 2012 Restaurant Leadership Conference in March in Scottsdale, Arizona, you had the option to forego a printed boarding pass, using a QR code sent to your smartphone instead. In a world where 80 percent of the population owns a mobile device (and only 47 percent own a toothbrush), cellphones and tablets are replacing pagers, wallets, credit cards and even keys. Here’s a round-up of mobile solutions from the floor of RLC to keep an eye on.