Family Dining

Food

The breadth of barbecue

Available in the North, South, East and West, chefs and pitmasters from fast casual to fine dining continue to redefine barbecue.

Trends from the top

Fine dining has evolved, adapting a more humble and more accessible attitude to appeal to more wallet-conscious customers.

Buffalo Wild Wings is widely regarded in the business community as a leader. So where is that leader taking its consumer-facing technology?

Apple Pay. Tap-and-Go. PayPal. EMV. In the ever-evolving world of payment, restaurants are being forced to reevaluate their POS systems and potentially spend large sums to upgrade with the times.

The research says that about half of Americans make resolutions—and by now, a quarter of us already have abandoned them. But I’m holding out hope for this list of to-dos to help me make a better restaurant-goer in the coming year. And I’m sharing them here not only to keep me honest, but also in hope that other consumers will join me.

Arooga’s Grille House & Sports Bar sell several tons of chicken wings, however, the bar staple wasn't as popular with female customers—about half of its clientele. To develop a lighter version, R&D started with unbreaded chicken-breast chunks which it bakes instead of fries. Guests ordering the wings can have them tossed with one of the same 30 sauces available on all the wings.

After testing two burgers as LTOs in two stores, Bruegger’s now is rolling them out systemwide (along with other grilled lunch sandwiches) over the first quarter of 2015.

Millennial customers may be getting all the attention from restaurants right now, but Gen Z—those 21 years of age and younger—quickly is emerging as a formidable group of consumers.

Customers will be able to use their AmEx rewards points, earn premiums through a new loyalty program and manage their own wait times remotely.

A Performance Food Group executive testified that the competitive stature of his company would be enhanced by the combined companies’ sale of 11 distribution centers.

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