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Alaina Lancaster

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Alaina Lancaster

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Consumer Trends

3 trendlettes to watch for October

Here are three shake-ups to look out for this month.

Technology

2016 RB/FSTEC Awards: Technical perfection

This year’s class of social media standouts found surprising ways to break through on popular platforms, reinvent their voice on established ones and gain footing in the “brand”-new worlds of Snapchat, Instagram and more.

Consumers' favorite pizzerias

Foursquare asked users of its social network to pick the best pizzeria in their state. Here's the site's list, annotated with RB's business mini-profiles of the 51 choices (District of Columbia users also had a vote).

Consumer Trends

3 trendlettes to watch for September

We’re crunching a few digits that might impact the industry this fall.

7-Eleven sees how batty customers will go for a deal

Customers bring in crazy cups during the chain's annual promotion.

Seattle restaurant workers join fight against scheduling restrictions

The group cites a lack of control over schedules as a motive to fight the bill.

What Subway's partnership with DOL could mean for joint employment

The chain made an unprecedented deal to take a more hands-on approach to franchisees' labor issues.

Food

3 trendlettes we’re watching for August

This month’s menu trends provide comforting flavors in a thrilling format.

Future 50: Emerging Brands

6 tasty tidbits from the Future 50 data

See what insights were pulled out of the data from Technomic and Restaurant Business' Future 50 list. What did RB editors find valuable to pass on?

Future 50: Emerging Brands

10 Trends from The Future 50

Operators can learn lessons from traits chains on the rise share. Here’s how they are helping set the pace of the industry, by way of menu, operations and more.

A fight over secure scheduling wages on in Seattle

Seattle workers are pressing for legislation that guarantees more advance notice for scheduling and penalties for last-minute changes.

Marketing

3 ideas we stumbled upon on a road trip to Austin

Here’s what we discovered averaging four meals a day on a 19-hour journey to Austin, Texas.

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