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Foodservice Industry's Top Publisher to Merge With Leading Conference, Retail Group

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 01, 2010

CHICAGO (April 1, 2010)—Yesterday, March 31, 2010, Ideal Media LLC agreed to merge the assets of its foodservice portfolio into CSP Information Group, Inc...

Chipotle outlines new marketing, tech, sourcing strategies

 By Peter Romeo on Apr. 22, 2015

Coming off a double-digit sales gain that nonetheless disappointed Wall Street, the chain is eying a number of new initiatives, from the Apple Watch to stepped-up advertising.

Operations

3 trends gaining ground in November

By Benita Gingerella on Nov. 10, 2017

As the weather turns colder, chains are tapping into diners’ desire for piping-hot comfort foods, while still keeping an eye on health.

Cocktail napkins

By Bill Main on Mar. 11, 2004

Often the recorder of lunch-time business plans, cute girls' phone numbers and Warhol-worthy doodles, the cocktail napkins can take on additional duties as a service tool.

Mobile, social and local marketing

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jul. 01, 2010

First, it was Web sites and email marketing. Now, it’s all about mobile phones, smart coupons that know your location and sites and services that hook straight into local communities. Restaurants aren’t just places to grab some grub anymore. They are active participants in the social conversation with legions of tech-savvy customers.

Marketing

Catching a buzz

By Kelly Killian on Jun. 01, 2015

When it comes to buzz specifically, it’s about innovation and differentiation, says Chris Tomasso, chief marketing officer of First Watch Restaurants and a board member of the National Restaurant Association’s Marketing Executives Group (MEG).

Leadership

A modern franchisee finds success with an old idea

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 18, 2018

Acquisitions have made KBP Foods one of the largest and fastest-growing franchises in the restaurant business. But the key to absorbing the expansion has been a notion that harkens back to the earliest days of KFC.

The skinny

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jan. 15, 2005

Many consumers say they want to eat healthier, but what’s really on their minds?

The chef's role in seafood sustainability

By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 01, 2011

Start a seafood lover talking about fish and invariably the conversation will alight on some seminal experience in his or her life that started the whole affair. For a close friend of mine who is a marine biologist, it was the Jersey Shore in the early seventies (when the Beatles’ “Octopus’s Garden” played often on the radio). For him, Cape May still has a magic all its own.

Liquid eggs become precious at any price

Jun. 10, 2015

Restaurants and bakers can’t get as much as they need.

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