50 Great Ideas 2024
50 Great Ideas 2024
Times are tough in the restaurant industry, as operators face pressures from all sides: Falling traffic, increased labor costs, uncertainty over technology, high food costs, the list goes on.
50 Great Ideas 2024
A CEO without a home perch
Many CEOs boast about having an open-door policy. Peter Cancro, chief of the Jersey Mike’s Subs chain, prefers not to have a door at all. Nor an office, for that matter. One of ways he ensures interac...
Beer is good. Wasted beer is bad. The Primanti Bros. chain in early 2023 tested a new technology, called BeerBoard, that tracks the number of beers poured versus the number of beers sold. The idea is to ensure that bartenders are pouring the correct number of beers. The company liked it so much that the technology was expanded to all 42 restaurants. The result: A 300-basis-point reduction in the cost of draft beer sold.