finance

Managing Inventory in These Times: Don't Trust the System

By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 03, 2009

He wanted to find out why his expensive, relatively new ERP system had allowed inventory to balloon even though sales had plummeted. And he wanted to know...

An RLC trend report

By Patricia Cobe on Mar. 29, 2011

Value-oriented consumers, increased protein prices and the social media revolution were a few of the trends laid out during presentations by Technomic and GE Capital at the Restaurant Leadership Conference.

Lessons from a peace summit

By Peter Romeo on Aug. 12, 2014

At the FARE conference in June retail and restaurant operators called a truce to share ideas.

Operations

New vs. used equipment

By Rob Benes on Feb. 02, 2015

The conundrum facing operators is to go with new, used or both. Budget, needs and anticipated usage are the major considerations.

This week’s head-spinning moments: 6 overlooked wows from McD’s turnaround plan

By Peter Romeo on May 08, 2015

In some ways, there were actually three plans packed with different levels of CEO Steve Easterbrook. Some of the possibilities he raised could have been missed, but shouldn’t be.