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Hot apps

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 01, 2010

Smartphone applications for the mobile restaurateur

Daily deals are everywhere. Here's your primer.

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 01, 2011

Daily deal websites are quickly becoming an essential marketing tool. Each day these sites send out deals to millions of bargain-hungry subscribers. Now there’s evidence of a real payoff for restaurants that participate: A recent Technomic survey found that 48 percent of deal buyers used coupons at restaurants they’d never visited.

Technology

Trends on the tech floor

By Amanda M. Westbrooks on Jun. 05, 2012

It’s an exciting time in hospitality technology. We’re right on the cusp of some really great game-changers, offering ways to improve the guest experience that we never before imagined. Which ones seem to have more legs than others?

Operations

Pops of color in a sea of stainless steel

By Patricia Cobe on Feb. 20, 2013

While stainless steel still reigns supreme, a number of manufacturers are jazzing up their equipment with bright bursts of color.

Post-NRA Show attitude adjustments

By Peter Romeo on May 20, 2014

If colleagues attended the NRA Show and you didn’t, grant them some deep-thought time. They’re likely grappling with new necessities that mandate changes in their attitudes and ways of doing business. You may want to sit at their feet and get a download, Grasshopper.

TGI Fridays opts to give servers, not guests, a tablet

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 13, 2015

TGI Fridays is taking a different tack than competitors like Chili’s and Applebee’s in its embrace of order-placement tablets.

Edna Morris tapped to clean up James Beard

By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 23, 2005

Edna Morris has been named the interim executive director of the James Beard Foundation, with responsibility for cleaning up the organization's image and structure in the wake of a scandal related to a former chief's embezzlement of funds.

Meals and deals @ the Cafe

By Restaurant Business Staff on Dec. 07, 2007

Targeting the wandering workforce. A laptop, cell phone and a grande latte are all you need to set up a mobile office at any Starbucks.

Consumers looking for more sandwich variety, finds Technomic

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 17, 2010

CHICAGO (May 17, 2010 - Business Wire)—Diners want more variety in sandwiches, with expectations highest in those aged 18 to 24. According to a new report...

Jon Luther, Sid Feltenstein to aid Arby's turnaround

By Peter Romeo on Oct. 31, 2011

Brand rejuvenators Jon Luther and Sid Feltenstein have been recruited by the new owner of Arby’s to provide their counsel during the chain’s revitalization efforts.

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