Olive Garden

Olive Garden dusts off eat-free pass—with a sweetener

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 13, 2017

The offer should net the chain more than $2.2 million in a flash.

The week in ideas, October 14, 2011

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 14, 2011

The week of October 14th will be remembered as a week of strange ideas: some bold, some bad, some counterintuitive. But at Week in Ideas, we don't discriminate. We report, you decide.

Technology

How to engineer a digital menu

By Sara Rush Wirth on Oct. 29, 2015

When done right, digital menu features on tabletop tablets can boost sales and customer satisfaction.

Marketing

This week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Baked, not fried

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 29, 2017

Even the great Carnac couldn't have foreseen the role marijuana is about to play in restaurant sales, and that's just one of the who'd-have-believed-it developments.

Teaching to share

By Patricia Cobe on Aug. 31, 2012

"Precious" was the last thing John Brandt-Lee intended his menu to be when he launched Avalon Pasta Bistro in the Philadelphia suburb of Downington,...