Olive Garden

Tax reform has restaurants confident heading into 2018

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 10, 2018

But companies at the ICR Conference reveal the industry’s conflicting challenges regarding sales.

Darden's Olive Garden's Sept. same-store sales climb 0.6 percent

Oct. 02, 2014

Same store sales for September inched upward by 0.6 percent. How to revive the chain is a point of contention between Darden Restaurants and Starboard Value, a dissident shareholder that hopes to seize the board. Capital Grille posted a comp sales game of 6.4 percent, while Longhorn Steakhouse raised comps by 3.2 percent.

Olive Garden snags $2.1M in 1-second offer

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 15, 2016

Offering 10 times as many unlimited-visit passes as last time did not delay a sellout.

Marketing

The big idea: Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta Pass

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jan. 30, 2018

Olive Garden asked a cross-functional team—finance, marketing, operations, communications and others—to build on its Never Ending Pasta Bowl promo.

Food

The restaurant concepts likely to bloom or bomb in 2015

By Sara Rush Wirth on Dec. 19, 2014

Senior Associate Editor Sara Rush offers her picks of the concept types that are most likely to thrive or dive in 2015.

3 cheers for a restaurant Festivus

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 24, 2016

For a day, we wanted to forget the industry's problems and focus on why restaurants deserve a holiday of their own. Here are three random reasons.

This week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Starbucks experiments

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 15, 2018

The folks in green aprons are changing roles in what the company calls Deployment 2.0, and that's just one of the developments that turned heads in the restaurant industry this week.

Seaweed: The ocean's vegetable

By Restaurant Business Staff on Mar. 15, 2002

Seaweed is the ocean's top vegetable crop.

Technology

3 new touchpoints for frictionless service

By Kate Leahy on Apr. 16, 2015

Frictionless service—when transactions at restaurants, between ordering, paying and receiving a meal, happen with less human interaction to slow down the process.

Operations

This week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Double turns

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 10, 2017

No sooner had one arresting development arisen than another quickly followed in its wake, making neck braces an acceptable fashion accessory.

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