Restaurant Business • 20th January 2020 Are Restaurants Ready for Blockchain? Understanding how the open-source digital tracking system called blockchain can impact a restaurant’s supply chain often starts with dismantling the hype around it.
Winsight Grocery Business • 20th January 2020 Foodservice Tech Goes From Experimental to Plausible The rise of innovation in foodservice technology has dramatically changed the way the future is being defined in all corners of the industry, including the way food will be handled and prepared.
Eater New York • 13th January 2020 Meet the Power Brokers Who Make New York’s Biggest Restaurant Deals Happen When luxury gym chain Equinox’s first-ever hotel — marketed as one of the top attractions at $25 billion development Hudson Yards and billed as “the place where compromise doesn’t exist” — opened earlier this year, the matter of who would run the corresponding restaurant was the (many, many) million-dollar question.
Grub Street • 19th December 2019 Heartland Brewery Is Set to Close Another Location Rumors are swirling that Heartland Brewery, the local chain of reliable brewpubs where many New York City tourists have huddled for refuge over lagers and burgers, is on its last legs.
Food & Wine • 7th December 2019 You Can Teach an Employee Your Values, But Can You Make Them Stick Around? In an era of high turnover and low unemployment rates, hospitality pros are struggling to retain the talent they so carefully train.
Restaurant Business • 21st October 2019 Tech’s Impact on the Workforce There’s an overwhelming amount of technology on the market for restaurants. Operators could feasibly add technology to almost any area of their business, from ordering innovations to robotics.
Expedite • 27th August 2019 Panera Adds Third Party Delivery Services A little more than a year after launching nationwide delivery, Panera is calling in reinforcements to generate more business for its delivery channel.
Eater New York • 26th August 2019 High-Profile NYC Restaurants Are Moving Into Soho’s New ‘Ghost Kitchen’ for Delivery Only Popular restaurants like Sweetgreen and Sarge’s are doubling down on their delivery efforts by partnering with a new kitchen setting up shop in Soho.
Skift Table • 2nd May 2019 OpenTable Acquires Guest Management Platform Venga OpenTable is one step closer in its mission to be a one-stop-shop for restaurant technology solutions, as parent company Booking Holdings announced the acquisition of customer data analytics platform Venga on Thursday.
Skift Table • 30th April 2019 Chipotle Rewards Execs With More Company Stock for Hitting Digital Goals Chipotle’s executive paychecks are getting officially tied, in part, to the success of the company’s digital strategy over the next couple of years.
Skift Table • 29th April 2019 Burger King to Launch Impossible Whoppers Nationwide It only took a month of market testing in St. Louis, Missouri, for Burger King to decide that the plant-based Impossible Whopper was ready for a larger stage.
Skift Table • 22nd April 2019 Fast Casual Chains Demonstrate Steady Industry Growth Slowing traffic may be a concern for traditional quick service restaurants but the pain has yet to hit the fast casual market, where consumers are lining up for responsibly-sourced salads and grain bowls with increasing regularity.
Skift Table • 17th April 2019 McDonald's Drops Signature Crafted Recipes Line Not every innovative idea is going to be a hit, even at McDonald’s.
Skift Table • 16th April 2019 Plant-Based Protein Is Breakfast's Not-So-Secret Ingredient While Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat are jockeying for ownership of the plant-based burger market, restaurant chains are moving to replicate this vegan sales success in the competitive breakfast market.
Skift Table • 11th April 2019 Taco Bell's Wacky Hiring Strategies Are Actually Working In an effort to stand out in a wildly competitive job market, Taco Bell is applying the same kind of whimsy that customers usually see in the chain’s marketing campaigns to something far more routine: job applications.
Skift Table • 9th April 2019 Fast Casual Dig Inn Is Launching a Full Service Concept Flush with a $20 million investment led by Danny Meyer’s Enlightened Hospitality Investments (EHI), vegetable-forward fast casual chain Dig Inn is ready to hit the ground running on a slew of expansion plans.
Skift Table • 8th April 2019 A Costly Investment in Staff Training Technology Pays Off Hiring at The Dead Rabbit, a world-renowned bar located in lower Manhattan, is an exhaustive process.
Skift Table • 3rd April 2019 Delivery Strategy Doesn't Matter When Guests Come for the Fun, Not the Food Delivery may be providing incremental sales boosts to national restaurant chains left and right (see: Wendy’s, Chipotle, Taco Bell, among others), but for those that have built big brands around the in-store experience, the conversation around off-premise sales is far more cautious.
Skift Table • 1st April 2019 Toast's Latest $250 Million Funding Round Will Fuel Research and Development Boston-based restaurant technology company Toast has secured a $250 million Series E round of funding, the company confirmed today, less than a year after its last huge raise.
Skift Table • 28th March 2019 DoorDash’s Latest Promotion Outlines How Hard It Is to Thrive on a Third-Party Delivery Platform Independent restaurateurs need all the help they can get to stand out from the crowd on third-party delivery platforms, where users are faced with a sea of meal options at any given time.
