The wait is over: Google has finally introduced a feature to help hungry searchers find out not only when a restaurant is likely to be busy, but how busy it actually is at the exact moment they’re searching and how long they would have to...
What is a short-staffed restaurateur to do when he needs more help on short notice? Short of roping in off-duty employees or hiring friends of his current staff, he may simply be left holding the short straw. Sometimes the open shift gets filled. Sometimes everybody...
The Florida Restaurant and Lodging Show is an annual three-day event for hospitality professionals to network, source, purchase and learn about new industry trends to follow, how to increase profits and how to ramp up their restaurant or lodging business to engage and serve customers...
Spend smarter, not harder. That’s the approach Kroger is taking as it endeavors to reset its existing supermarket stores to optimize space and keep customer favorites front and center on shelves. The data-driven “Restock Kroger” initiative will largely take the place of new growth in...
Grubhub isn’t just about hungry people. It’s a hungry brand, gobbling up three different food delivery competitors in the last quarter alone: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. The Eat24 deal closed last week on Oct. 10 and rounded out the company’s...
Advertising is a challenge in the omnichannel age, no matter who you are — but perhaps for none more so than quick service restaurants (QSRs), at least according to Duncan McCall, CEO of data and technology company PlaceIQ. In general, McCall explained, QSRs represent an industry...
There’s more than one way to bring groceries to consumers. Speedy delivery direct to their doorstep is certainly one, and one that’s garnering a lot of media interest these days, whether it’s through Amazon, Instacart, or even Walmart (which is taking it a step further...
Americans waste tons of food, and that’s a fact — 1.3 billion tons of it a year, to be precise, or 30 to 40 percent of the total supply. Social and political implications aside, that’s just bad business. Supermarkets and restaurants are stocking nearly twice as...
Restaurants are cracking down on an issue that has long been very serious — deadly serious, in fact — for many diners: food allergies. Food allergies run the gamut from sensitivities to outright intolerances. Severe ones can send sufferers into anaphylactic shock, while others may simply result...
