In an NRN article today, see below, Lisa Jennings discusses Taco Bell’s move to cut artificial ingredients from its menu. Here is the hypothetical: Imagine our world where the largest fast food restaurant chains in our country are all 100% organic, GMO-free, no preservatives, colors, or artificial flavors. So now you have these giant chains …
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Credit Card Liability Shift & the Effect on Restauranteurs
Come October 1, 2015 there are big changes coming to the payment industry. The US is the last major market that is still using the old swipe and sign cards. The familiar card technology is blamed for the fact that the US accounts for nearly half of the world’s credit card fraud while only accounting for …
New Data in Restaurants
There’s a great article in Fast Casual By Dipock Das, VP of Technology at HotSchedules about Big Data in restaurants and how slow the industry has been to adopt new technology. But when they do adopt, and they will, it’s going to change the industry. It’s happening now. Just being at the NRA Show you can see …
“Fair work week” efforts a problem for retail, soon a problem for restaurants
Although sales numbers appear to remain positive for the restaurant industry, other challenges continue to mount. On top of the rising minimum wage restaurants are now faced with potential scheduling regulations as well. NRN.com contributor, Joe Kefauver, posted an article summarizing the regulations that are currently being proposed in some fashion in 10 states and …
Panera 2.0
An article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, “From iPad to plate, technology speeding up food at Bread Co.”, highlights some of the early findings of some of the technology improvements being made, known as Panera 2.0. Here in St. Louis Panera is still called St. Louis Bread Company or Bread Co for short. They …
Front of the House Conference
Today’s blog is a short one. I was doing some research today and I stumbled upon this small conference that I had never heard about, the Welcome Conference. This article below from Grubstreet.com, summarizes the author’s Top 10 take away’s from last year’s conference. I was bummed to find out that this year’s conference in …
McDonald’s tests delivery in New York
As part of their turnaround strategy McDonald’s has launched a delivery service test in the NYC market. The market consists of 88 stores and the ordering and delivery will be managed through Postmates which is a mobile app technology that allows customers to place orders through their mobile device. The delivery is then performed by …
MIT Is Developing Sensors To Detect When Food Is Going Bad
An article on fastcoexist.com talks about an MIT lab working on a sensor that will tell you when food is going bad vs relying on labels placed on the items. The stat in the article cites that in the US we waste 40% of the food that we harvest. They claim that sell by and …
Healthy Kids Menus
An article on NPR is citing a study that was done by ChildObesity180 on the fast casual restaurant chain Silver Diner changing up their kids menu to offer more healthy options. The study tracked some 350,000 kids menu orders covering 6 months before and 6 months after they changed the menu. Healthy meant the meal …
A Restaurant Without A Restaurant
There’s a great article in Wired about David Chang’s new venture, Maple. Talk about going crazy with implementing technology in a restaurant. Maple is a fine dining restaurant that you can’t dine in. That’s right they only offer delivery ordered through their mobile app. They have one kitchen in the financial district of Manhattan with …