As menus shift from soups and teas to light salads and lemonades, we’re back with another news industry roundup. Spring is on the horizon, and we’re here to serve you a leafy green mix of restaurant industry happenings filled with Domino’s digital efforts, consumer data control, and McDonald’s …
Are Complicated Restaurant Promotions Driving Your Guests Away?
Attracting new customers to your restaurant, while retaining loyal guests, is an ongoing effort. Restaurant marketing teams focus on many promotions throughout the year, from straight-forward percentage discounts to buy-one-get-one (BOGO) deals, to the "promo-with-a-twist" (For example, "BOGO meal …
How to Discontinue a Restaurant Menu Item
Suppose you find that something on your menu isn’t quite working. You know it isn’t working in your gut, and your staff confirms it. Beyond that anecdotal evidence, you’ve used quantitative data analytics tools to inform your menu engineering, and you’re ready to take the next step. Learning how to …
3 Ways The Restaurant Business Is Becoming a Tech Business
Digital transformations continue to convert businesses of all types into tech businesses. This evolution includes restaurants, of course, one of the oldest entrepreneurial industries in history. Whether a restaurant operator immigrated from afar or is an American-born foodie with ownership …
Restaurant Industry Roundup: January 2020
Does anyone else think January lasted eighty days instead of thirty-one? Wow. Welcome to February, let's look back at January's news. Today's menu will take us across the globe, beginning with the U.K. Next, follow us on a tasty tour through ghost kitchens and their impact on the QSR landscape with …
How to Simplify Your Restaurant Delivery Service
More and more, younger generations are opting to stay in. That trend runs parallel with the rise of off-premise dining, which has become a more than 200 billion dollar global market. Around 60 percent of customers in the U.S. order delivery or takeout once per week and research indicates that the …