Features
Help from restaurant industry pours into Texas, Louisiana's flooded areas
by Cherryh Cansler — Editor, FastCasual.com
Brands and vendors in the restaurant industry have donated millions of dollars to help flood victims.
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Kansas City pizza truck earns points in building brand visibility, Part 2
by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times
The fast casual pizza concept is still new to a lot of people, and the food truck has improved customer awareness of this concept.
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Caliburger’s CEO offers vision for automated restaurants
by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times
Automated restaurants, driven by artificial intelligence and robots, is closer than many think, according to the CEO of a company involved with automation…
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Commodities: Domino's fall where they may as take-and-bake comes into play
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Eating out is fast becoming eating in, and Wall Street appears to be taking notice when it comes to prices paid for pizza stocks of late.
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Former Papa Murphy's CDO: Ask 3 questions before investing in tech
by Will Hernandez — Editor, NetWorld Media Group
As restaurants consider deploying technology, such as a loyalty program, branded app or mobile payments, executives should first consider whether such efforts…
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Kansas City pizza franchisee uses food truck to build brand visibility (Part 1)
by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times
Being an established restaurant operation, KC Pie brought some key advantages to launching a food truck, but still had to learn the nuances of the food truck…
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Top take-homes in teaching restaurant tech to work together
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Competition and narrow margins in the restaurant business demand a nip-and-tuck approach to efficiency. Uncle Maddio's recently worked with ParTech to…
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Fazoli's 'Comeback Kid' shares turnaround story at London summit
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
"It was ugly," Fazoli's President and CEO Carl Howard exclaimed as he detailed the state of the chain when he arrived to lead it nine years ago. "I mean…
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Commodities: Last week's markets a preview of eclipse for some brands
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
It might have seemed to some last week that today's total eclipse was coming early, as stock prices fell or flattened for the majority of brands monitored here…
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Play now or Pay later: Webinar relays KFC and Pizza Hut lessons on loyalty and mobile ordering
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
KFC and Pizza Hut put their loyalty and mobile ordering experience on the chalkboard.
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London Summit: Coyote Ugly's key considerations before taking on the world
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Coyote Ugly has learned to speak a lot of different languages along its path to global growth. Here, one of the chain's leaders shares the key elements for any…
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Commodities: Ups, downs and everything in between last week
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
On the commodities market last week, prices were a grab-bag of variations, depending on things like quality, variety and geographic location.
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'The Franchise Handbook' author says innovation is path to restaurant royalty
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
"The Franchise Handbook" author Carl Reader tells London audience that innovation sets the winners apart from the others in today's restaurant business.
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Commodities: Domino's recovers ... some
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The first full week of the dog days of August found most pizza brands wagging their tails, particularly Domino's and Papa John's, which saw bumps in value over…
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Perfect Pitch finalists revealed
The owners of Brazilian Bowl based in Lakeview, Illinois; Toronto's Street Shak Caribbean Kitchen and Capitol Melts, based in Albany, New York, will pitch…
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Commodities: Domino's definitely do fall ... and fast
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The news in pizza stocks last week was Domino's. The brand watched its stock do a peregrine falcon-style dive Tuesday, dropping 8 percent from the previous…
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Looking for ways to find and keep employees? NRA leaders offer insights
by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times
Given the reality of fewer young employees in the work force, the only options are to recruit more from other age groups or be more successful recruiting…
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Commodities: Markets yield midsummer merriment for pizza brands
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
It was an especially nice week for pizza stocks, with all four brands monitored here showing healthy gains over the course of the trading week.
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3 commonalities among Lyfe Kitchen, Urban Plates, Baskin Robbins brand-building strategies
by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times
Building a successful brand has three parts: storytelling, club making and country building, according to a branding expert at the National Restaurant Show.
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Webinar: The Halal Guys shares 3 loyalty lessons with big pay-offs
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The Halal Guys Marketing Director Andrew Eck related valuable information in the hour-long session, including three principles that he said brands must keep in…
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