Toast donating $35M to restaurant recovery

December 17, 2020

Toast POS, a restaurant management platform, is donating $35 million worth of free services and funding as part of a winter restaurant relief plan to support…

Atlanta Pizza Truck: A whole new kind of 'pizza mobile platform'

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

In Italy, where pizza — and especially pizza Napoletano — is virtually a religion, three-wheeled Piaggio Ape trucks are everywhere. That's one main reason an…

Old Chicago's parent company opening 175 virtual locations

December 16, 2020

Nashville, Tennessee-based SPB Hospitality has launched its first virtual concept, Twisted Tenders, across 175 locations in 33 states, and a news release said…

Canada pizza vending machine plans expansion to Michigan

December 15, 2020

PizzaForno, a Canada automated pizza oven that bakes artisanal pizzas in less than three minutes, will have its first licensed unit in Michigan in early 2021…

Rave continues to roll during a profitable trading week

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Rave Restaurant Group is on a roll, making gains in share value over the last two weeks.

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Fast Casual Top 100 nominations now open

December 11, 2020

Nominations will close Jan. 31, and the results will be revealed at an annual awards gala in May in Chicago coinciding with the National Restaurant Association…

Is Your Restaurant Technology Ready for 2021?

Join Netsurion’s Mark Cline, senior vice present, and guest panelists, for a casual conversation about what lessons from 2020 every restaurant brand must learn…

Your Pie, InMoment partner to elevate customer experience

December 10, 2020

Your Pie said it has partnered with customer experience improvement company, InMoment, to put that key operating component "at the forefront" of the pizza…

NRA to Congress: 'Restaurants in economic free fall'

December 7, 2020

In a letter to congressional leadership, the National Restaurant Association said Monday that the restaurant industry is in an "economic free fall" and…

HungerRush acquires OrdrAI’s AI-driven text message ordering solution

December 4, 2020

HungerRush has acquired OrdrAI, a text and voice ordering provider for the restaurant industry, giving HungerRush Restaurant Management System the ability to…

Squisito Pizza and Pasta names managing partner

December 3, 2020

Squisito's parent company, Monte Restaurant Development Group, has named restaurant developer, Todd Kosakowski. as managing partner and franchisee. In his…

HotSchedules launches global brand Fourth

December 2, 2020

HotSchedules, a technology and services provider for the hospitality and restaurant industries, is now operating under a unified global brand called Fourth and…

Pandemic triggering $95B revenue loss in European restaurant sector

December 2, 2020

After the COVID-19 lockdown in the first months of 2020, restaurants around the world began reopening in the second half of the year, but that's changed the…

LA banning outdoor dining

November 24, 2020

Los Angeles County, which is home to over 10 million people, is banning outdoor dining for at least three weeks as a way to protect people from spreading…

California Pizza Kitchen emerges from Chapter 11

November 24, 2020

California Pizza Kitchen has completed its financial restructuring process and emerged from Chapter 11, with a strong position for "long-term growth,…

Donatos Pizza expanding with a little help from Red Robin

November 20, 2020

Two years ago, Donatos Pizza and Red Robin quietly began testing a combination of the two concepts with a scaled-down Donatos pizza menu alongside Red Robin's…

GoTab offering contactless capabilities

November 19, 2020

GoTab, a restaurant commerce platform, is offering free activations and 24-hour guaranteed setup to companies wanting to add contactless options, including…

Fast casual leaders talk food safety in the world of COVID-19

by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com

Food safety has always been top of mind for every restaurant, but is now even further a priority given the COVID-19 pandemic. Three fast casual brand leaders…

ToastGo2 contactless product suite keeps guests safe, restaurants efficient

November 18, 2020

Toast, a restaurant management platform, is launchingToastGo2, a mobile handheld point-of-sale that works with the Toast Order & Pay platform to facilitate…

5 ways pizza brands can build sales in a pandemic winter

by Lydia Fayal — Head of Grwoth, Workstream

Pizza brands, particularly those in northern climes, face a cold pandemic-ridden winter that threatens to limit the dine-in business they built this summer…