Marco's celebrates app's early success with customer discount

February 25, 2020

Marco's Pizza is sharing a marketing milestone with its customers by commemorating the brand's millionth mobile app download in less than a year since the…

Challenges Facing Restaurants in 2020

Restaurants are up against more than ever. While margins are as thin as always, labor, food, regulations and competition continue to rise. But restaurants also…

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Buy or Build: A Guide to Avoiding Frankenware

By covering the differences between companies who build through acquisition vs as a holistic product, readers will learn the pros and cons of each, how to spot…

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400+ UK Pizza Huts deploy AI-powered analytics

February 18, 2020

More than 400 Pizza Hut delivery units in the U.K. are now using Manthan, an AI-powered analytics company, to gain better insights into operations and traffic…

Domino's rolls out Pie Pass to expedite carryout orders

February 17, 2020

Domino's is rolling out a new tech that lets carryout customers who order and pay online immediately grab their orders in stores without having to wait in…

Toast lands $400M in funding

February 14, 2020

Toast, a restaurant management platform in the U.S., today has raised $400 million in its latest round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, TPG…

Choosing the Right POS: Seven Key Questions to Ask

A point of sale (POS) system is a key piece of technology in the successful operation of a fast casual business. While POS solutions have existed for decades…

Leveraging technology to manage restaurant labor costs

Labor can make or break a restaurant, being the one variable that exists in all facets of a restaurant’s core functionality and a top concern among managers…

Networld Media Group acquires Vending Times, names Elliot Maras editor

February 4, 2020

Networld Media Group, the parent company of Digital Signage Today and sister sites, has acquired The Vending Times, a media publisher in the self-service…

How self-service ordering kiosks are transforming QSRs

While the QSR experience is typically quite simple, the introduction of more advanced technology -- namely self-service food ordering kiosks -- over the course…

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How AI can revolutionize your restaurant

by Adam Ross — General Manager, Americas, Deputy

Like any other industry, restaurants are under relentless pressure to satisfy the soaring expectations of consumers, who are keen on more personalization and…

Ole Miss goes new tech with fast-food robots

January 23, 2020

The University of Mississippi, or Ole Miss, has gotten decidedly new tech with the launch of the northern Mississippi school's first fast food and…

What pizza operators can learn from Domino's use of AI

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

Tuesday, Pizza Marketplace told you about Domino's use of AI to boost the customer experience. Today, we break down what restaurateurs can take away from the…

Domino's digs into GPUs' data-churning mega-muscle to transform customer experience

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

Domino's has discovered a virtual goldmine in the data-handling computer power of a resource once confined to the picture-heavy needs of video gaming — the GPU.

Self-order kiosks are on a roll in U.S. restaurants

It’s no secret – self-order kiosks are on a roll in the U.S., which is catching up to Europe, where they are already commonplace. The reasons are multi-fold.

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California Pizza Kitchen stores tap into customer intelligence platform

January 13, 2020

California Pizza Kitchen has tapped restaurant intelligence platform, Yumpingo, to bring real-time guest insights to the 240-plus unit brand, according to a…

Grubhub addresses phone order snafu

January 9, 2020

Grubhub customers will be hearing a new prompt when placing a call to a restaurant using the ordering app, which will direct them to press the No. 1 to place…

Pizza robot startup, Zume, reportedly laying off most of its workforce

January 7, 2020

SoftBank-backed robotic pizza startup, Zume, plans to lay off up to 400 employees — 80% of its staff— and won't renew its Seattle lease in an effort to stop…

Blendid installs its second robotic smoothie kiosk

December 31, 2019

Robotic self-serve smoothie kiosk-maker, Blendid, has  installed its second location, this one at Sonoma State University's Charlie Brown Café earlier this…

Real-time restaurant course correction big benefit of integrated POS/ops management system

December 26, 2019

Appetize and Restaurant365 have partnered to provide a merged cloud-based POS and operations management platform to restaurant brands that allows operators to…