Toast launches tech to help streamline kitchen, FOH ops

May 3, 2018

Toast has unveiled Toast Go, a fully integrated point-of-sale, handheld device custom-built for restaurants, according to a press release. Toast Go combines…

Veteran restaurateur helps bring pizza truck kiosk to reality

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Pizza truck entrepreneur Bob Stephens reasoned that self-serve kiosks make sense for food trucks, but he had difficulty finding one. He managed to find a…

Boston Pizza to deploy ConnectSmart Kitchen and DineTime platforms from QSR Automation

May 2, 2018

Boston Pizza, Canada's largest casual dining restaurant chain, has decided to upgrade back-of-house and front-of-house technology with ConnectSmart Kitchen and…

Domino's puts AI on the phone

April 23, 2018

Phone orders and breaking-edge technology aren't often used in the same sentence these days, but that is exactly where Domino's is putting its latest…

Large-scale corporate catering comes to Caviar with Zesty acquisition

April 20, 2018

Caviar food ordering platform's parent company, Square Inc., has acquired certain assets of another company-centered catering platform called Zesty. The…

Sub Station II, Chicken Salad Chick, Pizza Inn franchisees: Tech buy-in demands time, trust

by Bradley Cooper — Editor, ATM Marketplace & Food Truck Operator

Franchisors who want franchisees to invest in tech tools, like mobile ordering and menu boards, would do well to remember that it pays to put yourself in their…

[LIVE WEBINAR] How Self-Order Kiosks Improve Restaurant Operations & Bottom Line

April 10, 2018

McDonald's found that average check sizes grow $1 when customers order through kiosks, and 20 percent more customers order drinks. These are just two of the…

Free webinar: Sonny's BBQ CIO will give inside look behind brand's switch to cloud-based POS

April 5, 2018

Switching to a cloud-based POS system helped Sonny's BBQ streamline operations and boost customer engagement, a story that Sonny's CIO Joe Tenczar will share…

Lessons learned about restaurant delivery from another kind of 'delivery experience'

by Noah Glass — CEO, Olo

The restaurant industry is in the midst of a massive $200 billion shift to digital that has become an business imperative for all players who truly want to…

The perks for pizza operators in intelligent checklists

The pizza operator's indispensable checklist gets intelligent and brings big perks along for the ride.

SlabbKiosks expands its production capabilities

SlabbKiosks will continue growing its kiosk production capabilities at a newly leased 12,065 square foot facility in Mesa, Arizona.

LevelUp teams with FullContact to improve customer segmentation

March 13, 2018

LevelUp has partnered with FullContact, an identity resolution provider, to power precision marketing programs by providing foodservice operators with a…

Menufy partners with LevelUp to build restaurants' mobile reach

February 6, 2018

Online ordering provider, Menufy, has partnered with LevelUp to extend its restaurant clients' distribution channels and hopefully orders, without added cost.

3 big pizza trends bring bigger pizza kitchen concerns

By Charlie Lewis Culinary Supply Chain Specialist/Consolidated Concepts    The rate of change in foodservice has always been swift, but technology is…

Restaurant tech: What pizza operators need now to woo today's customers

by Christopher Sebes — president, Heartland Commerce

Your customers are a bit like very engaged parents: They have expectations. That is particularly true today when it comes to the tech your brand offers to stay…

Points to ponder before 'playing around' with pizza payment

by Andre Stoorvogel — Head of Marketing, Bell ID

The payment landscape is changing rapidly and these three areas will help you prepare.

11 ways to implement predictive scheduling without killing your bottom line

by Cherryh Cansler — Editor, FastCasual.com

Not complying with predictive scheduling mandates can quickly add up to significant penalties.

NYC all-digital pizzeria does all-online ordering, all the time

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

Newly opened Long Island City Pizza Factory is planting a flag, claiming it is the world's first "full-digital pizzeria," an accomplishment its owners hope…

7 ways tech can ease managers' employee management efforts

Some forward-thinking brands are already using comprehensive workforce management solutions to automate time-consuming, error-prone efforts related to time and…

Restaurateurs will see 'immense operational changes' in 2018

January 12, 2018

Operations platform, Fourth, sees what it calls "immense operational changes" happening across the restaurant industry as tech of all kinds is deployed…