Archive for the ‘Innovations’ Category
Optimization is key to Firehouse Subs’ success
This blog series is brought to you by the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA), the leading trade association for the foodservice industry. This series will focus on ways to optimize across the entire supply channel and bring consumers back to foodservice. Foodservice industry leaders are keeping optimization top of mind now more than ever, with [...]
P&G Professional executive: Innovation comes in many forms
This blog series is brought to you by the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA), the leading trade association for the foodservice industry. This series will focus on ways to optimize across the entire supply channel and bring consumers back to foodservice. Innovative product ideas can come from anywhere, from the employees who make a product [...]
Fancy salt, a hungry burglar and foodie trivia through the years
This week’s offbeat food stories include tales of restaurants that took a hit and came up swinging. One eatery is suing online directory Dex Media because of a derogatory listing, while a New York City coffee shop plans to go nowhere, despite the fact that Starbucks is taking over its digs. Salt is salt. Or [...]
When other restaurant concepts come too close for comfort
Have you ever walked into a restaurant and immediately felt déjà vu? Lawyers for burger chain In-N-Out got that feeling recently when they noticed strong similarities between the look, feel and menu styling of their client’s establishments and Aberdeen, Md.-based Grab-N-Go. Eater and Huffington Post both reported on the lawsuit that In-N-Out’s lawyers filed against [...]
Franchise Spotlight: Domino’s transparency trickles down to the local franchisee
This blog series is brought to you by FohBoh Inc., the cutting-edge social Web technology company for the $1.2 trillion foodservice industry. This series will focus on the social media side of Franchise Appreciation Day, featuring thought leaders from Domino’s, KFC and California Tortilla. How do you get your franchisees on board with your chain’s [...]
Q-and-A: How Taco Bell uses social media for recruitment, internal communication
Avery Block, social engagement and brand champion for Taco Bell, has 15 years of operations and human resources experience. She has previously worked for Claim Jumper Restaurants and has served as an industry panelist on a variety of topics. I interviewed her about how Taco Bell HR is using social media to find employees and [...]
Food trucks start to flourish in the Midwest
Food trucks are wildly popular in markets along the East and West coasts, and now they’re making their way into the country’s heartland, tweaking the cuisine to add regional flavors and new touches and sometimes running into the same roadblocks as their coastal peers. Chicago mobile eateries are on the move, despite a city ordinance [...]
Fair fare, vegan jail food and marijuana munchies
It’s a short week at Restaurant SmartBrief, but there’s been no shortage of odd, offbeat and downright quirky food stories to share, starting with the annual look at unusual fair fare, which seems to get a bit wackier each year. Also on tap: a U.K. café that built a mini-museum with scraps left from celebrity [...]
The appeal of nontraditional restaurant space
Restaurant chains are taking a growing interest in nontraditional locations, which are less costly to launch than traditional storefront restaurants and boast a high number of potential patrons regularly, including airports, corporate campuses, hospitals and, of course, college campuses. Subway, an early adopter of nontraditional space, credits the strategy for helping to build the sandwich [...]
The art of service
Does good service start with your servers writing everything down? Some guests told the New York Post this week that pencils and pads in the hands of a waiter can go a long way toward calming the nerves that start to fray when patrons fear their food will come out wrong. Despite that, many of [...]
