technology

Menu it digitally

By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 01, 2012

Digital menu boards provide virtually limitless opportunities for merchandising menu items. Additions or revisions—to accommodate nutritional postings or price changes—can be made quickly. And for multi-unit operations, centralized control of the menu is especially important.

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How Founding Farmers uses latest industry technology to implement LEED standards

By Joann Whitcher on Sep. 11, 2012

The phrase Founding Farmers may conjure up images of colonial America, but the restaurants operating under that name are anything but old-fashioned. One of the tenets of the Farmers Restaurant Group is using the latest technology available to carry out its mission of “operating, serving and living green.”

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Kitchen equipment trends

By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 01, 2013

Attendees at this month’s NAFEM Show in Orlando will be confronted with the usual mind-boggling array of equipment, everything from mammoth, industrial-strength dishwashers down to pocket-sized meat thermometers. The single unifying factor—maximized performance that justifies the expense of new equipment.

Untold stories from the NRA show

By Peter Romeo on May 21, 2013

Zipping around the industry’s annual Woodstock, you may have missed a few developments that added color to this year’s gathering. While feeling is returning to your feet, here’s your chance to catch some of the unsung moments from the National Restaurant Association’s annual convention.

Worker centers spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 01, 2013

At a tech conference, you expect acronyms to drop like F-bombs at a Sopranos barbecue. POS, PCI, CMS—the presentations were an effing alphabet soup. But one all-caps tag was usually implied rather than said outright, even though it figured into considerable conversation at FSTEC.

Post-NRA Show attitude adjustments

By Peter Romeo on May 20, 2014

If colleagues attended the NRA Show and you didn’t, grant them some deep-thought time. They’re likely grappling with new necessities that mandate changes in their attitudes and ways of doing business. You may want to sit at their feet and get a download, Grasshopper.

The future is now—yikes!

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 12, 2014

We apologize in advance if this issue raises your dry-cleaning bill. The risk of spitting out coffee is definitely at Wet-Nap Four, and not because of surprises plumbed from the gee-wiz file.

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