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Technology

Tender Greens goes cashless

Another fast-casual chain cuts the greenbacks for efficiency.

Second-hand learning

There never seems to be enough time in the day. The dynamics of foodservice are accelerating. It's impossible to keep up with all the changes in the competition, training methods, technology, inventory, pricing, and customer needs...

While the cooling fundamentals haven’t changed much in refrigeration equipment, the units have evolved in size, form and function to protect food at every stage.

Many diners now opt for a single, all-encompassing eating and entertainment experience in one locale. And bars and restaurants are stepping up to the plate, equipping their spaces with sophisticated, hi-tech entertainment systems.

Great ideas we've seen from the restaurant industry.

HR, marketing, you name it, there are new Web tools for any operation. Here’s how to streamline your business online.

Although chicken and turkey costs are trending slightly upward, they are still better buys than red meat.

First came flimsy paper punch cards. Then came credit card-style loyalty cards that got lost in customers’ wallets. Now, a new set of apps and services are taking loyalty and rewards high tech with restaurants getting the added benefit of tracking customer data.

Some of the earliest TV infomercials featured Ron Popeil hawking his famous Veg-o-Matic food chopper with the memorable catchphrase, “It slices! It dices!” Certainly, today’s heavy-duty, high-performance commercial food processors bear little resemblance to that prehistoric appliance—they can do so much more than just slicing and dicing.

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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