Peter Romeo
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Peter Romeo
Page 368The week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Ebola fears & other signs of the times
With 24/7 coverage of the first U.S. cases, investors are asking restaurants if there’s already a sales fallout because of decreased travel. But the public’s ignorance about the disease appears to be more of an issue.
3 things chains can learn from independents
The operators of independent restaurants enjoy a latitude and authority their counterparts on the chain side couldn’t imagine exercising. But maybe they should.
If there were any lingering doubts that technology is pushing beyond the IT department to reshape every discipline represented in a corporate headquarters, they were laid to rest at FSTec, once an industry conference for restaurant CIOs. At this year’s event, you were as likely to hear a question posed by a marketing, HR or ops specialist as you were to catch two tech heads speaking in their tribe’s peculiar code.