Starbucks

Starbucks promises a chainwide pay raise

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 11, 2016

The increases will come this fall.

The other sales boosters up Starbucks' cup sleeve

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 08, 2016

The emphasis will be on selling more super-premium coffee and food.

Food

4 intriguing menu ideas from Japan

By Aaron Jourden on Apr. 05, 2017

New offerings range from the interesting and stealable, to the out there and way out there.

Operations

This week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Unsolved mysteries

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 10, 2017

Given the mystifying developments that arose, you’d have thought restaurants were holding their own Agatha Christie Week.

This week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Starbucks experiments

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 15, 2018

The folks in green aprons are changing roles in what the company calls Deployment 2.0, and that's just one of the developments that turned heads in the restaurant industry this week.

June 2008 menus

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 15, 2008

Check out menus from restaurants featured in the June issue of Restaurant Business magazine.

Financing

Conscious Capitalists share their smarts

By Patricia Cobe on May 01, 2012

Six top business leaders describe how to create and sustain companies with purpose.

Technology

An advance peek at Panera’s new ordering system

Apr. 21, 2014

An early user tries the Panera 2.0 mobile set-up, which enables customers to order up to five days in advance or bypass the cashiers to order and pay from their tables.

The early word on Apple Pay, Apple’s new e-wallet

By Kelly Killian on Sep. 10, 2014

Apple announced something that could be a game changer for the restaurant industry and retailers: Apple Pay. “The vision is to replace the wallet. And the starting point is payments,” says Apple CEO Tim Cook.

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