Content about Internet

February 21, 2012
Chili's offers 'Kids Eat Free' e-mail promotion
Chain promotes offer through social media
November 22, 2010
Companies target influential bloggers to promote product rollouts
The buzz-makers increasingly targeted by restaurant publicists these days are the citizen-journalists who specialize in word of mouth.

November 12, 2010
Bravo Brio on its move to offer free Wi-Fi
New service aimed at building up other dayparts and banquet business
November 8, 2010
The digitized revolution
Individual websites are the stand-alone stores, and Facebook is the mall
November 8, 2009
Parasole: Political correctness not mandatory for indies’ marketing plan
In the dog-eat-dog restaurant world, there seems to be little that serial “restrepreneur” Phil Roberts...
March 12, 2009
Report: Social networking grows but still challenges advertisers
Internet social networks – increasingly on the radar of restaurant marketing pros – are seeing...
November 16, 2008
Study: Online recruiting should diversify, not replace, traditional hiring
Looking to deflate a high turnover rate among hourly employees, the 53-unit Good Times Burgers...
September 24, 2008
Beverage specialist CB&TL deploys Wi-Fi for patrons
LOS ANGELES The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, based here, said some team members have...
September 21, 2008
Beware, marketers: Shiny, new technology has a pesky way of developing rust spots as it ages
Back in the Dark Ages—by that I mean the 1980s—marketers were agog over the potential...
September 7, 2008
Browser-based applications versus small-footprint software
Back-office software packages that fully or significantly leverage the Internet tend to fall into two...
July 20, 2008
Web-based programs take the pain out of shift scheduling
When server Anne Lettieri needs to know the weekly schedule for her shifts at The...
July 20, 2008
Web-based programs take the pain out of shift scheduling
When server Anne Lettieri needs to know the weekly schedule for her shifts at The...
May 18, 2008
Restaurant players address younger employees’ online habits via interactive crew-only websites
Taking a cue from social-network sites such as Facebook.com and MySpace.com, restaurant companies nationwide—worldwide, in...
February 3, 2008
McD’s flat Dec. sales, dip in traffic raise recession fears
McDonald’s Corp.’s disclosure last week of flat December same-store sales ended its string of positive...
November 26, 2007
What's new within the 'NAFEM Data Protocol' movement
Operator interest in the seemingly arcane world of technology protocols often is tied to their...
October 7, 2007
Operators, customers demand mobile technology
Cell phones and personal digital assistants, or PDAs, are in use everywhere, and foodservice operators...
April 29, 2007
RLC speakers tackle issues of immigration, innovation
Operators at the Restaurant Leadership Conference here this month addressed issues ranging from effective methods...
March 26, 2007
Bruegger's deals with MegaPath for networking services
BURLINGTON Vt. Bruegger's Bagel Bakery chain operator and franchisor Bruegger's Enterprises based here said it...
March 26, 2007
Starbucks offers mobile device users location-finding service
SEATTLE Starbucks Coffee, based here, is offering a store-locator service in North America for users...
February 27, 2007
Miami Management using Exit41 call center tech
CINCINNATI Sixteen-unit Wendy's franchisee Miami Management Co. Inc. based here is rolling out to all...
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