Check out what your customers are using to “check in.”Location-based social media, led by the buzz-generating platform Foursquare and the Gowalla application for Android-powered smart phones, as well as Urban Spoon and Twiddish, are “definitely...

Restaurant owners worried that they can’t keep up with the proliferation of new location-based social-media platforms need not despair. Those applications are set up to complement restaurants’ current social-media and digital-marketing efforts...

During what’s become a three-year segmentwide sales slump, casual-dining operators have tried just about everything to spur sales, from discounts and bundled meals to two-for-ones and freebies. To keep the lights on, many also have cut operational...

When asked what tools restaurant companies should be looking at over the next 12 months, a panel of technology executives on Tuesday all pointed the same direction: those that touch consumers...

Nation’s Restaurant News publisher Randall Friedman announced Monday at the 15th annual Foodservice Technology Conference and Showcase that FSTEC would be co-located with the Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators conference, or MUFSO, beginning...

CARPINTERIA Calif. In a case of tasty unintended consequences, CKE Restaurants Inc. said it would extend its combined comfort food creations to Hardee’s with the introduction of the Grilled Cheese Bacon Thickburger, the complement of the Grilled...

As more than 700 foodservice executives began to gather for FSTEC, the Foodservice Technology Conference & Showcase, restaurant operators and academics started a debate on the opportunities, challenges and future of social media tools and...