This Juneteenth, many cities around the United States are holding events to boost local Black-owned restaurants. After all, while interest in Black-owned restaurants spiked in June 2020 amid the George Floyd protests, Google Trends shows, it has fallen dramatically since. Additionally, Black business owners tend...
There’s no scarcity of speculation about the fortunes of the mobile order-ahead (MOA) sector as masks come off and restrictions vanish. Turning instead to hard data, PYMNTS researchers find it’s superconnected consumers that MOA-reliant restaurants can count on going forward. Get the Full Story Complete...
Restaurant management startup SpotOn is integrating Order with Google to help its restaurant clients streamline the online ordering process. The integration will give customers the ability to order directly through Google Search and Maps using SpotOn Order. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
Loyalty holdout Popeyes may have showed up late to the digital rewards party, but it brought wings. On Thursday (June 17), the company announced the launch of Popeyes Rewards, a loyalty program integrated with its desktop website and mobile app ordering channels that rewards purchases...
It has now been 15 months since restaurants across the United States were forced to close temporarily for the good of public health and safety, and their customers are slowly starting to return. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
The automated drive-thru competition is heating up. McDonald’s recently revealed that it is trying out automated order-taking technologies at 10 drive-thru restaurants in Chicago. Customers will dictate their orders to the drive-thru’s computer, which will interpret the voice order via artificial intelligence (AI). The technology...
Food prices are up, leaving restaurants, still struggling to recover from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, in what has become the latest pandemic-era business challenge. While the math may seem fairly intuitive — if the price a restaurant pays for its food is...
Restaurants are beginning to recover from the devastating events of the past 15 months, but the road is rocky. As the public sector aims to revitalize the restaurant industry with federal funds, the private sector is making its own efforts to help these struggling businesses....
The meme traders are back, and this time they are going for “Wendys [sic] Chicken Tendies.” Wendy’s stock prices jumped up about 26 percent on Tuesday (June 8) after a post on the subreddit r/WallStreetBets argued on behalf of the stock. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...