A payment platform just for pizzerias? Slice, a company that provides technology solutions for independent pizza restaurants, announced on Monday (June 28) the addition of new features to its Slice Register point of sale (POS) system, among which are Slice Payments and Slice Delivery Management,...
There comes a point for many small and midsize restaurant chains when the knowledge of local tastes that drove their initial success can no longer be their guidepost as they grow into new markets. After all, the needs and desires of consumers in one’s hometown...
What do you do if you are a chicken wing restaurant during a wing shortage? Apparently, you pick another part of the chicken. At least, that is what chicken wing brand Wingstop is doing — the chain announced on Monday (June 21) that it is...
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...
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...
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...
Even the price of burritos has to keep up with the needs of the time, it seems. That’s the reality as this week comes to a close, and the news of Chipotle’s price increases has started making the rounds. Get the Full Story Complete the...
