Restaurant Retail news and trends

Groupon Sells Breadcrumb POS Business
Point of Sale // May 10, 2016

Groupon has served up its own restaurant point-of-sale business to another company. The restaurant technology startup Upserve (formerly Swipely) announced yesterday (May 9) that it has acquired Breadcrumb, the POS business that Groupon picked up in 2012. In exchange, Groupon is receiving — rather than...

Queen Bey Anoints A Seafood Restaurant Chain
Retail // February 19, 2016

Consumers had a lot of strong feelings about Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime performance, but one (unlikely) company that’s definitely in the “pro” column is Red Lobster. With the seafood restaurant chain’s sales having leaped 33 percent due to a mere mention in Queen Bey’s “Formation,”...

Wendy’s Investigates Possible Credit Card Breach
Retail // January 28, 2016

Recent happenings at America’s third-largest burger chain are not very tasty. Yesterday (Jan. 27), Krebs on Security — having heard from banking industry sources that a pattern of fraud had been discovered on cards that were all recently used at various Wendy’s locations — reported that it...

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Reserve For Restaurants Takes On OpenTable

May 11, 2016
The restaurant reservation app Reserve is expanding its offerings to include the other side of the table. In a blog post yesterday (May 10) written by Reserve Cofounder and CEO Greg Hong, the company announced the launch of Reserve for Restaurants, a table management system that — as TechCrunch notes — appears similar to a […]

Groupon Sells Breadcrumb POS Business

May 10, 2016
Groupon has served up its own restaurant point-of-sale business to another company. The restaurant technology startup Upserve (formerly Swipely) announced yesterday (May 9) that it has acquired Breadcrumb, the POS...

Wendy’s Investigates Possible Credit Card Breach

January 28, 2016
Recent happenings at America’s third-largest burger chain are not very tasty. Yesterday (Jan. 27), Krebs on Security — having heard from banking industry sources that a pattern of fraud had been...