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How Convenience Stores Threaten Fast-Food Restaurants

Competition for foodservice occasions is heating up.

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How to Profit From Knowing Your Menu Complexity Scores

The No. 1 aim? Increased profitability.

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Playing to Win in Today's Restaurant Environment

Introducing the "Triple Play" of simplification, pricing, and communic

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The Power of Customer Zone Merchandising for Restaurants

How to develop path-to-purchase communications strategies.

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Why To-Go Packaging is the New Dinnerware

To-go packaging today must deliver a convenient experience.

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Menu Optimization: Hit Pay Dirt with TURF

Now might be a good time to give your menu another once-over.

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Will Your Drive-Thru Pass the 'Blindfold Test?'

Can restaurants break through in a "sea of sameness."

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Menu Reengineering: A Vital Strategy to Achieve Optimization

Follow these steps to build a powerful menu.

Menuboard inside a restaurant.

Grow Your Restaurant by Establishing a Winning Menu Strategy

A high-level team approach is important, especially these days.

Shake Shack curbside rendering.

Curbside: Take the Lead, or Get Left in the Dust

This is one COVID-19 innovation for restaurants that's not going anywhere.

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Profit-Driving Tips to Beat Pandemic Times

It's the key to survival.

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The Opportunity of Innovative Pandemic Packaging

IPP is a way for restaurant brands to stay connected and generate positive brand awareness.

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How Can Restaurants Solve Traffic Woes in 2020?

It's time to get back to some of the basics.

Noodles & Company's zucchini noodles.

The Story Behind Noodles & Company's Menuboard Makeover

The change was a dramatic step forward for the fast casual.