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Qarrot Performance Launches Employee Incentive Software Solution

Qarrot Performance announced the launch of its new, free employee incentive software solution for independent businesses, retailers, and quick service restaurant operators. Qarrot’s Free Starter Account is cloud-based and available to businesses located in the United States and Canada. Aimed at helping business owners and their managers motivate and reward front-line employees for improved performance, […]

You Can Now Fully Order Domino’s on Facebook

Domino’s Pizza has its game face on and is bringing even more robust ordering capabilities to Facebook Messenger. Customers can now place any order for any menu item they’d like on Messenger, just in time for February 5—one of Domino’s busiest delivery days of the year. Domino’s is the first national pizza chain to have […]

You Can Now Fully Order Domino’s on Facebook

Domino’s Pizza has its game face on and is bringing even more robust ordering capabilities to Facebook Messenger. Customers can now place any order for any menu item they’d like on Messenger, just in time for February 5—one of Domino’s busiest delivery days of the year. Domino’s is the first national pizza chain to have […]

King-Casey and Envirosell Create ‘MenuBoard PRO’

Two well-known restaurant and retail brand consultancies—King-Casey and Envirosell—have joined forces to create “MenuBoard PRO,” an innovative process that uses proven research methodologies to re-engineer menuboard strategies and designs to achieve tangible business results. Specifically, it offers research, consulting and design services to optimize the customer experience around menuboard issues. King-Casey principal Tom Cook says: […]

Chipotle Launches Online Guacamole Game

Chipotle Mexican Grill, in partnership with Avocados From Mexico, announced a new online game called ‘Cado Crusher, where users have three rounds to smash and combine ingredients to make their own version of Chipotle’s delicious guacamole. Players are rewarded with a mobile offer good for a free order of chips and guacamole, with purchase of […]

Download Shake Shack’s New App, Get a Free Burger

Shake Shack announced the first mobile ordering Shack App for iOS is now available nationwide. To celebrate the occasion, Shake Shack is giving away a free single ShackBurger to each guest who downloads the new Shack App, redeemable at any U.S. Shack (except airports, stadiums, and ballparks) until February 28. To get a free ShackBurger, […]

Introducing The Restaurant Stack: 2017 Best Tech Solutions

On January 17, a consortium of 15 best in breed restaurant industry technology companies released The 2017 Restaurant Stack, a deeply researched compilation of the best tech solutions available for food and beverage professionals this year. The 2017 “Stack” focuses especially on technologies and strategies that are easy-to-use, affordable, and turn-key solutions to serious productivity […]

Jersey Mike’s Offers Discount on Online Orders

Jersey Mike’s Subs is rolling out a new online promotion that encourages customers to go to the head of the line by placing their order in advance through the company’s mobile app or website.  In addition to saving time, customers will receive 50 percent off their first online order when they create an account and place their […]

Panasonic Unveils New Toughbook Products

Panasonic, a leader in mobility innovation, introduced two new innovations to its Toughbook product family: FZ-Q2 Semi-Rugged 2-in-1 Windows Toughpad Tablet: With a standard full-sized keyboard and built-in protection, the FZ-Q2 is equipped with the latest 6th Generation Intel Core m5 vPro processor for advanced performance with a flexible form factor, making it ideal for […]

Voice-Activated Amazon Alexa Ordering Available at Wingstop

Wingstop, Inc., the award-winning wing concept with more than 900 locations worldwide, is now offering voice-activated ordering with menu item customization through Amazon Alexa. Starting Tuesday, wing fans can now feed their craving for flavor by speaking simple command prompts that will activate Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, Alexa, to place a new order, re-order from […]

Cava Grill Launches New App

CAVA, the rapidly expanding fast casual Mediterranean restaurant brand, announced the launch of its new app as the latest step in their use of technology to create personalized experiences for their customers. The app will allow customers to order ahead and reorder meals with just a few taps, pay ahead of time, pick up quickly, […]

DTT to Partner with Sarku Japan

DTT announced an exciting partnership development with Sarku Japan, one of the largest Japanese quick-service operators in the United States. At the close of 2016, the brand signed a five-year renewal agreement with DTT, confirming an extension of the relationship until 2022 and giving Sarku Decade Partner status. The relationship between the two companies initially […]

BlueCart’s New Inventory Management Technology

BlueCart, the restaurant technology company whose namesake app streamlines communication between buyers and suppliers in the hospitality industry, announced the release of a new Inventory Management tool that allows workers and managers in the restaurant industry to take, share, analyze, and react to supply-level data in real time, using just their smartphones. Working within BlueCart’s […]

Papa Murphy’s Boosts Engagement with Campaign

Bridg, a software company that leverages big data to drive precision marketing campaigns for restaurant brands, announced Wednesday that it has helped take ‘n’ bake pizza chain Papa Murphy’s achieve renewed customer engagement through its latest digital marketing campaign. Through its collaboration with Bridg, Papa Murphy’s delivered highly personalized marketing communications to specific customers via […]

Snagajob Launches New Platform

Snagajob announced that it has launched PeopleMatter FIND, integrating the largest marketplace for hourly work with the industry’s top workforce solution for employers. The new product will help service-industry employers expand the visibility of their job postings to a more targeted labor pool. Following the initial launch of PeopleMatter FIND, the amount of total applications […]

FUSIAN Launches New App, Online Ordering

FUSIAN, an Ohio-based create your own sushi restaurant, announced that it has partnered with Olo and LevelUp to integrate online ordering, mobile payment, and the new FUSIAN Rewards program into one streamlined mobile app for customers. Olo and LevelUp, both market leaders in their respective areas of focus, bring unique functionality to the FUSIAN app […]

Google Home Ordering Now Available for Domino’s

Domino’s Pizza, the recognized world leader in pizza delivery and digital ordering platforms, continues to be on the cutting edge of digital ordering innovations with the launch of ordering on Google Home. Google Home is the fifth platform added to Domino’s lineup of AnyWare ordering capabilities this year. “We’re proud to once again be the […]

Delphi Display Systems Relocating in January

Delphi Display Systems, Inc., a global leader in consumer engagement and business optimization technology solutions for the food service industry, announced that in January of 2017 it will be relocating its corporate offices from its current location at 3160 Pullman Street to the technology-centric Harbor Gateway Business Center in Costa Mesa, California, a property owned […]

Del Taco Testing Mobile App in Sacramento

Del Taco Restaurants, Inc. announced the test on its mobile app developed by the brand’s online ordering partner, Olo. Although the free app is currently available for download by iOS and Android users nationwide, the app’s full functionality will be limited to the Sacramento test market. Mobile app users will have the power to submit, […]

Food Logistics Names FoodLogiQ to List

Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, named FoodLogiQ, the leading SaaS provider of food safety compliance, traceability, and supply chain transparency software solutions, to its 2016 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers list. The FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers list serves […]

Alexa Voice Service Can Now Order Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut is expanding its ordering capabilities to include Alexa Voice Service on Amazon Echo, Amazon Tap, Echo Dot, Amazon Fire TV, and Fire tablets. With a simple phrase, and not a single phone or laptop lifted, Pizza Hut’s new skill brings ease and convenience to the ordering experience for pizza-loving homes across the country. […]

Roy Rogers Launches Loyalty App at Corporate Locations

Roy Rogers Restaurants announced the launch of its loyalty app, Roy’s Rewards. The app launches at its 24 corporate-owned locations Friday with an expansion into participating franchise locations by first quarter 2017. Roy’s Rewards, available for download in the Apple App Store and the Google Play store as well as online, features the full Roy […]