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Two frozen dessert chains made moves with new marketing promotions this summer. TCBY launched a new frozen yogurt truck platform in Charlotte, N.C. The company says the truck model is part of a new strategic expansion plan. Cold Stone Creamery will offer
Social networking for foodservice: deconstructed, informed, inspired.
BOSTON ─ "Everyone should have a dream, have an end-fulfilling goal in mind for their lives," says Rick Zambrano, managing publisher for Kandessa Media. With that, the manager of the Boston-based publisher, whose brands Quick Serve Leader, Eatery Pulse Magazine, and SYESTO bring highly relevant content and business intelligence to the industry, turns to a new chapter in his foodservice career.
Sarku Japan, one of the largest Asian-style QSR chains in the country, recently opened its third store in New Jersey, as part of a new focus on growth in the Northeast Corridor. After having invested in training seminars in Washington, D.C., and New York, the Ontario-based chain is accelerating its expansion plans.
Its fairly recent focus on storefront concept stores aims to leverage the millions of customers
Foodservice advertisers to win big in three-year anniversary
BOSTON ─ Kandessa Media, a company founded by a restaurant professional, for restaurant professionals, to inform and inspire industry peers with inside-the-industry news and insights, celebrates its third birthday on June 2, 2012.
Social media and web engagement is still very low among independents. This was one of several findings of a new study performed by Restaurant Sciences of Newton, Mass. The RIMS (Restaurant Science's Internet Marketing Study) shows that among several facets of web marketing and engagement, independents and full-service locations scored significantly low.
Smashburger expanded its menu May 7 with a limited-time offer Wedge Club Burger and Wedge Club Chicken Sandwich. Available nationally, the sandwiches will be offfered through June 4.
Jack in the Box expanded its Value Menu at its restaurants. Through its new Value Deal, it has added all-white-meat Chicken Nuggets, and three other value menu items.
Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt will be one of the chains benefitting from the current appeal of self-serve frozen yogurt. The chain has 149 locations in the United States. In New England, it has more than a dozen planned
Tablets are increasingly finding their way into restaurants, hotels and other retail establishments. One local shop in Boston, Tasty Burger, signed on with ISISPOS for POS-integrated tablet devices to take orders and speed up service at the compact sit-down restaurant and adjacent take-out trailer near Boston's historic baseball landmark, Fenway Park.
As we saw last year, the proliferation of these devices depends not so much
The industry's choice for informed, inspired restaurant news and insights
BOSTON ─ Kandessa Media, publisher of foodservice publications Eatery Pulse Magazine and Quick Serve Leader, reported that it plans to move to a fee-based subscription model on June 11, 2012.
Friendly's Ice Cream is making some big changes. The operator of the namesake Friendly's Ice Cream restaurant chain, and the fast casual Friendly's Express, named John Maguire as its chief executive on April 18. Maguire was previously chief operating officer for Panera Bread.
The top three "better burger" chains offer restaurateurs lessons in putting burgers and guest smiles at the top of one's agenda. Whether in customizing options or making guests feel more at home by providing locally relevant flavors, the top better burger chains have a winning formula.
While these brands may offer the best-in-class ideas
The way of the sandwich is global, based on the latest trends in fast casual and casual dining. From the food truck spots in cities like Boston and New York, global sandwich cuisine is permeating the culinary setting of Americana. One doesn't have to go very far to draw inspiration.
From the visual to point-of-purchase (POP) material, promoting cold beverages is serious business to restaurant marketers. Chains are maximizing their presence on social media, including the Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest channels, to promote quenching thirst through their cold beverages.
The recent Sonic partnership with OLO Online ordering for Sonic franchise group Mason-Harrison-Ratliff brought an interesting offer to the table, or actually, to phones and websites: a Groupon deal exclusively redeemed through Sonic's online and mobile platforms.
The complex deal that will bring Burger King to the public equity markets once again sounds like a fairy tale. Justice is offering up $1.4B in exchange for a 25.7 percent stake, leaving 3G Capital with 70.7 percent, and controlling interest in, and management of, the chain, but on the surface it appears premature.
It's not your mother's salad: Last fall, the Food Network released a recipe for Peruvian Purple Potato and Quinoa Salad. The mixture of chicken broth, purple potatoes and Quinoa is the featured ingredient in the salad. No chicken, no cheese. Gone are the days in which consumers trudged through
Based on sales, the top five traditional (fast food) burger chains posted a collective 1.4 percent increase in sales, after a few years of declines, and drew a lot of interest in the media and in the investment community. As "better burger chains" continued to gain traction, and these newer fast casual burger joints came into their own, the traditional fast food burger chains were successful too.
Saladworks posted same store sales increases of eight percent last year, and in this year's first quarter saw same store sales surge 16 percent. In this Quick Serve Leader interview John Scardapane, Chairman and CEO of Saladworks, sheds some light on the company's menu and expansion initiatives, and its differentiated franchising program.
A soccer mom packs her four kids into the van after practice. Looking for a quick meal to reward the gang for their sportsmanship, she contemplates the various take-out options on the way home. With Italian on her mind, she settles on a family plate of lasagna at the nearest fast casual shop.
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