Craveworthy Brands Invests in Vistify to Manage Digital Menus
In today’s digital environment, digital menus are no longer just displays but rather strategic tools for improving margins and streamlining ops. That’s why Craveworthy Brands tapped Vistify Inc. to handle digital menus across its growing group of restaurant concepts....
Carryout Trumps Delivery at Domino’s
The quick-service pizza landscape is shifting and Domino’s is at the center of it. Consumers are increasingly opting to pick up their pizzas instead of having them delivered. According to Domino’s latest earnings call, carryout performance hit a record high, rising...
Pokeworks Brings In a New Tech Partner During a Time of Growth
Growth is what you would call one of those good problems. But a problem nonetheless, especially if a brand doesn’t have a high-performance tech solution to support it. Pokeworks has been blowing up lately, with 11 percent same-store sales growth in April and a newly...
Grubhub Teams with Wyndham for Delivery at Nearly 6,000 Hotels
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has partnered with the third-party delivery company to bring food and convenience items straight to hotel guests. Orders can be placed through the Grubhub app or by scanning a QR code on hotel signage. Guests and team members can unlock a...
Wahlburgers Moves On From Hy-Vee And Finds Growth In Off-Premises Channels
In movie terms, the news in January that Wahlburgers was ending its partnership with grocery supermarket Hy-Vee, a relationship that lasted eight years and spawned 79 locations, seemed as juicy as the Brangelina split. But Wahlburgers CEO Randy Sharpe insists it...
A Mood Media Survey Confirms Drive-Thrus Are In and Dining Rooms Out
It’s been trending this way for a while but Mood Media just took a Sharpie and underlined the obvious: in the QSR world, consumers prefer using drive-thrus over dining rooms, with 54 percent of respondents saying so in its recent survey. And that percentage may grow....
Off-Premises Dining Now Essential for Restaurant Traffic
Nearly 75 percent of all restaurant traffic now happens off-premises. That means almost three out of four orders are through takeout, drive-thru, or delivery. The data comes from a report made by the National Restaurant Association earlier this year. “Off-premises...
XRobotics Raises Millions To Produce More Pizza-Making Robots
Last year brought a lot of headlines about the tight labor market and how operators just couldn’t find enough bodies. Might that make now an ideal time for a kitchen-automation solution like XRobotics to make a pitch? Sure. It doesn’t hurt. But Igor Buchatskiy says...
Seattle Named ‘Most Expensive Delivery Market’ as DoorDash Raises Fees
DoorDash is raising delivery fees in Seattle, again. Amid ongoing battles with strict gig worker regulations, the company calls Seattle “the most expensive market to facilitate delivery in the U.S.” The city’s PayUp law, effective January 2024, required app-based...
Outstanding Operators
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