Shake Shack Is Ditching Plastic Straws at Locations Across America
Shake Shack makes the switch to compostable straws Danny Meyer’s ever-growing burger chain Shake Shack is eliminating plastic straws at all locations across the United States. Yesterday (Earth Day), the company tweeted about its plans to use “compostable, plant-based straws” instead of [...]
4 TIPS FOR BOOSTING DELIVERY CHECK AVERAGES
For consumers, the experience of ordering food through an app or even over the phone is missing one factor critical to a restaurant’s profitability: a server. Without that face-to-face interaction, the art of suggestive selling is eliminated, along with the potential for [...]
Show to offer tips on labor development
Any restaurateur will tell you that one of their most difficult challenges is labor – especially recruiting and retaining great employees. The reasons? For one, the prolonged economic expansion has led to a tighter labor market that is affecting many industries. According [...]
Essentials for courting, retaining millennials
By David Galante, senior director, Food & Beverage Solutions Management, Oracle With the food and beverage industry moving lightning fast, restaurant managers are pulled in more directions than ever in their day-to-day routines, making their reliance on team members — specifically a growing [...]
NO, DOMINO’S WON’T USE THIRD-PARTY DELIVERY
Domino’s U.S. same-store sales rose 3.9% in the U.S. in the first quarter, the company said Wednesday, extending a remarkable eight-year run of uninterrupted growth in the key metric for the tech-savvy pizza chain. But it was the company’s slowest performance in more [...]
6 ways your restaurant should embrace the digital transformation
By Joseph Brady, senior director of Digital Marketing, Reliant Funding Welcome to the Experience Age. An average of three startups are launched per second, and each one is determined to become a nationwide success. Among businesses, the restaurant industry is one of [...]