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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]