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SpotOn Named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List 2024

SpotOn

SpotOn earned the standing of number 9 in the Dining category , which recognizes companies driving the restaurant industry forward through technology. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., The innovation continues with the company’s release of SpotOn Marketing Assist , its first automated, AI-enabled marketing tool for restaurants.

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A Series of Extremely Scientific Theories on Why Fun Is Fun

EATER

We celebrate all of that luxury and excess at these moments precisely because we feel that we’re at a tipping point and we could be facing complete decline. The ostentatious, performative elements popping up at restaurants nationwide certainly are a lot of fun. Or maybe it’s just the turning tides of consumer aesthetics!

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40 Iconic Restaurants That No Longer Exist

RGU

1982: Sambo's The causal diner opened during the peak of roadside dining in 1957. 1982: Sambo's The causal diner opened during the peak of roadside dining in 1957. From swanky celebrity hot spots to local institutions, take a look back at some of the most iconic restaurants that have, sadly, gone out of business.

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10 Alternative Foodservice Formats Impacting the Restaurant Industry

Aaron Allen & Associates

of consumer foodservice sales globally, but it’s significantly higher in more developed regions like Western Europe (7.2%) and North America (4.5%). The vending machine model has clear benefits for unit economics, both from the CAPEX investment point of view and labor and staffing cost optimization.

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P.F. Chang’s To Go and Wing Squad Delivers

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features Boston Market, Danu Partners, P.F. Chang’s, Wing Squad, Yumpingo, Restaurant Revolution Technologies, Waitbusters, Dairy Queen, Fish City Grill, The National Restaurant Association and the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation and Keilhauer. New CEO at Boston Market. The plan is here.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. The plating of these was vaguely scale-like, too.)

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?? 5 Guaranteed Reasons to Love Texas Wine Country

A Wine Story

In 2008, Chris Brundrett and William “Bill” Blackmon maxed out their credit cards and created their winery, now a Texas wine country icon. Focus on 100% Texas Fruit Click to Tweet Chris also mastered the skills of a savvy salesperson by working as both a server and door-to-door knife sales agent to put himself through school.

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