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Loyalty App Smackdown: Unveiling User Rating Trends Across App Stores

In the age of convenience, loyalty programs have become a battleground for brands, with mobile apps serving as the key weapon. But when it comes to user satisfaction, a surprising truth emerges: loyalty app ratings can differ dram...

What Makes a Restaurant Accessible?

The average American dines out thrice a month with 51% saying that it’s more convenient to cooking while 44% enjoy socialization according to a recent survey by US Foods. However, for the 42.5 million Americans with disabilities, ...

A Match Made in Heaven: How Restaurants Can Benefit from Farmers Markets

Farmers markets have quickly become a staple for many communities across the United States as well as around the world. They are the perfect weekend or weekday destination for the shopper looking to spend time with folks in their ...

10 Ways to Use the Commercial Food Mill in Your Restaurant

Food mills are great at grinding soft foods into smooth, silky, uniform mashes or purees – even when those foods are pulpy and fibrous or have seeds and skins. Commercial electric food mills are even better at making high volumes ...

Strategies for Restaurants Wishing to Attract Pet-Owning Customers

Approximately 72% of Americans consider their pets as just another family member. Many dog owners wish there were more pet-friendly dining options, so they could bring Fido along with them, the next time they enjoyed a family meal...

Catering Equipment for Off-Premise Events: What Operators Need to Know

Off-premise catering requires a different equipment setup than in-house service - hot holding, cold transport, and food safety compliance all work differently when you're away from your kitchen. This post covers the essential equi...

Digestive Health Improvement With Probiotics

20 million citizens across America suffer from chronic digestive issues. This ranges from diabetes and certain forms of cancer to simple hypertension. 72% of American citizens at large regularly experience at least one symptom of ...

Navigating Food Allergies in Restaurants: What Every Kitchen Needs

Food allergies affect roughly 33 million Americans, and more than half of reactions happen even after the customer told staff about their allergy. This post covers the full picture: the Top 9 allergens, the equipment decisions tha...

Simple Changes To Accommodate Vegans In Your Establishment

The demand for vegan options in dining establishments is steadily growing as more people adopt plant-based lifestyles. Recent data from Ipsos suggests that the number of vegans in the United States has risen to over 13.4 million, ...

Is Your Restaurant Accessible For The Visually Impaired?

Eating out is an experience that improves an individual’s mood, according to science. But for the 12 million people in the U.S. with a visual impairment, it can be a difficult experience. Just 19% of people feel that restaurants a...

Keeping Your Water Safe and Clean: At Home Water Filters

Did you know that more than1 out of 5 of all Americans have been exposed to contaminated drinking water in the past ten years? With how much we use water in our daily lives– and the small amount of water that is available for cons...

How to Properly Grow Your Team By Hiring Slow and Firing Fast

Nobody at work wants to be the bad guy within restaurant management and let people go - and who can blame them? This industry has struggled severely throughout the pandemic with limitations of seating, pickup, and delivery. You co...

Nurturing The Next Generation Of Great Chefs

Being a chef is more than just cooking and serving food. The culinary arts is actually more than just filling people's hunger, it's more of an art and science combined. In terms of employment, chefs are in high demand in the US, a...

How to Start a Food Delivery Service

Food delivery has become a staple of today’s society. What was once considered a luxury used by a few has become a regular part of life for most people. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, food delivery services became ess...

Navigating And Mastering The Downturn

Restaurateurs always face difficulties during times of hardship; when money is tight, people don’t head out. It goes without saying that the past two years have been more difficult than most, with Fortune estimating that 110,000 c...

Alternative Ways to Calculate Credit for the Credit Invisible

92 million Americans have little to no credit history. Their lack of credit can be due to multiple reasons from lack of experience to unfortunate life events, but what many people don’t realize is that a lack of credit history can...

The Shifting Beverage Market: Non-Alcoholic Drinks

With the beverage market experiencing rapid growth & innovation, the world of beverages has recently shifted more towards non-alcoholic beverages versus alcoholic and sugary drinks

How Digital Marketing Is Changing the Food Service Industry

Digital marketing has become the single most important technology investment in the food service industry. NRN Intelligence's 2024 Restaurant Technology Outlook found that 46% of all operators plan to invest in digital marketing t...

What You Need To Know Before Opening A Second Restaurant

Expanding your restaurant business to a second location involves careful planning and consideration. This guide covers essential topics such as securing funding, choosing the right location, developing a business and marketing pla...

How To Prepare A Healthy And Delicious Catering Menu For A Health Spa

Catering for any event or location presents unique challenges, but preparing food for a health spa is going to require a little additional work. These are locations where people want to be pampered, yet they also want to detox the...