Channel: Restaurants

Articles about the restaurant channel (QSR, Fast Casual & Fine Dining)

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Everytable Expanding the Halo of Better For You

  Building a brand with the ‘halo’ of better for you is the undercurrent driving a number of chain restaurant start-ups, and one outstanding grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh food retailer. That retailer is Everytableas regular readers of this blog know our own Grocerant Guru® Steven Johnson believes “Everytable has the best messaging within […]
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September 2022: retail technology deals and deployments at a glance

RTIH rounds up the stand out retail systems deals, deployments and pilots from September, including Walmart, Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, Kwik Trip, Marks & Spencer, Currys, Boots, Lowe’s, Ikea, and Aldi. Lowe’s is tapping NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise to create interactive store digital twins in Mill Creek, Wash,. and Charlotte, N.C. “We are always looking […]
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Walgreens Turns To Robots To Fill Prescriptions

The Wall Street Journal reports that Walgreens is using robotics to help compensate for staffing shortages in its retail pharmacies, “setting up a network of automated, centralized drug-filling centers that could fill a city block. Rows of yellow robotic arms bend and rotate as they sort and bottle multicolored pills, sending them down conveyor belts. […]
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Targeting Digital Natives Walmart Ups its Games

  Walmart is targeting the next generation of consumers with interactive participatory marketing that it hopes to edify its relationship with a new generation of consumers according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.   In what it hopes is branding coup, Walmart recently debuted 2 digital play experiences that tie […]
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Unionized Starbucks workers fear retaliation

Starbucks workers who voted to be represented by Workers United say they fear reprisals from the company, claiming that it has fired more than 100 employees who participated in organizing the workplace. Starbucks was recently ordered by a court to reinstate seven workers. Management maintains that it has done nothing wrong.
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Unlocking the Business Benefits of IoT-Enabled Food Retail 

Amid evolving consumer preferences and a myriad of business challenges across food retail, organizations have turned to digital transformation as a source of support for their physical supply chain and stores. Among the most prevalent innovative adoptions is the applied use of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. However, as economic volatility has increased and consumer […]
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Brand Strength Begins With Trustworthy Value

Beyond Meat, the plant protein, traditional meat alternative brand, has a value equation problem. A value equation is the internal mind-set that customers have when assessing the worth of a brand. A value equation is a mental perception that assesses value prior to a purchase. A customer-perceived value equation is what you get for what […]
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Willy Wonka Goes Sustainable CPG

As one of the founders of Max Brenner, the highly popular chocolate brand and restaurant chain, Oded Brenner was considered the world’s real-life Willy Wonka.  Now, after a brief hiatus, he’s embracing his inner “business artist” and building a new brand: Blue Stripes. While both businesses are connected by a core ingredient, the cacao fruit, Blue […]
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What’s for Dinner, for Generation Z, its Fast Food First.

  Success does leave clues and if you want too garner the attention of Gen Z consumers you had better start thinking like a QSR according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® who stated “David Portalatin and his team at NPD left plenty of success clues on how to garner […]
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Winning New Lunch and Dinner Customers Requires Starting with an Invitation

  Recent Grocerant Scorecards reveal that 34.7% of customers at your restaurant are first time visitors.  If you want to garner new customer you must extend a branded invitation with customer relevance according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. A new report from Intouch Insight Ltd. found that convenience does […]
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Hudson preps new stores, Evolve and Hudson Nonstop, at LAX Terminal 3

Hudson, which has more than 1,000 stores in airports, commuter hubs, landmarks, and tourist destinations across North America, has secured two new locations at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Terminal 3. As part of a 10-year agreement with Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), Hudson will open Hudson Nonstop and Evolve by Hudson stores in Delta Air Lines’ concourse. […]
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Inflation’s impact on the food and restaurant industries

As inflation hikes up the prices of raw food ingredients for restaurants, eating out is getting more expensive for consumers. Menu pricing across the restaurant industry has been accelerating rapidly since last year. Coffee has seen the most significant growth with >12% increase in July 2022 YoY. This increase is just ahead of pizza, up […]
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Longo’s Brings Ghost Kitchen Concept Inside Toronto Store

Toronto-based Longo’s announced that its Liberty Village store now is hosting a Kitchen Hub ghost kitchen – the first to open inside a grocery store in the city, and the beginning of what the two companies call “a longer term partnership.” According to the announcement, Kitchen Hub “has four new kitchens at Longo’s Liberty Village. […]
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Chipotle gets ‘Chippy’ with robotic tortilla chip maker

Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to test “Chippy,” a robotic kitchen assistant, in one of its restaurants in California. The pilot is expected to yield feedback from employees and customers that will help determine how to scale the technology at the chain’s restaurants.
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Panera Rewards Program Empowers Customer Choice

  Edifying its relationship with consumers, Panera Bread announced updates to its industry-leading MyPanera Loyalty Program, giving more choices to guests when redeeming loyalty rewards. Interactive and participatory Panera’s reward program will reap long term benefits from these new inclusive changes according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.   So, starting October […]
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Grocery Stores Compete to Capture Consumer’s Healthy Food Spend

As food and beverage businesses announce their participation in the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health Wednesday (Sept. 28), many are using the opportunity to unveil not only environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) initiatives, as one might expect, but also features to drive customer acquisition and loyalty with nutrition-minded shoppers. These efforts […]
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Starbucks says it’s ready to negotiate with union

Starbucks said it would like to begin contract negotiations with Workers United next month. The union represents workers at 238 stores that have voted to unionize. Union members are skeptical of Starbucks’ intentions, claiming that they have reached out to the company since May with no response.
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PizzaForno Fresh Fast Revolutionary Restaurant Competition

  Retail foodservice is evolving faster than most legacy restaurants can understand or keep up with according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. New grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresher and faster food platforms are garnering customer attention and migration. Have you heard of PizzaForno? It is one of North […]
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Fake Meat Sales Decline As Category Is Labeled As “Woke”

From Bloomberg: “Just a few years ago, with a blockbuster initial public offering from Beyond Meat Inc. and the unveiling of an Impossible Whopper at Burger King locations nationwide, plant-based meats were ascendant. “Now, after once enjoying double-digit growth, sales in the plant-based meat category are not just flat but declining, according to data from Information Resources Inc.” There […]
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Consumers Trade Restaurant Meals for Upscale Brands at Home

As food prices rise, many consumers are eating at home more often, offering premium consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands the chance to attract new customers. Even as many shoppers trade down, opting for less expensive grocery products, premium CPG brands somewhat counterintuitively have a unique opportunity to woo cost-conscious consumers. Daniel Doll, CEO of direct-to-consumer […]
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White Castle’s Grocerant Niche Snacks

  Once again White Castle is at the forefront extending its brand invitation according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. White Castle Bites are the latest innovation in the grocery freezer aisle. Inspired by the iconic flavor of White Castle Sliders, the new bite-sized snacks are made with 100 percent real […]
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Food inflation leads to changes in buying behavior

Food prices have jumped 11.4 percent over the past year with grocery up 13.5 percent and restaurants up eight percent. Consumers are switching to store brands, clipping coupons and otherwise looking for deals to stretch their food dollars further.
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Coffee & M&M’S® Lovers Can FINALLY Rejoice! Mars Unveils New M&M’S Caramel Cold Brew Candies

Iconic M&M’S brand’s “brew-ti-fulI” new offering will join its permanent flavor lineup in 2023    NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Today, M&M’S®, a proud part of Mars, unveiled its latest product innovation, M&M’S Caramel Cold Brew. The new product delivers a delicious combination of smooth, robust coffee flavor and sweet, chewy caramel, covered in classic M&M’S milk […]
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Coors Light, Tide Cleaners offer to do laundry for college football fans

To lighten the load of college football fans this season, Molson Coors brand Coors Light has teamed up with Tide Cleaners, a personal clothing washing company created by P&G detergent brand Tide, according to a press release. Coors Light wants to help fans “keep their chores light” by inviting those in select markets to drop their […]
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