Brain Exchange (Slides)Brain Exchange Session. Find information on discussions relating to eight topics including: Fast Casual Startups, Menu Development, Web & Social Marketing, Team Dynamics …
 | Each and every day, your restaurant team serves scores of customers. Your desire is to have every guest experience the very best of your brand, from the time they spot your sign from the street until they make an easy left turn headed for home. At … |
| Conventional wisdom (or at least the wisdom of the National Bureau of Economic Research) says that the Great Recession began in December of 2007 and ended in June of 2009. It was the longest lasting and most penetrating negative domestic economic … |
 | If you are an entrepreneur and you have one, two or even three operations, why should you be thinking about franchising? There are many reasons, but here are the top 5: I have a brand that I want to expand but lack the capital to do it by myself … |
| Over the course of my 37-year-career in the restaurant industry, I have had the privilege of serving in leadership positions at all organizational levels, from restaurant assistant manager to CEO. This is the fifth and final installment of a multi … |
![What’s the hottest segment of the restaurant industry? Fast casual. [Infographic]](http://global.networldalliance.com/new/images/avatars/41407.jpg) | As leading brands prepare to meet in Chicago for the sixth annual Fast Casual Executive Summit, we thought we'd prepare this infographic that shows how hot the fast casual restaurant segment is. Just a few short years ago, only a handful of … |
 | Last week I had the pleasure of hosting Jerry Calabrese for a Fast Casual webinar. For those that missed it, Jerry recently retired from McDonald's where he was the Global VP for Customer Measurement Programs. Translation? He built and ran the … |
| Do you like to sit behind a one way mirror and listen to your customers talk passionately about the food that they eat and the brands that they favor...or despise? Count me in! It's better than a night at the movies. Have you ever seen customer … |
| The latter part of May is always a busy time of year on my calendar. During the waning days of spring, there is a convergence of our Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation charity tennis tournament, the National Restaurant Association trade show in … |
| Are there too many restaurants? As we start 2011, it would appear that we are looking at another year of contraction in terms of the number of restaurants in the United States. The latest prognostication comes from an analyst at Barclays Capital … |
| This week, all across America, there are countless restaurant executives taking stock of how they and their companies performed in 2010. Even the casual observer of the trade press knows that there were decided winners and losers this past year … |
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Approved Software Does Not Equate to PCI Compliance
There is a misconception going around with many merchants dealing with how to become PCI complaint. Frequently, in our dealings with merchants, we have heard, "My software is approved, so that should …Type: Case StudySponsored by: Vendor Safe Technologies -
Case Study: Fast Food Franchise Security Breach
A franchise relied upon the POS software reseller to be their de facto IT department. The reseller performed a standard installation of the POS software and associated hardware at each location. At …Type: Case StudySponsored by: Vendor Safe Technologies -
Control Your Security, and PCI Will Follow
In recent years, it seems that there has been a concerted media effort to warn the public about credit card and identity theft. What seems to be lost in those stories, until you do a little digging …Type: White PaperSponsored by: Vendor Safe Technologies -
Cloud Computing in a Restaurant Environment
While there are more technical definitions used to describe it (one of best comes from the National Institute of Standards and Technology – NIST), Cloud Computing is basically the concept of …Type: White PaperSponsored by: Vendor Safe Technologies -
Five PCI Security Deficiencies of Retail Merchants and Restaurants
The five major credit card brands, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and JCB, joined forces in 2004 to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI). Its sole purpose is …Type: White PaperSponsored by: Vendor Safe Technologies
