What predictive scheduling legislation means for your restaurant

​​​​​​​Several U.S. jurisdictions have already enacted fair workweek legislation, including New York City, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and the state of…

How to celebrate food safety to make a greater impact on your brand

by Doug Sutton — President, Steritech

Changing your approach to food safety from regulatory to celebratory can drive improvement beyond your food safety assessment scores. In fact, when you treat…

Tell me where it hurts: 5 kitchen pain points solved by 1 KDS system

Implementing a technology solution is often the only pain reliever to solve your biggest back-of-house pain points.

Chef Chatter: How to offer plant-based foods without sacrificing flavor

by Cherryh Cansler — Editor, FastCasual.com

Tom Moran, corporate executive chef at Nestlé Professional, gives advice to chefs wanting to add more plant-based options to their menus.

3 ways mobile payments are changing the fast casual industry

Restaurants are diversifying the payment methods they accept. Cash, credit, and debit payments are almost universal across restaurants in the U.S., but…

How to make third-party delivery companies work for you

Gallup research found that customers rated third-party delivery service as highest on cost, lowest on speed, and second-lowest on accuracy and quality when…

10 ways to upgrade your burger game

by Christine Potts — Senior Editor, WebstaurantStore

As customers become more health-conscious, foodservice establishments are choosing to offer both vegetable- and meat-based burger alternatives.

4 low-cost ways to make your restaurant more Earth friendly

In honor of Earth Day, Jeff Stone, CEO of Compeat, offers advice on how to make restaurants more sustainable without spending too much money.

Essentials for courting, retaining millennials

Millennial workers want an easy and simple application process, and are using more automated application tools and smart-screening capabilities to streamline…

Will 'Game of Thrones' show up on your menu?

by Cherryh Cansler — Editor, FastCasual.com

Although Shake Shack and Buffalo Wild Wings are gearing up for the return of Game of Thrones with a few Westeros-inspired LTOs, we think a few other brands…

Restaurant same-store sales end 2018 on a high note, despite low traffic, high labor costs

The restaurant industry topped off 2018, with a 1.5 percent increase in same-store sales. Higher menu pricing and cost-cutting measures executed throughout the…

Chef chatter: 4 ways to ensure your food partners deliver high-quality products

James Cannon, SVP of Culinary of Urban Plates, demands that his partners only give him high-quality food products.

Bacon: Vegas' other favorite 'strip' that sizzles on Hawaiian sands, too

Hawaii and Nevada have the most bacon-obsessed restaurant customers in the U.S., and Alaska has the least. Where does your state rank?

Will legal marijuana create new restaurant opportunities?

Darren Seifer, executive director of NPD, explores how cannabis could become another way for restaurants to innovate.

Regaining control of last-mile delivery

In order to successfully regain control of delivery from third-party providers, restaurants must shift ownership of their mobile order flow back to themselves…

Trend watch: Demand for more delivery options conflicts with push to abandon single-use packaging

The Foodservice Packaging Institute's annual trends survey found that the two greatest trends in foodservice packaging — increased delivery and abandoning…

Chef Chatter: 86 the attitude when it comes to your Millennial-aged workers

The founding chef of Hot Indian in Minnesota discusses how chefs have a responsibility to transform the typical back-of-house culture, which has a fiery…

The neverending winter: 11 fast casuals hoping LTOs will keep customers coming back 'til warmer days

by Cherryh Cansler — Editor, FastCasual.com

From hot chicken to shrimp alfredo pizza, below is a partial list of limited-time menu items keeping us full, warm and hopeful for a spring thaw.

Do you understand the 'trifecta of restaurant expansion success?'

Expanding to more sites won't generate the same anxieties as the first opening, but you will encounter a different set of challenges. Lee Leet, CEO of QSR…

Study names Arlington, Virginia, as best city to open a restaurant

The Washington D.C. area dominated the top of the list with D.C. and Arlington ranking No. 3 and No. 1, respectively.