OpenRest integrates with RestCloud's restaurant-specific messaging terminal

June 19, 2013

RestCloud.net, which streamlines the food ordering flow between online ordering services and restaurants, has partnered with OpenRest, a provider of white…

LRS' antibacterial pager now available

June 19, 2013

Long Range Systems, a supplier of on-site guest and staff paging, has introduced SafeTouch, a new antibacterial wireless paging device. The antimicrobial…

NEC debuts latest touchscreen kiosk at NRA

Rich Ventura of NEC Display Solutions demos the company's new touchscreen digital signage kiosks that many restaurants are using to showcase their LEED…

Maritz Motivation Solutions, Brandmovers partner to develop online employee rewards program

June 13, 2013

Rewarding restaurant employees is a must when it comes to keeping morale and productivity high, but it can often be expensive and time consuming. Maritz…

Compass Group selects MICROS Simphony solution

June 12, 2013

MICROS Systems Inc. announced that Compass Group — USA has selected the MICROS Simphony Enterprise Solution for its multiple business divisions providing…

Heartland Systems' SmartLink unveils Food Safety Monitoring platform

Heartland Payments' SmartLink unveiled a new food safety monitoring system at the National Restaurant Association Show last month. The system monitors cooler…

Faster, safer automated date-code labeling system enters market

June 11, 2013

The Date Code Genie, a fully automated, date-code labeling system for use in the foodservice industry, will launch this summer at the Western Foodservice &…

Customers expect mobile engagement

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

Some experts predict mobile payments to reach critical mass in three to five years.

Optiva intros restaurants to 'breakthrough LED signage'

June 7, 2013

Restaurants love the additional customers that bright neon signs attract, but hate the maintenance hassles, aesthetic challenges, high costs, and safety…

Long Range launches tablet tool for collecting real-time guest feedback

June 6, 2013

Long Range Systems, a supplier of on-site guest and staff paging, has debuted LRS Survey, a tablet-based tool for capturing real-time guest experience feedback.

Voice-activated, real-time customer feedback solution now available

June 6, 2013

Introducing a new way to gather customer or employee feedback, Speetra this week launched pulseM, the first voice-centric QR code application on the market.

ShopKeep POS named a top private company

June 4, 2013

ShopKeep POS, an iPad POS provider to brick-and-mortar merchants, announced it has been named to the Red Herring Top 100 leading private companies in the U.S.

SinglePlatform, GrubHub partner to integrate online, mobile ordering

June 4, 2013

SinglePlatform today announced a partnership with GrubHub, an online and mobile food ordering service, to become a menu provider for GrubHub's AllMenus.com and…

How to navigate back-office technology options

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

Technology can't predict the bus full of customers that just pulled up; you have to train your staff to be aware of what's going on outside of the data.

Fast casuals turning customers into bartenders

by Natalie Gagliordi — Editor of KioskMarketplace.com, Networld Media Group

RFID-based beer taps put customers in charge of their service.

Square Cash – A money transfer game changer?

by Brad Cyprus — Chief of Security and Compliance, Vendor Safe Technologies

Square strives to make financial transactions simple enough so that the average person on the street can participate.

Punchh named 'Top Startup'

May 27, 2013

Punchh Inc., a startup that delivers branded mobile apps and a cloud-based marketing automation platform for restaurants, has been recognized as a winner of…

Veggie Grill taps QSR Automations to improve speed, accuracy

May 24, 2013

Veggie Grill has implemented a new solution from QSR Automations in hopes of serving its customers faster and with greater accuracy. The California-based chain…

Customers embracing salad concept's mobile payment app

May 17, 2013

Just 10 weeks after Washington, D.C.-based sweetgreen launched a mobile payments and rewards app, CEO Nathaniel Ru is already calling it a success. The app…

Square reinvents the register with new Stand

May 15, 2013

Square Stand, new hardware created by Square for brick-and-mortar businesses that turns an iPad into a complete point of sale, is now available, according to a…