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Independents

Chelsea Market Has a New Landlord — It’s Google

6 years ago

This is really just a real estate deal, but Google is set to take over the building that houses New York's Chelsea Market. Ironically, the building is home to the Food Network, too.

Tech

SevenRooms Launches Integration With Toast’s Point of Sale System

6 years ago

This integration is one small example of a larger trend: restaurant technology companies working to integrate seamlessly to provide the best solution for restaurateurs in a sea of options.

People

Video: Restaurateur Danny Meyer Encourages Challenging the Status Quo

6 years ago

Get enough advice to run a restaurant business in just two minutes and 30 seconds with Danny Meyer.

Food

The Super Bowl Buffalo Wing-Pocalypse Restaurants Feared Will Not Come to Pass

6 years ago

Chicken wing joints certainly find it difficult to explain price fluctuations to their clientele. They dodged a bullet this weekend.

Food

Chipotle’s First Shot at Dessert Falls Short With Diners

6 years ago

Here's your next great food item Chipotle: Hot churros sold while people wait in line. You're welcome.

Independents

Restaurant Megatrends 2018: A New Kind of Big Money Can Remake Independent Restaurants

6 years ago

Big opens need big money in destinations where real estate and talent come with big price tags. The professionalization of this restaurant investment community was the logical next step.

Operations

Restaurant Megatrends 2018: Ordering and Payment Tech Create Haves and Have-Nots

6 years ago

As restaurants streamline their operations and hone app-based loyalty programs, technology dictates the divide between those who can participate and those who can't.

Chains

Has McDonald’s Solved the French Fry Delivery Problem?

6 years ago

[Spoiler alert] It hasn't. Even the most casual french fry connoisseur knows that soggy fries aren't a heat problem, they're a bag problem. Fast delivery will help, but hot fries will steam themselves in a bag, every time.

Chains

Chili’s Comeback Is Still a Work in Progress

6 years ago

There's still nothing to distinguish Chili's from TGI, Applebee's, Houlihan's, and the rest of the mid-market pack. The food may be cheap-ish, but it's certainly not good, no matter how much you spend on marketing.

People

Critic Q&A: Eater’s Bill Addison on the State of Dining in America

6 years ago

Creating a comprehensive "best of" list is a complicated and Herculean task. Few are better suited to comment (and rank!) the state of American dining than Eater's national critic.

Tech

Restaurant Megatrends 2018: Hit List Dining Changes the Game

6 years ago

Where to eat is important — but suggestions of what to eat are even more influential these days. But chasing after one famous and photogenic dish means you might miss out on all the rest.

Chains

McDonald’s New Dollar Menu Is Already Paying off — in Foot Traffic

6 years ago

We are not math geniuses, but more and more people paying less and less isn't the long-term winning formula franchisees are after.