National Restaurant Association Show

Saturday, May 18, 2024

The National Restaurant Association Show offers attendees ideas and inspiration year-round. From menus to workforce to technology to operations. Restaurant Business will be covering the Show’s resources to bring you the latest updates, trends and insights. Stay connected here.

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Beverage

How Chicago restaurant Swift & Sons stirs a perfect martini

By Kelly Killian on May 26, 2016

Watch the bartender at this high-end steakhouse deliver "eatertainment" with a tableside martini demo and a tale.

Workforce

6 labor solutions from restaurants’ big event

By Peter Romeo on May 22, 2017

The industry's annual convention served up some low-cost ideas for drawing and keeping good employees.

Leadership

5 new phrases restaurateurs should learn fast

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 23, 2017

Technology and young people are changing the way the restaurant industry is talking about customers, concepts and more. Here's the latest lingo that savvy foodservice folks need to add to their vocabulary—stat.

Technology

E-wallets’ early adopters

By Amanda Kooser on Nov. 01, 2013

The burgeoning world of mobile has been on a slow collision course with the restaurant industry. But it may be time to speed things up.

‘Star Trek’ or just the next NRA Show?

By Peter Romeo on May 18, 2014

Telling fact from science fiction isn’t always easy at this year’s tech-rich National Restaurant Association convention. See if you can determine which advancements in restaurant technology are real, and which you can still only find on the Enterprise.

Eating my way through NRA 2014

By Patricia Cobe on May 21, 2014

Senior Editor Pat Cobe shares 10 business-building food and beverage trends she spotted at the show.

Pizza entrepreneur pushes for giveaway protection

By Bianca N. Herron on May 19, 2015

The proprietor of Michigan-based Passport Pizza wants to see more restaurant food donated, and believes liability protection is the way to make it happen.

Financing