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The latest news and trends in restaurant technology

3 new touchpoints for frictionless service

By Kate Leahy on Apr. 16, 2015

Frictionless service—when transactions at restaurants, between ordering, paying and receiving a meal, happen with less human interaction to slow down the process.

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How to engineer a digital menu

By Sara Rush Wirth on Oct. 29, 2015

When done right, digital menu features on tabletop tablets can boost sales and customer satisfaction.

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4 stabs at where restaurant tech heads next

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 27, 2016

Speculation about the next big thing was rampant among 900 attendees of FSTEC, the industry's annual re-up on technology trends.

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Restaurant tech watch: What’s next?

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 19, 2017

The experts who speculated at FSTEC about restaurant technology's direction definitely saw some curves ahead.

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Howard Schultz has no love for bitcoin

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 26, 2018

The Starbucks founder does believe his company could benefit from a future with a trusted cryptocurrency, says RB's The Bottom Line.

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The future is (almost) now

By Amanda Kooser on Oct. 29, 2010

2011 is just around the corner. Time to start thinking about your New Year’s restaurant technology wish list. You may soon be texting bills to your customers and updating your digital menu on the fly.

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Menuing Instagram

By Joann Whitcher on Nov. 14, 2012

Instead of fighting the growing trend of restaurant customers posting photos of their menu orders, Felipe Donnelly, owner of Cómodo, a four-month old Latin American eatery in Soho, New York, has embraced it, using the photos to create what is being called the first Instagram menu.

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Restaurateurs fund a tech entrant

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jan. 17, 2014

Chef Jose Andres and other prominent foodservice figures have invested in a guest management system that ties a restaurant’s POS system to online reservation services like Open Table.

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