Sweetgreen launched their mobile payment app a couple of months ago, and it has been embraced by their customers. The app, created in partnership with LevelUp, has already eclipsed MasterCard and American Express as a form of payment.
Read more at FastCasual.com
In a short video via Talent Management, Jessica Saperstein of ADP helps navigate health care reform with some practical advice and great strategies.
FastCasual reports on Square’s reinventing the register with Stand and Groupon’s release of the free iPad app Breadcrumb POS. Both affordable solutions are great replacements for traditional POS. Are you a user? We’d love to hear your experience with them or other iPad applications.
In the Food Tech Connect must-read monthly, Brita Rosenheim reports on the state of startups.
She echoes recent sentiments on “technology-focused food startups are enhancing the way consumers engage with food,” and, that “as the food tech sector matures, we are seeing an increasing number of these companies being funded or acquired by industry players.” Her monthly column highlights the most interesting acquisitions, financings and partnerships within the Food Tech & Media ecosystem, and has an awesome infographic to match.
K-Cups are not going away. Last week, Starbucks Corp. announced it has expanded its partnership with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. for the production of K-Cup packs. This new five-year agreement comes as the Seattle-based coffee giant positions itself to take its consumer packaged goods division global, which we wrote about here in Paige Papers.
Read full details on Starbucks and the K-Cup on NRN.
Some Food Truck fodder for your weekend, a great article in the NY Times this week on why gray dogs still rule the New York City Streets.
From baked goods to menus , the term “gluten free” seems to be everywhere. The number of consumers going gluten free is growing, according to new data from market research firm The NPD Group.
Summer has come to Starbucks, and they have a way to get that afternoon line doubled. It amazes us to watch the success of this deal each spring. They earn new converts for the whole summer with a week and a half’s worth of half-off frappuccinos.
There are new and returning seasonal drinks, with some serious anti-third wave launches like the Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino: caramel syrup blended with coffee, milk and ice, topped with caramel sauce, whipped cream, caramel and crunchy caramel sugar.
To celebrate the season and their new beverages, Starbucks has brought back its happy hour Friday, May 3 through Sunday, May 12. From 3 to 5 p.m.
We took part yesterday with the mocha frappuccino. After the discount, our grande “coffee granita” rang in at only $2.69.
Are you using Square?
It sounds like the new features, as reported in FastCasual, — order modifiers and custom kitchen tickets, will enable merchants to customize orders while keeping the line moving, and record orders while improving communication with the kitchen. The customizable kitchen tickets attach a number or customer’s name to an order.
Read the full analysis here.
Reporting a 26-percent increase in net income for the second quarter, Howard Schultz, Starbucks’ chair, president and chief executive, declared “Starbucks is as healthy as it ever has been.”
Europe, the Middle East and Africa remain a challenge, but Starbucks said Thursday plans for expanding its loyalty programs next month and building its packaged goods business will set the coffee company up for continued growth.
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