Scooters are the new “it” mobile vending, according to an article today in Bloomberg Business Week.
The article focuses on Howard Leonhardt, who recently began Food Trikes & Scooters to sell food trikes and scooters for a fraction of the price it costs to launch a truck.
Whether you’re looking for a job or candidate, or might like to do some housekeeping yourself, this article and tips from Hourly.com will lead your online persona to a washed – clean state, or see that it is already through some of their suggestions, like checking Reppler to search your slate for you.
Instagram quickly became one of the hottest ways for operators to interact with their clientele. It’s low-cost, you can receive and share customers’ photos on your own feed, facebook, twitter, or other social media. And for now, it’s still free.
In January, about one-third of U.S. adults said they wanted to cut down on gluten or avoid gluten in their diet all together, marking the highest percentage making this claim since The NPD Group began tracking the trend in 2009.
NPD’s Dieting Monitor, which tracks on a bi-weekly basis top-of-mind dieting and nutrition-related issues, reports that 30 percent of adults, or one in every three, claimed to cut down on or avoid gluten completely in January 2013.
Firespotter Labs, creators of Noshlist for iPad, have announced readiness for Android, iPhone, and iPod Touch. The platform serves to alert diners when their seats are ready. Read the story in full here.
Breadcrumb has unveiled an new upgrade to its iPad POS for restaurants, bars and cafes, Fast Casual reports.
Highlights of Breadcrumb 1.4 include:
Expanded Features for Delivery Businesses
Improved Tip Application and Monitoring
San Francisco is known in the Specialty Coffee sector for the abundance of excellent roasters which have long dominated the coffee house scene. Blue Bottle, Intelligentsia, Four Barrell, and Ritual, all with their own shops, have new competition from themselves and newcomers, and they’re stirring up waves in the city. A few months ago, Reveille, which brews Four Barrell Coffee, opened in North Beach. Last week, with the conversion of Emblem Market into The Mill in Divisadero, which specifically bills itself as a partnership between Josey Baker Bread and Four Barrell, we are growing more curious about the city’s coffee trends.
Eater SF has a great profile today of The Mill and the transformation, with gorgeous photos of the space.
Sweetgreen, a chain of East Coast eateries (one soon to open in NY), has launched a branded mobile payment app called sweetgreen rewards, built by Boston-based startup LevelUp.
An added plus: when customers use the app instead of a credit card, Sweetgreen doesn’t pay a processing fee. They’re donating 1 percent of all sales from the app to charity, said Jonathan Neman, co-founder of Sweetgreens, making this extra sweet.
Read more at FastCasual.com
With Valentines’ Day falling on a Thursday this year, there’s a multi-day opportunity for celebrations and revenue, and operators are positive. NRN shares great advice.
As more customers use their mobile devices, restaurants using apps to connect with their customers are better poised for growth. To assist operators, Appsbar has launched a free “Create your Own App” Platform, allowing businesses to create their own apps.
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