For many people looking to invest in the restaurant industry, a franchise presents an excellent opportunity to own a restaurant. Unfortunately, buying a franchise is usually a somewhat expensive affair.

When a talented person joins a company or organization, he or she can help accelerate the productivity of others. To begin with, he or she can serve as healthy competition, and this is likely to make the entire team work more effectively.

Without doubt, winter is finally behind us and we are truly in summer. To prove that point, Shoney’s®, the All-American iconic restaurant brand, today launched its Summer Road Trip limited-time menu featuring regional-themed sandwiches and a signature burger. In addition, the celebrated brand and America’s Dinner Table for more than 70 years, has created six delicious takes on its classic taste of refreshing Shoney’s lemonade.

Technology has changed the way in which restaurants communicate with their clients and potential clients. Waitbusters, LLC is excited to announce that they have seated over 75,000 customers using their Digital Diner software.

Zip Clock, from Hubworks, is being honored as this year’s Editor’s Choice Award for it’s affordability and advanced functionality.. Zip Clock is a time tracking software superbly outfitted for restaurant and retail industries. After close review of other time tracking competitors like WhenIWork and TimeForge, Zip Clock has proved it has a large return on investment.

CREAM founder and co-president, Gus Shamieh, tells us the whole story.

Scheduling solutions are garnering a lot of interest lately from operators. Due to a perfect storm of rising wages, health care costs, and employer liability filing this critical need has become more important than ever. For our 2018 Editor’s Choice Award, we examined numerous contenders, ultimately narrowing the field to three leaders: HotSchedules, eRestaurant, and Zip Schedules.

With eRestaurant 2018, Altametrics continues to break new ground.

The last time I visited my mother, we made strawberry jam – the old-fashioned strawberry jam without pectin. It was so easy to make, and the outcome was simply amazing. I asked my mother why she always preferred pectin-free jams and it was then that she pointed out that pectin-free jams are actually softer.

True, fried chicken has been associated with America more closely than any other country. However, that does not imply that other countries don’t find this dish enjoyable - Japan, Korea, and Thailand have always been known to consume fried chicken at very alarming rates. Their variations are nevertheless a bit different from what Americans are used to.

If you thought waffles were an American “thing,” you couldn’t be more wrong. Yes, this batter-based thin cake is a Sunday breakfast staple in almost every American household, but it is actually a Belgian culinary specialty.

Unlike what many of us believed a couple of years ago, skipping breakfast does not make us any healthier. In fact, according to studies, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But then again, it has to be a healthy breakfast for it to make an impact on our health.