In Italy, as you may have heard, there’s a new law that doubles as “a marketing tool to brand Naples forever as the cradle of pizza,” reports Al Baker in The New York Times. The law was passed in May, “at the behest of the Association of Real Neapolitan Pizza, a group with 2,500 members worldwide,” with the support of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi himself. [Read more…] about Legal Pizza…
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Come for the food, stay for the entertainment
Quick table turns may be the way to high revenues in some restaurant-and-foodservice-industry segments, but certain venues are expanding their in-house entertainment options to get customers to stick around longer.
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USATODAY.com – McDonald's wades deeper into DVDs
lockbuster has a very big-footed rival about to stomp on its turf: Ronald McDonald. McDonald’s (MCD) on Monday will announce plans to begin testing DVD rental kiosks at all 105 Denver store
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Tyson Food Service: Hot Concepts
https://www.tysonfoodsinc.com/foodservice/HotConcepts/
We’ve proudly partnered with Nation’s Restaurant News to bring you the Hot Concepts! awards-created to honor operators who have given creativity, innovation, and forward thinking a permanent place in their operations. We feel it is important to recognize those operators who have done more than open restaurants; they’ve changed the way we eat.
Hot! Again is another prestigious Hot Concepts! award. It recognizes an organization that has been revitalized and made a strong return to the restaurant forefront. Look for the next group of Hot Concepts! and Hot! Again winners to be formally revealed at the 2004 NRA show this May. But, you don’t have to wait until May; look below to find this years’ winners.
To learn more about the Hot Concepts! program, visit www.nrnhotconcepts.com
Zimmerman's Brandtailing.
Zimmerman’s Brandtailing. “The biggest problem marketers face today is connecting advertising to retail sales,” says former BBDO exec Bill Katz, as quoted by Ellen Neuborne in Business 2.0 (June 04). He adds: [Read more…] about Zimmerman's Brandtailing.
Raising the bar in bars
For restaurant operators and other locations serving alcohol, the 2004 NRA Show offered solutions to help build business and cut costs. Among the solutions spotted on the Show floor: self-dispensing beverage units, plus systems to help operators track their liquor inventory and broaden wine-by-the-glass offerings while minimizing waste. [Read more…] about Raising the bar in bars
Energy drinks and other "alternative" beverages were in strong evidence
The emerging market in “alternative” beverages is front and center at the 2004 NRA Show. Consumers looking for non-traditional tastes from their beverages have a variety of new options to choose from, as smaller beverage companies carve out niches in upscale carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, the energy-drink sector continues to grow, and international tastes and flavors penetrate the American market
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New Pepsi
. “Innovation is what consumers are looking for, particularly in the small, routine things in their life,” says PepsiCo ceo Steven S. Reinemund, as quoted by Diane Brady in BusinessWeek (6/14/04). For PepsiCo, that outlook translates into “an intense lack of sentimentality about its principal brands.” [Read more…] about New Pepsi