Los Angeles began enforcing its vaccine passport requirement on restaurants and a host of other businesses on Monday of this week. Arguably, the strictest vaccine mandate in the nation, Los Angeles now requires restaurants, gyms, theaters, hair salons and other businesses to see proof that patrons have been vaccinated before they are to be allowed…
Read More »A recent report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that adults who tested positive for COVID-19 were twice as likely to have reported eating at a restaurant within the prior two weeks. There’s a lot more to that story, however. The study authors themselves admit to at least five significant limitations…
Read More »As technology continues its unrelenting march forward, it is logical to envision more and more retail outlets and restaurants transitioning to cashless sales – even within brick-and-mortar stores. Well, that trend was just nipped in the bud in Philadelphia two weeks ago when the city council gave the final OK to a new ban on…
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Delivering on our commitment to bring you the best and most interesting and relevant presentations at the 2018 DDIFO National Conference, we are pleased to announce that The Phantom Gourmet will join us and present the opening keynote address on Monday, June 11! Dave Andelman, CEO, founded The Phantom Gourmet, Inc. back when he began graduate school. In…
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Get ready for some spicy Cajun food and toe-tapping jazz – this year’s DDIFO National Conference is taking it south to New Orleans. This might be one of the best years to visit: It’s the city’s 300th birthday. And this is a city that knows how to party. “It’s more than just Mardi Gras,” says…
Read More »Wage hike advocates may be loath to admit it, but according to a recently released study of Yelp data on the impact of minimum wage increases on lower to middle-quality restaurants, the impact is unmistakable. Buzz-feed, which wrote up the study, reported that researchers found that a $1 increase in the minimum wage in the…
Read More »The latest Miller Pulse Index was released this week and showed that same store sales for the broad restaurant industry had fallen 2.4 percent in December, the worst performance in the six years since the index began. Casual dining was the biggest culprit, dropping 4.0% in same store sales for the month, while the QSR…
Read More »Last week, we advised you of a class action lawsuit pending in California where a number of restaurants had implemented a 3% surcharge to cover increased cost associated with Obamacare. This week, we note a story in Nation’s Restaurant News (NRN) where West Coast based Restaurants Unlimited has eliminated a 2 month old surcharge they…
Read More »There seemed to be both good news and bad in the ongoing foodservice market research and the just-released Fall 2015 ReCount survey by the NPD Group. The latest of the twice-per year ReCount showed total US restaurants declined by 0.6% from a year ago, while chain restaurants increased by 1percent over the same time period. …
Read More »Mark Brandau of Nation’s Restaurant News reports that the annual Technomic Top 500 report found that 2009 was a brutal year for the industry’s largest concepts, with aggregate systemwide sales for the largest chains falling 0.8 percent. Upstarts, however, including Five Guys, Noodles & Company and Potbelly Sandwich Works, were able to post double-digit increases in sales.
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