Google recently held its annual developer conference where it announced all the new things it is working on. None of these garnered more buzz than the announcement of Google Duplex. Duplex is sort of an extension of personal digital assistants such as Google’s own Home product or Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri. The upgrade here […]
As of last Monday, all chain restaurants in America are required to show calorie counts on their menus. A quick check of our local area over the last few days indicates that there is still a long way to go for full compliance. The new rule was actually created in 2015 as a part of […]
We all know that food delivery is the hottest trend in the industry right now. But what if you could get a whole restaurant delivered? It’s not a fantasy and it actually happened last week just a stone’s throw from our corporate offices. A new Rally’s restaurant building was delivered on a flatbed recently and put […]
UPDATE 1-8-19: Good news for residents of Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, and our own home state of Ohio. Pizza Hut has expanded their pilot program again to include these new states and will bring the total store count up to 300 restaurants by mid-January. The company hopes to expand this to 1000 stores by this […]
Is Disney the answer to America’s chef shortage? Well, that might be getting a bit ahead of ourselves. But what is certain is that the House of Mouse is doubling down on its recently expanded Disney Digital Network with the creation of a new online food channel: Disney Eats. This week, Disney hosted its Digital […]
California’s Proposition 65 already requires the nation’s most stringent labeling of products containing potentially cancer-causing chemicals. But a new ruling by a judge in California may take it even one step further by requiring coffee-sellers to put a warning on coffee cups sold to the public. The Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act was implemented […]
We were honored to host the annual “State of the City” address for our newly adopted home of Whitehall. Our new corporate offices were the perfect backdrop to showcase the city’s progress and rise as the new, hot suburb in the Central Ohio area. Mayor Kim Maggard presented to a crowd of nearly 300 residents, local […]
The industry leader in online reservation booking, OpenTable, was hit with a scandal as it was discovered that one of its employees had created hundreds of bogus reservations through a rival booking site. According to Eater Chicago, 45 restaurants that use the rival service called Reserve were affected, most notably over the super-busy Valentine’s Day […]
Google originally purchased restaurant review company Zagat for approximately $151 million dollars in 2011 in hopes of pitting the once-premier brand against upstart rivals such as Yelp. Unfortunately, they never really gave the brand the attention that it needed to prevail and now they are cutting their losses by selling the brand to The Infatuation, […]
For the last several years, Dunkin’ Donuts has been talking about eliminating its environmentally challenging Styrofoam cups. The chain first announced the decision in 2016 but news has been scant since then. However, a recent press release indicates that the plans are back on track. The Styrofoam cups, which are not recyclable and are problematic […]