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Restaurant Brands with the Most Buzz

Posted Mon, 2012-11-19 03:15 by BMM
Facebook page of Starbucks
Facebook page of Starbucks

Want to know what your license fees, royalties and marketing funds are doing for you - well, at least as measured by online buzz? A new daily social media index of foodservice businesses is launched today that shows Starbucks as the bellwether of online buzz and reach, from which all others quickly fall away.

Using Social Media the Right Way

Posted Wed, 2012-05-09 07:38 by Dave Tanaka
Chipotle's Back to the Start YouTube video
Chipotle contemplates problems of the modern world in YouTube video

Social media is being touted as important in promoting a business, but a lot of people can't quite fathom how it works. How is Facebook or Twitter going to help their business, and is it worth the time that they will have to take away from focusing on other essentials?

NRN's Most Popular Stories of 2011

Posted Wed, 2011-12-21 00:04 by Sam Blake

Nation's Restaurant News' ten most popular stories of the year include such topics as better burgers, consumer picks of the top ten casual dining restaurants and how to build business wi

Food Inflation Projections through 2012

Posted Tue, 2011-04-26 02:43 by Dave Tanaka

Chris O'Cull of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analyzes food commodity costs and projects their future course.