As predicted, restaurants are beginning to experiment more and more with technology, meaning there’s less of a need for human workers in the FOH. This post from NPR highlights a new restaurant in San Francisco that has no visible workers in the FOH whatsoever. Instead, diners order their food at iPad kiosk stations and then retrieve it from pick-up “cubbies” when it’s ready.

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Gone are the days of a simple vodka soda, and here to stay are inventive, unusual drinks that highlight local and seasonal ingredients as well as food menus do. This post from The Drinks Business explores some of the biggest drink trends predictions for the next five years, including savory cocktails and aging spirits in alternative ways.

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With such a large amount of advertising dollars being spent on digital channels, and mobile in particular, it’s easy to assume that TV advertising might soon fall off the radar for quick-serve restaurant brands. The majority of younger key target audiences seem to be shifting their attentions elsewhere, so advertising dollars might as well make the shift, too, right? Not necessarily. This post from QSR Magazine delves into whether television is still a relevant channel for advertising, and came up with some surprising findings.

While millennials are watching less television than the same age group ever has before, TV is still the biggest forum for consuming video. And with a strategic social media element to an advertising campaign, television ads can still be a relevant and effective form of advertising. However, the article did make note that simply having ads on TV is not enough; the messages need to be clear, relevant to consumers, and tell a unique story from a branding point of view. A study referenced in the post found that messages that included some mention of convenience, value and taste (and preferably a combination of all of those things) seemed to have the most resonance and the biggest effect on sales revenue. For more insight into TV advertising, keep reading.

Read the full article here: TV Advertising Still Matters

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