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11/16/2023

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05/08/2023

Salad & Go CEO Charlie Morrison tells RTS Chaos Strategist how he picks a team for a new business during the recent Food on Demand Conference in Las Vegas. “Too often, you find people that are just difficult to deal with and leaders have to be decisive,” he said, when it comes to making sure someone is the right fit in the organization—and taking action when they aren’t.

Former Wingstop CEO Charlie Morrison is now leading upstart chain Salad and Go, where he’s focused on growth with a healthy culture in mind.

03/27/2023

RTS Partner Len Ghilani recently took part in a meeting about company culture at Chick-fil-a HQ. He writes about the chicken chain's impressive efforts to live -- and always improve --its culture.

At Chick-fil-a culture starts at the top and doesn’t skip levels of the organization.

03/13/2023

RTS Partner Michael Lukianoff is moderating a Digitalization panel Tuesday, April 4 at the UCLA Extension’s Annual Restaurant Executive Conference. Details of his panel and the one-day meeting are below.

UCLA Extension’s Annual Restaurant Executive Conference is a one-day conference which provides a unique, non-competitive forum for restaurant owners and executives. Programming includes the insights of industry experts, with opportunities to learn, network, and be inspired.

03/05/2023

Congratulations Brenda Parker! This month, RTS Partner received a Top Women in Restaurant Technology Award at MURTEC 2023. The veteran tech executive has held leadership roles with several brands, including CKE Restaurants, Dine Brands Global, El Pollo Loco, Denny’s, Taco Bell, Sizzler and Gloria Jeans. She also led IT at Great Circle Management, a Krispy Kreme and Noodles and Company franchise organization, which was awarded a Nations Restaurant News IT Innovation Award and a Murtec IT Project of the Year Award.

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02/24/2023

RTS co-Founder Fred LeFranc is well-known for his business acumen, obvious to anyone he has counseled or heard him speak. In this podcast, Fred offers new ways to improve the customer experience, creating brand loyalty and affinity in the process.

Podcast: How To Generate "Results Thru Strategy" With Fred LeFranc Link: https://bit.ly/3Ktr5JJ This weeks episode of Give An Ovation welcomes Fred LeFranc…

02/16/2023

RTS Partner Mike Lukianoff, a data expert, told Restaurant Finance Monitor this month the outlook for once over-saturated full-service restaurants is “disproportionately favorable" if there's an economic recession. That's b/c so many (10%-15%) closed during Covid shutdowns that demand yet remains strong.

01/20/2023

RTS Partner and pricing expert Mike Lukianoff discusses significant changes in pricing strategy brought about by inflation on Food on Demand's website.

Some restaurants are discovering the pitfalls of following the herd for critical pricing decisions.

08/17/2022

RTS Partner and data expert Michael Lukianoff discusses dynamic pricing, the return of discounting, slowing summer sales and the health of the US consumer in this recent podcast with Bloomberg restaurant analyst Michael Halen.

Michael Lukianoff, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Extropy 360, joins Michael Halen, Senior Restaurant and Foodservice Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss a more localized, data-drive

06/30/2022

Seamless restaurant transactions are not widespread. But they should be, argues RTS Partner and tech guru Christopher Sebes, who details how they can be achieved.

The days of the POS occupying the gatekeeper role at the hub of the restaurant -- allowing spoke applications to connect only when they are pushed to do so or when those third parties pay a toll -- are in the past.

05/10/2022

Restaurant Technology Network describes Fred LeFranc's Food on Demand Conference 2022 panel as "bold, occasionally funny, and insightful throughout." Read about it here:

05/06/2022 Winning Customer Loyalty: Same Mountain, Different Paths Angela Diffly Co-Founder, RTN The session entitled “Monetizing Brand Loyalty” at the Food On Demand Conference, held in Las Vegas May 4-6, may have just as easily been called "Same Mountain, Different Path". That’s how moderat...

05/06/2022

Yesterday, RTS Partner Christopher Sebes (third from the left) shared strategies for easing the process of updating real-time, automatic menu and pricing during the "Simplifying Multichannel Operations" panel at the Food on Demand 2022 Conference in Las Vegas. Sebes, who is also NovaDine CEO (and a former restaurant owner), has long been a leader in the restaurant technology space.