Live tweeting the CRFA Show

Subject line pretty much says it all!
Follow along under the handle jeninewsbite.
See you there, or, if you’re at the show — and you should be — see you here!

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Food fraudster foiled by Facebook

This news is actually about a week old, but I’m thinking of it as that delicious leftover I just rediscovered on the third shelf of the fridge: Restaurateur tracks down bill dodgers on Facebook.
 
Peter Leary from seafood restaurant Seagrass on Melbourne’s Southbank was fuming when the diners ate their way through the menu, pairing [...]

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To blog or not to blog?

The September edition of QSR magazine challenges businesses — quick-service restaurants, specifically — to think about whether or not a corporate blog might be a good addition to a marketing plan.
I am not going to tell you what a blog is — I trust that if you’re reading this, you’ve got some sense of how [...]

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Spies like us

Twenty years ago, if you wanted to know what your competitors were up to, you’d hire a private investigator or plant a spy — serious, dangerous, not-so-legal stuff! Twenty years from now, we’ll probably all share the same hive mind and the very concept of competition will be obsolete.
But in the meantime, [...]

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Faster, technology! Fulfill! Fulfill!

I love technology. Even though it’s been nearly a decade since I pitched story ideas to itbusiness.ca, I still check out the site, because I know I’ll read something there that registers on my neat-o-meter.
So it was pretty neat-o to see this story, posted yesterday: How cool technologies help fast food move even faster.
The [...]

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