Food for Thought

This post is the second in a three part series on ideas that will shape restaurant performance in 2011. Part three will follow next week. Part Two: Expansion, Investments & Operations

UPDATE: During their earnings call earlier this week, Starbucks announced that over 3 million payments were received via mobile phones. That makes Starbucks the largest mobile payments system in the world… Starbucks recent announcement of an iPhone app that can be used to pay at the register has received a lot of press this week. [...]

Happy New Year from all of us at APT’s Food for Thought. 2011 promises to be an eventful year in the restaurant space and we’ve heard a number of bets, top 10s, and guesses for what the year, and the strengthening economic recovery, will hold. We’ve synthesized these ideas into a special series, in three [...]

As we’ve discussed before, convenience stores have their sites trained on the lucrative quick service prepared foods market. Through a languishing economic recovery, consumers are looking for quick and convenient meal options at affordable prices without sacrificing quality. Many c-store operators believe prepared foods to be key to customer loyalty and higher profitability. For example, [...]