Restaurants look to score sales goals during World Cup
What is your restaurant doing to try to gain new customers during the World Cup? Any creative specials?
Technomic Sees Upside for Family-Style Restaurants as Consumers Remain Budget-Conscious
Sixty-eight percent of consumers say they would be highly likely to visit a family-style restaurant because they feel these locations offer [...]
Weekly News Recap from Radiant Systems – June 21 Edition
June 21st, 2010 Mary Catherine Brutz, Marketing Communications Analyst
Should Fine Dining Restaurants Cater to Children?
June 16th, 2010 Mary Catherine Brutz, Marketing Communications Analyst
We all have our pet peeves, and I’m sure a majority of them are related to annoying or selfish behaviors of people in confined spaces. Have you ever been seated next to the person on an airplane who doesn’t appear to have showered in more than a week, or ridden in an elevator with someone [...]
Back Door Criminals
June 15th, 2010 John Pearson, Director - Data Security & Compliance
As a young man, desperately saving money for my first automobile, I spent some time working for a regional pizza chain. During that period, I recall an incident that occurred at another local restaurant. It was at night. On a weekday, after the close of business, two men entered through the back door. They robbed the owner at gun [...]
Weekly News Recap from Radiant Systems – June 14 Edition
June 14th, 2010 Mary Catherine Brutz, Marketing Communications Analyst
Local Marketing – How to Build Loyalty & Sales With the “L” Word
Many diners prefer to eat at places that advertise their involvement in the community – whether through food purchasing, local employment or involvement in neighborhood activities. This article suggests some great ideas to help bring the LOCAL back into your business to increase [...]
Radiant Systems Pays $1,100 for a Haircut! Would you?
June 8th, 2010 Mary Catherine Brutz, Marketing Communications Analyst
Georgia Cancer Foundation is a charity that is near and dear to the hearts of Radiant employees. Each year, Radiant’s Sprint for Cancer race in Atlanta benefits this amazing organization, and we were able to donate more than $100,000 this past April.
Pedal with a Purpose is a bike race held on July 25 that also [...]
Weekly News Recap from Radiant Systems – June 7 Edition
June 7th, 2010 Mary Catherine Brutz, Marketing Communications Analyst
How overwhelming is it to sift through all of the news and information that you receive in your inboxes each day? In an effort to help streamline this process, Radiant will begin sending out a weekly recap each Monday of some of the trends or thought-provoking articles, reports or unique stories that stood out to [...]
Keep the Bad Guys Out and Your Data Protected
June 1st, 2010 Jessica Lundberg, Senior Marketing Manager
Hardware firewalls are the first line of defense to protect cardholder data and are required by the PCI Data Security Standard requirements. A firewall provides another layer of security that blocks external access to your environment and limits inside access to potentially harmful outside environments. What does this mean in plain English? It helps keep [...]
Your password is 123456, right? No? Bet I can guess if not. Dare me!
May 24th, 2010 John Pearson, Director - Data Security & Compliance
In a recent security breach, 32 million user passwords were exposed by a website. This data made publicly available was analyzed by the security company Imperva who reported the following conclusions in their report:
16% of users choose only numbers for their password
30% of users choose the minimum length required for their password
40% of users choose [...]
The Evolution of Protecting Cardholder Data
May 17th, 2010 Jessica Lundberg, Senior Marketing Manager
I can’t remember the last time that I actually paid for something using cash. Can you? I use my plastic cards to pay for pretty much everything. They are more convenient than using a check, speed up transactions at stores and allow me to purchase goods on credit. However, the increasing use [...]
Restaurant Marketing Tactics: Thinking Local
April 26th, 2010 Jessica Lundberg, Senior Marketing Manager
I recently had the privilege of attending the 2010 Restaurant Leadership Conference this past week in Scottsdale, Arizona. Many within our company, as well as within the restaurant industry, always have rave reviews of this conference and it definitely didn’t disappoint. Speaker topics ranged from building your brand to social marketing trends to [...]
