Food and Drink

Well-known chain restaurants like Chili's have become known for giant menus. Everyone will be happier with streamlined offerings, including those concerned about the companies' bottom lines.

If bots can generate fake reviews that pass as real, the entire online review system will be completely useless. This is our future.

You don't need to paint your restaurant millennial pink to attract customers (I promise), but these four summer trends are worth your attention.

Restaurant menus aren't random, they're carefully crafted and chosen with more in mind than taste alone — especially when it comes to chains.

Balancing all the data a restaurant can collect about its customers with the need for the human touch is the perennial challenge for restaurateurs. Knowledgable is good. Creepy is bad.

The term "fast-casual" seems loosely defined as fast food steps up its game and full service restaurants become more casual to adapt to changing times. Now, some of the elements that define fine dining are showing up in more casual formats. Lines = blurred.

Any restaurant opening from Union Square Hospitality Group is one to watch. Operations at Martina, which its chef calls "fine-casual," are a look at current industry trends set to go big.

Hungry people will be loyal to the delivery app that gets them their food fastest, period. UberEats touts algorithms, analytics, and a little bit of the human touch in its work with restaurants.

It'll take more than just a new logo to compete in the crowded healthy-food-fast market. The Tender Greens refresh looks great, but its new restaurant practices, menu items, and technology will make or break the growing business.

OpenTable's expansion to international markets obviously includes reservations, but the company seems to be pushing restaurant discovery even harder.