A restaurant recommendation used to come from a friend, a Google search, or a review site. Today it often starts with a short video: a cheese pull, a packed dining room, a regular explaining why they keep coming back. TikTok is now turning those videos into a guide. TikTok Must Eat is an in-app TikTok […]
Jorge Cantu, Annie Choi, and Polly Tseng run very different businesses. Together, their Menu EN conversations show that great hospitality depends on personal connection and the decisions customers never see.
“If you come to our shop, everything is made by me, but it’s like the memory of my mom, basically.” says Polly Tseng, owner of LT9 Tea Blends. When LT9 Tea Blends opened in Old Town Pasadena, there was no grand opening. The family soft-opened during COVID, when few people were out walking and almost […]
Los Angeles is getting its first-ever Armenian food festival. On Sunday, November 1, 2026, Menu AM and GiniFest are bringing the inaugural Armenian Food Festival to Glendale, in partnership with ArmenianArts and Orders.co. From noon until 9 PM, 222 N. Orange St. will be filled with Armenian food, Armenian wines, live music, and traditional dancing. […]
Annie Choi jokes that she has about 9,500 names and drink orders stored in her head. It is her way of describing how hard she works to remember the people who walk through her door. That habit is the clearest way to understand Found Coffee, the independent specialty coffee shop Annie opened in Eagle Rock, […]
U.S. wholesale food prices were 2.6% lower in September 2026 than a year earlier. Yet producer prices for prepared seafood rose 19.3% and fresh vegetables 17.8%, according to the National Restaurant Association’s analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. So are restaurant food costs falling in 2026? Slightly, on average. But ingredients are moving in […]
Some of your best future customers are already on your block. They just left a spin class, a haircut, or the hotel down the street, and they have not decided where to eat. New research shows how often those trips overlap. In OpenTable’s inaugural U.S. Restaurant Impact Report, released September 29, 2026, 60% of surveyed […]
Your menu hasn’t changed, and neither have your hours nor your prices. The food is as good as ever, and your reviews look fine. But delivery orders are slipping. Demand can drop for many reasons, from a new competitor nearby to a slow season. One place operators often forget to look is the performance dashboard. […]
The best point of sale for coffee shop owners in 2026 is Orders.co for most independent cafes. Its $69 Operator plan includes a cloud POS with nested drink modifiers, DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub integration, a branded ordering website, loyalty, and delivery dispatch, backed by 24/7 live support. Square is the pick for a brand-new […]
Olo has launched a consumer food delivery app with no restaurant commission and a 5% guest fee. Here’s how it compares with DoorDash, Uber Eats, and your own ordering website, and how to tell whether it adds real business.
Customers say they prefer ordering directly, but a hard-to-use phone experience can stop the order. This guide shows you how to test your restaurant’s mobile ordering from menu to kitchen ticket, and what to fix first.
Better restaurant food photos start with a clean lens, sharp focus, soft window light, and a setup you can repeat. These 10 easy fixes show you how to shoot photos and short videos of your real dishes with the phone you already own.
