Restaurants

Tablet PCs have been the "next big thing" in computing.

Hotels and restaurants may not agree on price, but they do agree that HSIA is worth every penny

Captain D's, operator of more than 580 seafood restaurants is installing QSR Automations (qsrautomations.com) ePic Kitchen Management Solution, with 30 stores planned for completion by the end of 2004 and continued implementation efforts to occur throughout 2005.

A new report published by The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell is challenging executives to rethink their hotel discounting strategies.

Hospitality Technology magazine and Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG, htng.org) are joining forces to create the first Hotel Technology Forum, April 20th to April 22nd at the Bellagio Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

Most travelers would not return to a hotel where the Wi-Fi Internet service was unsatisfactory according to a BT survey of regular hotel users across North America.

McDonald's is now accepting MasterCard (mastercard.com) PayPass, a new "contactless" payment option utilizing radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.

PricewaterhouseCoopers forecasts revenue per available room (RevPAR) to increase by 6.3 percent in 2004, the largest increase in 20 years.