Both chains and independents are trying clever nontraditional tactics to attract holiday-related business.

Restaurants fine-tune incentives, restrictions for holiday gift card buyers.

Smartphone and tablet ownership is on the rise, but their users take different paths to find information about your restaurant.

How to win friends and influence people, in 140 characters or less.

Travelers not finding your restaurant? A new dining voucher service could lead them to your door.

Now that OpenTable’s making it easy for its restaurant customers to have a strong mobile presence, should other operators jump on the mobile-optimization bandwagon, too?

Multiconcept innovator LEYE is on the fast track to home delivery of restaurant-branded products, thanks to Peapod.

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How do people with out-of-the-mainstream food preferences find your restaurant? Now there’s an app for that.