7 ways for grocers to gain customer attention when budgets are stretched “Improvise. Overcome. Adapt.” It sounds easy enough when a square-jawed, upright Clint Eastwood barks orders to a group of elite Marines in the film Heartbreak Ridge. But for American consumers,...
Who would have imagined that bottles of ketchup and mustard, and salt and pepper shakers placed in the middle of a restaurant table would ever have been viewed as a good sign for the future of restaurants? After the crazy year that restaurants and bars around the...
How can independent restaurants strike a retro-digital balance? Local and independently owned restaurants have had to make some difficult choices over the last year, but some found that solutions from the “good old days” turned out to be surprisingly helpful over the...
Who would have imagined we’d see a day when even ‘recession-proof’ luxury goods retailers like Tiffany have to SUE to be acquired? The COVID-19 global health crisis has luxury brand owner LVMH seeking to back out of an historic deal to acquire the...
By Julius C. Dorsey Jr. It felt good to go back to my hospitality “roots” during the stimulating dialogue on competitive strategy for restaurant success with the Cleveland Restaurant Alliance of the Ohio Restaurant Association yesterday. As those attending discovered,...
By Julius C. Dorsey Jr. Godiva is well-positioned to go head-to-head with Starbucks, but they’re also well-positioned to go around them to a unique and defensible “Godiva niche.” Godiva is already established as a premium chocolate maker with a...
