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NEW STUDY: Why Fast Food Isn’t Innovating Fast Enough

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After debuting mobile order-ahead services in 2012 and overhauling them in 2014, national bakery-cafe chain Panera Bread has become one of the leaders in the race to innovate among QSRs. . Most recently, the St. Panera gives its customers a verbal order assist.

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Panera Gives Its Customers A Verbal Order-Ahead Assist

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Earlier this month, the St. Louis, Missouri-based company partnered with Google to allow customers to place orders using simple phrases like, “OK Google, ask Panera for delivery,” or “OK Google, talk to Panera.”. It’s also about being one of the first national brands to embrace the next stage of mobile ordering, according to Berinato.

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Retail’s Ups And Downs: Holiday Shopping, The Olympics And The Samsung Galaxy Note 7

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And the internet fell in love with Bone, a 34-year-old St. Louis area resident, elevating him to a meme within minutes. Last week, the National Retail Federation predicted that holiday sales would climb 3.6 During the second presidential debate on Sunday (Oct. percent this year to $655.8 Based on figures by the U.S.

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Vending Machine Commerce Encourages Digital Payments Growth

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The capital will support hiring and the deployment of up to 500 new machines to St. Louis, Cincinnati and other areas. According to figures provided by the National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA), card-accepting machines tend to experience a 25 percent to 30 percent lift in sales over machines that do not accept cards.

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William Mills Agency Adds Mary Curtis, Angelo Jones, Alyssa Maker, Jacob Hamilton

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This includes managing day-to-day client communication, strategically advising C-level executives, working directly with media and crafting integrated public relations campaigns, press releases, byline articles, case studies, speaker proposals and social media messaging. Jones also worked with the St.

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Crunching Medicare Data Could Be The Key To Predicting Parkinson’s Disease — And Many Other Diseases Could Be Next

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A new approach to healthcare data analysis may change that: After crunching the Medicare claims data of more than 200,000 people, researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis developed an algorithm to predict if a patient will one day be diagnosed with Parkinson’s, or not.

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Can faster payments outrun fraud?

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businesses and consumers complete transactions, as the nation is only just getting up to speed with EMV technology. UK case study. “We have to ensure that security in payments is a concern,” said Dave Sapenaro, first vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Drivers of change.

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