Applebee’s serves up biggest sales of the year with Veterans-Day deal
What’s the secret to tripling sales? For Applebee’s, it’s giving away free food.
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Four metrics that show Uber’s not as bad off as you think
There’s no denying it’s been a rough year for Uber, and Lyft has been encroaching on its market share. But the company isn't as bad off as it seems.
Blue Apron? HelloFresh? Home Chef? We looked at 9 meal kits to see who steps up to the plate
The popular clothing-subscription company Stitch Fix filed for its much-anticipated IPO, and investors can’t wait to see what it will become. One thing it probably won’t be is another Blue Apron.
Why Stitch Fix isn’t like Blue Apron (and how it stacks up in its own industry)
The popular clothing-subscription company Stitch Fix filed for its much-anticipated IPO last week, and investors can’t wait to see what it will become. One thing it probably won’t be, though, is another Blue Apron.
Free burritos helped, but Chipotle sales still not recovered from outbreaks
It took Chipotle nearly two years, but its sales had almost recovered from several food-poisoning outbreaks that plagued its stores—and its customers—in late 2015. After a lot of reparations in the form of free burritos, sales earlier this year were nearing pre-outbreak levels. But then in July, norovirus turned up in a Virginia Chipotle.
Price hikes may chill subscriber growth, but Netflix still dominates streaming video
We learned last week that Netflix is planning to raise its prices (again). When this has happened in the past, notably in 2011 and in 2016, some Netflix members decided not to stick around. Time will tell if the newest price hikes will chill the company’s subscriber numbers again but, right now, Netflix is so dominant in the streaming-video landscape, the truth is, it might not really matter.