Food and Drink

You can't judge the success of a food delivery app by counting the number of users who simply open the app.

How does the essence of a restaurant persist over time? This week's New York Times review of 32-year-old Union Square Cafe's new location explains how to successfully preserve a classic.

Tourists plan entire trips around food with increasing frequency. This has changed the idea of a restaurant as travelers seek immersive dining experiences outside of the traditional seated dinner.

As more travelers have realized that dining is truly an experience in its own right, more restaurants and travel companies are pursuing innovation and creating unique dining experiences around the world.

With the addition of reservations for advertisers, Instagram will reach customers as they're most engaged, offering convenient booking and instant ROI for businesses.

The way we dine out has changed — instead of serving just a meal, restaurants have become destinations in their own right. Fueled by the ability to search, sort, discover, and reserve across digital devices, diners can create the ultimate personalized experience any day of the week, and restaurants have evolved to accommodate these cultural changes.

Tune in for our take on the biggest — some might call them mega — trends we see in store for travel this year.

Whether you're a hotelier, restauranteur, an airline CEO, or a cruise director, Danny Meyer's universal principles for good hospitality apply to every sector of the travel industry.

In the same way that R&K has made the world larger with its travel reporting, expect them to do the same in this new form.

Between travelers' increasingly prioritizing local culinary experiences, and the emergence of F&B disruptors, hotels have a lot to combat in an already challenging environment. Hotels need better data on local customers’ tastes in order to succeed.