Technology

The app, which allows users to order and pay for food from their smartphones and was pitched at last month’s Germinate event, created a more convenient dining experience for the night’s customers but meant vendors had to adapt their serving habits.

Roaming Hunger became the go-to site and app for the budding scene. But Resnick still had little idea how to make any money save for a few online ads. Then a business model fell in his lap.

Fever in cities like New York and London, the Food Trucks are conquering Brazilians. The itinerant food outlets offer all kinds of cuisine, all made fresh, affordable and … in the street!

Mobile cheesecake? This could get dangerous.

The POS solution that a hair salon or a hotel needs is very different than a yogurt shop or a restaurant or a spa

Food trucks have become a South by Southwest Interactive tradition, and options galore will line several streets in downtown Austin, Texas, where the tech festival begins Friday.

Dozens of food trucks pack the city streets, but what happens to the gourmet eateries on wheels once the night is over? Josh Delozier and Travis Stephens made finding food trucks as easy as a tap of a button with TruckItOKC. Delozier said they created the app last year with the help of food truck owners to give them what they wanted in an app.

The City of Boston’s Office of Food Initiatives has, pun intended, a pretty full plate. As popular as various food programs are, and as much as they have grown, I don’t know if they have had much, if any, increased staffing.

The rise in debit- and credit-card use — at food trucks, at coffee shops, in taxis and elsewhere — is increasingly exposing customers to screens with tipping suggestions, which in turn are compelling them to add tips more and more often.

Hungry Saskatoon residents lost downtown searching for their favourite food truck may have just found their lunch-time saviour.