Today, we'll be continuing our series on the new FOHBOH platform by discussing some of the new features we're adding - in addition to the new look and feel. We have a number of fantastic new features in the works for FOHBOH members that will make the FOHBOH experience even better:

Business Directory

The new FOHBOH will launch with a brand new business directory accessible to all members. Vendors and service providers can create descriptive listings…

Happy Monday to everyone on FOHBOH! Last week, new President Stewart Anderson introduced himself and discussed an upcoming revamp of FOHBOH. This "relaunch" has been planned for a long time, and we are now mere weeks away from seeing it live on the web. Every Monday leading up to the relaunch, I'll be writing about important information regarding the new platform - new features, major changes, the transition, etc. Today, I'd like to give everyone an overview of the new platform so you all…

Dear FohBoh members, friends and colleagues,

What an incredible journey it's been since November 2007 when we first launched FohBoh. The social web has changed everything and FohBoh has played its part. However, after 5 1/2 years creating, developing and passionately growing the leading B2B platform and brand for social networking engagement in the foodservice industry, I have decided to step down as President and CEO of FohBoh effective today. In…

Trying to simplify the restaurant industry is like trying to simplify surfing. It takes time and requires experience while being surrounded by sharks and errant waves one can't easily anticipate. The restaurant business is hard. Want proof? Ask any owner, operator, chef, bartender, manager or food industry corporate executive. It's a scrappy $650 billion a year business with a total economic impact greater than $1.7 trillion. But, while there may be hundreds of thousands of restaurant…

There is a great article on mobile apps written by Noah Glass, CEO of prominent online ordering software company, OLO. Incorporating online ordering and mobile apps into your restaurant or chain's digital strategy is an excellent way to increase sales and…

Greetings, FohBohists!

Our users have continually generated fantastic content for the FohBoh community, and we can't wait to see what everyone submits next. In order to ensure that only the best content reaches our users, we will be approving all blog posts before they are published to the community. This will not affect the 99% of our authors who submit valuable substantive content - your blog posts will be approved swiftly and show up on the community as they always have. This…

Check out this interesting story - restaurant manager decides to shame reservation no-shows on Twitter, resulting in a backlash on Yelp. Is this fair? More importantly, is this even a good idea, regardless of fairness?

Building platforms at the local level can be incredibly messy. No one knows this as well as Facebook, Foursquare, Google, and Yelp. Except for maybe the multi-location national brands like convenience stores and big box retailers that must manage the presence of hundreds to thousands of individual locations on each of the relevant social and digital platforms.

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How Facebook’s Graph Search Impacts Small Businesses

The big news was Graph Search, a re-imagining of Facebook’s search capabilities that lets you find surprising new connections among people, photos, places and interests....like restaurants, bars and events.

In essence, Graph Search makes it…

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by ERIC MELIN on JANUARY 8, 2013 [reposted from Spiral16]

When is the…

The new FohBoh home page is our fifth, affectionately, clinically and internally referred to as "F5". We change the look and feel each year to reflect the spirit of FohBoh as an evolving and growing social media company. So, who is FohBoh and what is changing as we enter our sixth year (if you can believe that)? …

This has been re-posted directly from Angelsmith's website.

By Ryan Owens

Angelsmith’s List for Feeding Your Information Diet

Whether you’re a vendor looking for leads,…

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill.  (October 4, 2012) – Mid-America Real Estate Corporation’s Net Lease Investment Group recently compiled information comparing net lease data among the top five steak house chains in the country as a service to net lease investors. “We’re constantly asked by clients who the hot tenants are, what lease terms we’re seeing, and what the exit cap rates are,” says Mid-America investment broker and co-author Tom Fritz. “This study shows this information, plus…

Indian software company Tech Mahindra Ltd. announced today that it has acquired a 51 percent stake in Comviva Technologies Ltd., a provider of mobile money and mobile payment solutions, in a deal worth 260 crore ($48 million). The new company will be called Mahindra Comviva.

The world of mobility today encompasses a wide range of solutions, with both enterprise and consumers driving their business and entertainment needs through mobility, said CP Gurnani, managing director of Tech…

OpenTable recently published an interesting info graphic relating to restaurant reviews: over 15 million of them. OpenTable Infographic…

Southern rolls out premium wines by the keg

Premium Wine on Tap is an innovative and virtually waste-free way to pour premium wines by the glass…

I found this cool map created by Rosenheim Advisors, a strategic and financial consulting firm focused on the food-related tech and media sectors.

We believe that there is a massive technology-driven transformation of the foodservice industry happening right now. We first saw the sparks in 2006, some smoke in 2007 (when FohBoh was founded) a few fires in 2008-2010 and now, we are able to segment the new solutions. There are great tech-solutions arriving daily; some better…