Restaurant Companies Are Ready for Dynamic Pricing, but Diners? Not Yet

What if you could squeeze 20 percent more revenue out of a busy lunch rush? What if you could do it without adding a single employee or paying more in ... Read More

What Is Dynamic Pricing, and Why Has It Made Everything So Expensive?

If you’ve ever taken your kid to a restaurant on a quiet ... Still, as a consumer, it may rub you the wrong way. That is a risk of dynamic pricing, says Kimberlee Josephson, associate professor ... Read More

Dynamic pricing is coming to more restaurants

Your burger and fries could soon cost $12 in the morning and $20 just a few hours later — at the same restaurant. That's because more eateries are experimenting with so-called dynamic pricing by ... Read More

Surge Pricing Is Coming to More Menus Near You

co-founder of restaurant dynamic pricing provider Juicer, said restaurants need to reference “happy hour” and other known promotions when explaining variable pricing to customers. “You need ... Read More

Dynamic pricing is coming for everything in travel

Then it was Wendy’s hamburgers (except the fast food chain clarified it was technically dynamic pricing, not surge pricing). But now, the real deal — surge pricing — is targeting your ... Read More

Subscriptions Are Hard to Cancel and Easy to Forget — by Design

Disincentives to cancel subscriptions services and automatically recurring payments can impact consumer budgets. Read More

Consumer News

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled Sept. 26 to discuss whether it will hear a First Amendment challenge to a 2021 Florida law that placed restrictions on major social-media companies. The number ... Read More

Welcome to Pricing Hell

When you think about it, though, dynamic pricing is ... or a situation where your kid urgently needs some medicine or supplies,” Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection ... Read More

Best Cookware for Induction Cooktops

We’re digging into that dichotomy, but one possible explanation is that folks aren’t sure their favorite ... you have a vintage model handed down by your family, that’s okay, too. Restaurant ... Read More

Tweetbot 6 Moves to Subscription Pricing

Tapbots, the maker of Tweetbot, has released version 6 of the app, introducing a new subscription pricing model along with a handful of timeline and design updates. The subscription costs $0.99 per ... Read More