NRN launches overhauled, continuously updated website

NEW YORK www.nrn.com, completing an overhaul that involved more than a year of research, redesign and rebuilding. —Nation’s Restaurant News has pushed the power button on a new version of its website,

The newly reformatted site was set up to help restaurateurs more readily find the news, trend coverage and commentary they’re seeking. Although the technology that operates it is more advanced than that of the site it replaced, the updated website was designed for simpler navigation. Ample road signs lead visitors to information pertaining to particular industry sectors—including casual dining, the independent-restaurant market and on-site foodservice—or specific disciplines, such as marketing, operations or finance. —Nation’s Restaurant News has pushed the power button on a new version of its website,

Visitors can click on the extensive menu of options that appears on each page—to the left on the home page, at the top of every other page—to jump to the content they want. Once there, they can delve deeper into their chosen subject by clicking on the headlines of stories also focusing on that topic, which are automatically pulled up by a “Related Articles” feature. Or they can probe a particular aspect of the topic by selecting one of the descriptive keywords that are automatically displayed. A search function is also offered. —Nation’s Restaurant News has pushed the power button on a new version of its website,

The site builds on NRN’s news heritage with a home page that features 21 timely stories, including a “Breaking News” section that is continuously updated with upto-the-minute industry developments. In addition to featuring content that is unavailable elsewhere, the site can accommodate videos, slide shows, webcasts and podcasts. —Nation’s Restaurant News has pushed the power button on a new version of its website,

“The new website is the logical extension of www.nrn.com’s evolution since we went live 10 years ago,” said Alan Gould, publisher of Nation’s Restaurant News and vice president of its New York-based parent company, Lebhar-Friedman Inc. “Yet at the same time, it’s a quantum leap forward, with more features, more capabilities, more flexibility and more content. We’ll continue to update it and tweak it to keep it the foodservice industry’s best site.” —Nation’s Restaurant News has pushed the power button on a new version of its website,

NRN.com was chosen as one of the best business-to-business websites in the nation by Min’s B-to-B, a trade publication for the communications industry. —Nation’s Restaurant News has pushed the power button on a new version of its website,