Article: By Popular Demand.

By Kate Leahy, Senior Associate Editor

As consumers tighten their spending, limited-time offers give chains pricing flexibility and relevance.

The limited-time offer (LTO) long has been a staple of restaurant marketing. The "hurry or you'll miss it" pitch provides marketplace news and, ideally, pulls in the occasional customer and the curious.

But with consumers less willing to part with their dollars, LTOs have become a more-important means of addressing what consumers are willing to spend as well as what they are interested in eating. Unlike coupons, which tell customers that a menu item isn't worth what they paid for it a week ago, LTOs ...

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