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Freddy's tackles 'hospitality through a speakerphone' + lawfirm unravels confusion surrounding stimulus funds
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Freddy's Co-founder and COO Scott Redler discusses the challenge of customer service via drive-thru and delivery. Then, Messner Reeves attorneys Rachel Farr…
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Free webinar to help restaurant operators get up-to-speed in response to COVID-19
April 30, 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak has forced QSRs and fast casual restaurants to revamp their operations in response to new consumer buying habits. To help operators adapt…
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Sweetgreen going 'outside the bowl'
April 30, 2020
For the first time in 12 years, Sweetgreen has launched a category outside of salads and bowls. Its Plates menu offers consumers access to more healthy…
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Gott's opens San Franciso location
April 30, 2020
Gott's Roadside, a Northern California roadside restaurant emphasizing locally sourced ingredients, reopened its San Francisco Ferry Building location…
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Nathan's Famous tech transformation: Serving customers 'where, when and how' they want it
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
After a solid 102 years in existence, Nathan's Famous — one of the few U.S. brands around for the last pandemic in 1918 — has made a timely tech transformation…
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Toast launches flat fee mobile delivery for restaurants
April 29, 2020
Toast, a Boston-based restaurant management platform, is launching Toast Delivery Services, which offers simple flat-rate mobile food delivery for restaurants…
read nowQu Offers Free Online Ordering Service to Help Restaurants Survive COVID
Qu, the restaurant tech company redefining POS for digital consumers, announced today a free quick-start online ordering service for all restaurants striving…
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Feed the First Responders Supports Restaurants & Front Line Workers
Restaurants are fighting to stay open. COVID patients are fighting for their lives. Front line responders are fighting for all of us and our country.
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Pret a Manger reopening select NYC stores
by Cherryh Cansler — Editor, FastCasual.com
April 29, 2020
While many restaurants throughout the United States have opted to stay open for delivery and carry-out during COVID-19, Pret a Manger decided on March 17 to…
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Starbucks fiscal Q2 earnings hit by COVID-19
by David Jones — Editor, Networld Media Group
April 29, 2020
Starbucks Corp., one of the first global companies to feel the sting of COVID-19, reported a 47% drop in earnings during its fiscal second quarter, yet managed…
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Why Schlotzsky's isn't ready to reopen dining rooms
by Cherryh Cansler — Editor, FastCasual.com
Although based in Georgia, where restaurants are now allowed to reopen dining rooms, Schlotzsky's has decided against welcoming in-store dining. COO Tory…
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To reopen or not to reopen: How soon is too soon?
by Cherryh Cansler — Editor, FastCasual.com
In all things, someone has to go first, and in the pandemic in which we are now living, the state of Georgia has taken the lead in allowing restaurants to…
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Blaze Pizza, Mici launch DIY kits
April 29, 2020
Two U.S. pizza chains said this week that they launched pizza make-at-home kits to meet customers where they are as stay-at-home orders continue for most the…
read nowRestaurant365 launches lending program to help restaurants access capital
April 28, 2020
Restaurant365, an all-in-one restaurant management platform, has created R365 Capital, a program designed to help restaurants quickly access the capital they…
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Soupergirl rescuing her own business
Although COVID-19 is the villain to Washington D.C.-based Soupergirl's story, Co-founder Sara Polon and her mother, Marilyn, are no damsels in distress
listen nowIncentivio partners with ParTech on POS integration
April 28, 2020
Incentivio, an all-in-one restaurant digital guest experience provider, is teaming up with ParTech, Inc., a POS solution, to offer ParTech's cloud-based Brink…
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Paytronix secures $10M in additional funding
April 28, 2020
Paytronix Systems Inc. has secured $10 million in funding led by Great Hill Partners and Paytronix Co-Founders Matt d'Arbeloff and Andrew Robbins tocontinue to…
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PizzaRev opens 1st Virginia store Friday
April 28, 2020
Los Angeles-based PizzaRev will open its first Virginia store Friday, this one located in Virginia Beach. And though the store will only offer delivery and…
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