GrubHub is expanding its partnership with autonomous delivery robot company Avride. This delivery robot pilot will be available to customers ordering from Wonder’s Jersey City, NJ location. Now, when ...
Back when digital ordering was in its nascent stages of popularity, operators began experimenting with social media ordering. From 2016-2020, brands like Subway, Chipotle, and Papa Johns debuted ...
It was a peek into what life could possibly look like in late 2025 without the internet, and it was … quite an adjustment. When Amazon Web Services went down for hours on Monday, Oct. 20, several ...
Joe R. Lee, the co-founder and first general manager of Red Lobster and the first chief executive officer of Darden Restaurants, passed away Oct. 12 at the age of 85. His death was first announced in ...
Nearly 70 Pizza Hut restaurants in the United Kingdom will close after the market’s franchisee, DC London Pie Limited, filed for administration. The closures are expected to impact 1,210 employees, ...
Labor is always a challenge for restaurateurs, but the past few years have been especially hard. The pandemic turned restaurant employees into essential workers, and that was followed by the “Great ...
Chefs have been media stars for decades, going back to the advent of the Food Network and cooking competition shows. Now they have a new platform where they’re the star — social media — and ...
On this week’s Extra Serving, NRN editor in chief Sam Oches and executive editor Alicia Kelso discuss the latest restaurant industry news, including innovations in loyalty programs, new value deal ...
Chick-fil-A is the latest quick-service chain to aggressively go after the growing number of beverage-seeking consumers. The chain and its subsidiary, Red Wagon Ventures LLC, plans to open Daybright, ...
Salad and Go, the drive-thru salad concept, plans to close 41 restaurants, the company CEO said Tuesday. “This includes all locations in Houston, Austin and San Antonio, along with a few in the Dallas ...
How does a restaurant company achieve scale? The easy answer is to suggest that, in this industry, chains equal scale: Replicating a concept into multiple locations magnifies its impact and potential.
The intensifying value environment may finally be starting to yield some positive results more than a year after McDonald’s fired the first (or, at least, the biggest) salvo with its $5 Meal Deal ...