by Adam Wahlberg | Mar 4, 2025 | News, Outstanding Operators
Dave’s Hot Chicken is an Outstanding Operator. It is no mystery why Dave’s Hot Chicken is so attractive to private-equity firm Roark Capital, which announced last week its intentions to purchase it for roughly $1 billion. This is a franchise that in only its seventh...
by Bernadette Heier | Feb 27, 2025 | News, Outstanding Operators
White Castle is a Food On Demand Outstanding Operator. White Castle—known for its famous sliders—continues to innovate in several areas, including the off-premises side of its business. To handle the growing demand for delivery, the over 300-location brand...
by Adam Wahlberg | Feb 25, 2025 | News, Outstanding Operators
Food On Demand is recognizing The Grill at OnCue as an Outstanding Operator. Convenience stores with fresh food are no longer a step behind their step-cousins in the quick-service restaurant world. Take OnCue. It operates 75 C-stores in Oklahoma and Texas, with 35 of...
by Bernadette Heier | Feb 20, 2025 | News, Outstanding Operators
Food On Demand is recognizing gtk (ghost truck kitchen) as an Outstanding Operator. In 2017, Andrew Martino, the founder and CEO of gtk, recognized a gap in the restaurant space. At the time, delivery food and takeout options hadn’t evolved much beyond Chinese...
by Adam Wahlberg | Feb 11, 2025 | News, Outstanding Operators
Potbelly is a Food On Demand Outstanding Operator. Potbelly is known for its Wreck sandwiches, which are vertically layered creations of Everest proportions. But wreck doesn’t describe the year it had in 2024. Heck yes is more like it. Its digital and off-premises...
by Bernadette Heier | May 2, 2024 | News, Outstanding Operators
GoTo Foods is Food On Demand’s next Outstanding Operator The multi-brand platform is being recognized for implementing strategies to best manage and grow the off-premises side of each of its seven brands, while building and integrating technologies to streamline...