Home Chef Startup WoodSpoon Launches Catering Business
WoodSpoon, the New York City-based company that connects home chefs with hungry diners, is launching a new catering service. The company is framing the new service as a way for companies to lure work from home employees back to the office with home-cooked meals. “It...
Square Survey Explores 2022 for the Restaurant Industry
Square’s 2022 Future of Restaurants report offers a glimpse into just how acute the restaurant labor shortage is. The big number: 21 percent of restaurant positions are unfilled, according to the report, while 73 percent of restaurants reported experiencing a labor...
Three Big Brands Share Off-Premises Strategies at FODC
Five Guys, Jack in the Box and 7-Eleven are very different brands with unique products, storefronts and footprints, but they occupy common ground in their need to work with franchisees to rethink their operations as delivery and off-premises operations become a bigger...
Delivery/Dine-In Hybrid Opens In Chicago
Epic Kitchens, a new dine-in and delivery hybrid, opened its first restaurant in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood earlier this month. The location combines four franchise brands—Pokéworks, 800 Degrees, BurgerFi, and Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken—under one roof. Epic...
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