by Laura Michaels | May 12, 2022 | News, Top Stories
Remember when Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings drew the ire of some customers after it was discovered the virtual brand was really Chuck E. Cheese in disguise? Applebee’s, too, came under fire for the Neighborhood Wings menu it rolled out on Grubhub, but that reaction is...
by Arthur Robert | Nov 12, 2021 | Best Practices, News, Third-Party Delivery
“Virtual restaurants are all about search engine optimization,” said Aaron Noveshen, CEO of Starbird, and founder and chairman of The Culinary Edge, a leading restaurant consulting company. Nowhere is that more evident than in Starbird’s virtual branding. “Our brand...
by Tom Kaiser | Jul 15, 2021 | Best Practices, COVID-19, News, Top Stories
After soaring through the pandemic, Starbird has dramatically scaled up its small footprint and grown same-store sales 36 percent during the first half of 2021 as it begins to franchise the upscale fast-food brick-and-mortar brand, which also includes four successful...