Restaurants Build Empires with Brand Licensing

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Jane is a mother of three. She’s responsible for grocery shopping in her household. Since it’s Taco Tuesday, her shopping cart practically rolls itself into aisle seven — the Mexican aisle. Unfortunately, her main choices have been the same for years: Old El Paso and Ortego. The food is good, but uninspiring. On one hand,… read more

Gaylord Industries Adds Brad Reifschneider to Sales Team

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Gaylord Industries hired Brad Reifschneider as its regional sales manager, Northeast. His responsibilities include regional sales and business development along the East Coast. Reifschneider’s background includes foodservice equipment and sales experience with such manufacturers as Doyon & Nu-Vu Bakery Equipment, Redco Foodservice Equipment, and Unilever Foodsolutions. – Source: Foodservice Equipment and Supplies     To… read more

Plant-Based Pizza and Ice Cream Spot Virtuous Pie Opens Saturday

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“We’re not here to imitate. We’re here to create our own style of pizza,” says Jim Vesal, the executive chef of Vancouver, B.C.-based Virtuous Pie. Founded in 2015, Virtuous Pie will open its first location in Portland (and second location overall) this Saturday, June 10, at 1126 SE Division St. The honed menu (see below) features… read more

Whopper and Timbits Don’t Mesh, Says Burger King Chief

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Restaurant Brands International Inc. — the fast-food empire that owns Burger King, Tim Hortons and now Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen — plans to keep the divisions separate, with no mixing of menu items. Despite Restaurants Brands’ reputation for scooping up businesses and squeezing costs, it doesn’t see product synergies between the chains, said Chief Executive Officer… read more

McDonald’s to Hire More U.S. Workers this Summer, Some via Snapchat

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McDonald’s said it will hire more U.S. workers this summer to staff french fry stations and cash registers, and it will bring in a new way to apply in an effort to draw in more young applicants. The world’s largest burger chain said the company and its franchisees will hire about 250,000 people across its… read more

Global Foodservice News – June 15, 2017 Edition

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To Our Valued Subscribers, With the NHL (Congratulations Penguins’) and NBA (Congratulations Golden State) seasons now completed, the sporting world now turn its attention to America’s past time, baseball. My World Series Champion Cubs (yes, I will use this until they are no longer World Series Champions, it only took 108 years!!) are only 1… read more

Fund Started by Former McDonald’s CEO Acquires PizzaRev

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Don Thompson is getting into the pizza business. Cleveland Avenue LLC, a Chicago-based accelerator that invests in restaurant, food and beverage concepts, has acquired a majority stake in the fast-casual pizza chain PizzaRev. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “This is more than investment; this is a partnership,” Thompson said in a statement. “Our… read more

Red Robin Outlines Strategy Amid Casual-Dining Tumult

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Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc. is overhauling its operations, redefining service, adding off-premise alternatives and reconsidering mall locations as it faces a challenging casual-dining market, executives said. At the Greenwood Village, Colo.-based company’s first investor day in more than three years, Red Robin executives said many of its restaurants share the traffic declines in big-box… read more

Introducing The White Castle of the Future

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Along with MG2, White Castle’s new restaurant prototype will include outdoor seating and flexible indoor-outdoor convertible dining areas. It will also be designed around a digital experience and “omnichannel customer journey,” to enhance mobile POS ordering and provide an interactive drive-thru experience. “We needed help creating a flagship White Castle experience as distinctive as the… read more

Talking Millennial Myths at the NRA Show

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“Much of what you’ve heard about millennials is absolutely wrong,” said Jason Dorsey, a statement that caused many in the crowd, largely made up of restaurant owners, to sit up in their seats. Speaking today during the National Restaurant Association Show, Dorsey, co-founder of millennial and Gen Z research firm The Center for Generational Kinetics,… read more