Taco Bell fans rejoice! Taco Bell has expanded its partnership with T-Mobile for another quirky promotion. Just recently we reported on the ‘The Bell’ a Taco Bell resort open for a short period in Palm Springs, CA this summer. Well, get ready for T-MoBell. Next week, July 23 through July 25 Taco Bell and cell […]
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Today, fast food giant McDonald’s announced that it’s partnering with DoorDash. The company hopes to widen the reach of its McDelivery service to customers. McDelivery with DoorDash will start on July 29 with 200 locations in Houston, Texas. McDonald’s will also be added as an ordering option to DoorDash’s monthly subscription service, DashPass. Nearly a million DashPass members pay
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Today it was announced that the U.S. Department of Labor has awarded the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) a $4.5 million grant to launch a new training program for young adults who have been in the justice system and served time. This is the largest grant ever received by the NRAEF. The program is
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More interesting tidbits currently happening in the restaurant and retail industries: • NYC had a massive power outage on Saturday 7/13. The blackout, which started around 7 pm lasted until midnight, trapping people on the Subway, closing restaurants, halting Broadway shows, etc. No word yet on what causes the power outage. This illustrates exactly why using
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Retail giant Walmart is using virtual reality headsets to assess which employees have the aptitude for middle management positions. For the past 3 years, Walmart has been working with STRIVR, an immersive performance training startup company to design and manage Walmart’s virtual reality training using $250 Oculus Go VR headsets. (Oculus is owned by social
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Yesterday e-commerce giant Amazon announced a plan to invest $700+ million over the next 6 years to retrain 100,000 employees of its U.S. workforce. The education will help workers move into more advanced roles across various segments of the company including corporate offices, tech hubs and fulfillment centers. Amazon’s goal is to improve the skills
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Recently we discussed how Chick-fil-A is now the 3rd-largest restaurant chain in America, according to the Nation’s Restaurant News analysis published in June. However, we thought we should mention some of the fastest growing restaurant chains in America, many of which also appeared on the list, but due to their current size of the chain
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McDonald’s has a chicken sandwich problem, namely Chick-Fil-A’s signature fried chicken sandwich. Yesterday, the board of the National Owners Association (NOA) sent an email to McDonald’s calling for the chain to create a southern style chicken sandwich to compete with Chick-fil-A. NOA was created in 2018 and consists of more than 400 U.S.-based McDonald’s franchisees.
Recently a robotics startup company called Dishcraft announced that they’ve created the first automated dish room. The setup relies on AI, robotics and machine learning to clean. Commercial kitchens deal with high turnover on a regular basis and generally the quickest position to turn over is dishwasher. It’s a hot, strenuous, stressful and repetitive job
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At the end of June property management giant CBRE put out the second installment of their ‘Food in Demand’ report which examines the state of the US grocery industry and how changes will impact industry players and their real estate strategies. The report considers all non restaurant food stores as ‘grocery’ so that means markets, convenience stores, warehouse
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