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Pizza Hut to Temporarily Close 500 Stores for Re-brand

Fortune 500 company Yum! Brands, parent company of Pizza Hut has announced that they will temporarily close nearly 500 hundred under-performing Pizza Hut locations. Yum! Brands is one of the world’s largest food companies, they have some 43,617 restaurants in over 135 countries and operates the brands Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and WingStreet. The CFO and COO of Yum!

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Sintel System's Self Serve Kiosk Innovations

Forbes recently released an article discussing how self service kiosks are finally catching on with customers. They cited a 2019 survey that showed 25% of restaurant customers have used a self ordering kiosk at a restaurant within the past three months—up 7% year-over-year. Furthermore, 65% of customers said they would visit a restaurant more often if self serve kiosks were offered, and

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Omni Channel Options: The Rise of Purchase Online, Pick Up at the Store

We’ve reached the next evolution of omni channel options in the retail industry: stores that are solely for pickup and don’t actually sell anything. Giant retailer Walmart is planning to open physical stores in population dense areas that are for pick up only. In July, Walmart opened a 40,000 square-foot prototype store (by comparison Walmart Super

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Bite Sized Restaurant Industry Happenings # 3

More interesting tidbits currently happening in the restaurant and retail industries: • Remember Amazon Dash gadgets? They were plastic buttons to press to order a specific product such as Doritos or Tide. Dash never took off the way Amazon hoped it would. Amazon’s already stopped selling them and has now announced all Dash buttons globally will stop working on Aug.

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Giant Athletic Retailer Nike's Omni Channel Transformation

Often we blog about how e-commerce titans such as Amazon or digital food delivery services such as Postmates seek to provide omni channel options to busy customers. This time, let’s discuss how omni channel ideas are being used a completely different retail industry, shoes and exercise gear. Fitness giant Nike began in 1964 as the Blue

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Ride Sharing Service Uber's New Subscription Program!

This week, ride share startup Uber quietly rolled out out a monthly subscription pass that would allow access to several Uber products: rides, scooters, bikes and food. The multi services subscription pass, which costs $24.99 per month, offers a 5% discount on rides, free Uber Eats delivery and free rides on JUMP bikes and scooters. The service is

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Coffee Giant Starbucks' Tech Investment

Starbucks—the world’s largest coffee chain, with more than 30,000 location is investing in digital technology company Brightloom to improve customer convenience. Brightloom, which launched in 2015 under the earlier name eatsa, makes various efficiency based softwares including mobile apps, digital payments and shelves with integrated displays. Starbucks’s investment in Brightloom is significant, but neither company has disclosed the specific

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Fast Food Giant Burger King's Meatless Burger Guessing Game

Burger King in Sweden is issuing a challenge to customers. As part of a promotional campaign for its plant-based offerings, Burger King restaurants in Sweden are daring their customers to order from theirs new “50/50 menu,” meaning that Burger King will randomly decide whether customers get a meat or meatless burger. “We are really proud

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