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Peter Romeo

Editor at Large

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Peter Romeo

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Operations

How DoorDash’s ghost kitchen works

DoorDash Kitchens provides customized kitchen space for five restaurant operations that offer delivery and pickup services through DoorDash’s app.

Operations

Taco Bell pulls 2.3M pounds of ground beef

The seasoned meat was suspected of being contaminated with metal shavings.

Financing

Tilted Kilt parent buys WingHouse

Arc Group will now have a second wings concept operating alongside Dick's Wings & Grill.

Financing

Mall developer buys a piece of Pinstripes

As part of the deal, Simon Property will provide the food and entertainment chain with leases to three locations, with more to follow.

Operations

DoorDash opens a ghost kitchen

The delivery service opened its first DoorDash Kitchens to provide pickup and delivery meals for four brick-and-mortar operations in Northern California.

Marketing

Now on aisle 5: More restaurant-licensed retail products

A growing list of chains are turning to licensing as a way of building brand awareness and generating revenues.

Leadership

Foodservice Packaging Institute names a president

Natha Dempsey will move up from VP to take the leadership role.

Operations

Whole Foods plans to open a food hall

The dining destination, the bottom floor of a new supermarket, is one of several ways the retailer is hoping to eat restaurants’ lunch.

Workforce

New tip pooling, tip credit rules proposed by DOL

Opening tip pools to kitchen staffers would be permitted if a tip credit isn’t taken, and the 80/20 rule would be dashed.

Operations

Investigation finds source of Focus’ data breach

Coding was inserted into the servers of Moe’s, McAlister’s and Schlotzsky’s to copy credit card information while on-premise transactions were being processed.

Operations

Johnny Rockets takes off overseas

The quintessentially American concept has become a global brand.

Food

European tariffs could raise cost of many restaurant supplies

Imports ranging from whiskey to cheese would be subject to a 25% surcharge.

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