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On the sudden pullback of Salad and Go

The Week in Restaurants: This week’s episode of the restaurant news discussion podcast features a look at the closures at the salad chain, Cracker Barrel’s traffic declines and a big distributor merger.

Another growth chain is de-growing.

This week’s episode of the Restaurant Businss podcast The Week in Restaurants looks at the 41 restaurant closures of Salad and Go, which is more than a quarter of the drive-thru chain’s locations. We discuss why the chain is closing those locations. 

We also talk Cracker Barrel, which gave us a peek at the fallout from their rebranding blowup. 

US Foods and Performance Food Group may well try a merger. We talk about whether that has any real chance. 

All that plus an FSTEC wrapup on this week’s Tech Check. 

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