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New podcast: The Week in Restaurants

The Week in Restaurants: This week’s podcast features a discussion on In-N-Out’s move to Tennessee, the potential sale of Dave’s Hot Chicken, low-income consumers and a big restaurant technology blind spot.

Welcome to the latest podcast from the crack team at Restaurant Business: The Week in Restaurants. 

The podcast will feature a discussion on the week’s biggest stories in the industry by RB editors, led by myself, along with other features highlighting other topics and some previews of what’s to come.

This week, Executive Editor Lisa Jennings and I discuss In-N-Out’s move to Tennessee. The burger chain is moving some workers to its second headquarters and we discuss the real reasons for that move. 

We also talk about lower-income consumers, who appear to be shying away from restaurants early this year.

And we talk about the potential sale of Dave’s Hot Chicken, which has apparently hired an investment bank and could seek $1 billion. 

Meanwhile, Senior Technology Editor Joe Guszkowski talks about a rather large blind spot when it comes to restaurant technology. 

Check it out. 

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