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Financing

How robots will change the restaurant business

RB's podcast, "A Deeper Dive," explores the influx of technology in restaurants, with Results Thru Strategy’s Fred LeFranc.

Financing

Breakwater Management invests nearly $20.9M in The Madera Group

The investment will help the company expand Tocaya Organica and Toca Madera.

The former Starbucks executive is tasked with expanding the chain nationwide.

A report suggests bidders are backing off a complete purchase, which sent the company’s stock sinking, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

The company will let some franchisees wait until 2021 or 2022 to complete store overhauls.

The decline, according to Debtwire, has come just a year after the chain was sold.

But both brands have seen same-store sales slowdowns in recent years, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

Bill DiPaola was named chief operating officer and Leslie Monson was named CMO of the operator of PJ’s Coffee.

Despite some big crowds, more people are staying home to shop this season, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

After tests, the company is launching the service in Los Angeles and Houston through DoorDash.

Customers flocked to chicken and steak chains and away from sports bars, according to the latest Technomic Chain Restaurant Index.

The company has named Jim Ilaria to be his successor.

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