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Checkers Drive-In Restaurants

Leadership

Frances Allen is stepping down as Checkers & Rally's CEO

 By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 04, 2024

The chief executive guided the drive-thru fast-food restaurant chains through the pandemic, restructuring and its sale last year to a trio of investment firms. A search is on for her successor.

Marketing

Forget Threads. Casual restaurants are going retro in their latest marketing

 By Peter Romeo on Jul. 12, 2023

Reality Check: 3-for-$10 (or thereabouts) and buy one/take one home deals are back in vogue.

Financing

Restructuring gives control of Checkers to its lenders

By Jonathan Maze on Jun. 20, 2023

Arbour Lane Capital Management, Garnett Station Partners and Guggenheim Investments are taking majority ownership in a deal that will cut back on the fast-food chain’s debt.

Financing

Lenders agree to give Checkers/Rally's more time to refinance debt

By Lisa Jennings on Apr. 21, 2023

Loans were due on April 24, but now Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc. will have more time to build on the momentum of its business.

Financing

Checkers, citing inflation, looks to refinance its debt

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 24, 2023

The operator of drive-thru restaurants has reportedly hired advisers to help it restructure its debt, which comes due next year.

Financing

Checkers and Rally’s franchisee buys 30 restaurants

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 24, 2022

Falcons Burger is acquiring the locations from a retiring operator, becoming the burger chain’s biggest franchisee in the process.

Financing

Checkers and Rally’s turn to unit growth

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 28, 2022

The drive-thru chains expect to add 60 locations this year after signing deals on both coasts.

Technology

With automated drive-thrus, Checkers gives glimpse at future of fast food

By Joe Guszkowski on Jan. 19, 2022

Tech Check: The drive-thru helped QSRs thrive during the pandemic, but it’s also ripe for change.

Technology

Sensing a longer-term labor problem, Checkers turns to technology

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 10, 2022

The company is adding voice-activated ordering this year, among other steps it hopes will improve the job of running its restaurants.

Financing

Checkers has the upper hand in a drive-thru future

By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 20, 2021

Frances Allen, CEO of the drive-thru burger chain, joins this week’s episode of the RB podcast “A Deeper Dive” to talk about the industry’s challenges and the chain’s growth strategies.

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