Marketing
Mark Mears joins Saladworks, at least temporarily
The former CMO of Cheesecake and Noodles & Co. is joining fellow Schlotzsky’s alumnus Kelly Roddy to facilitate expansion.
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.
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