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MRM Franchise Feed: Franchising for Heroes and Shaq-a-Roni for Charity

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Specifically, AAG is being recognized for its overall commitment to brand success, operational excellence, guest service and community involvement. FFH’s third program, Investment in Heroes, gives non-service members the chance to partner with a hero to become a franchise owner or invest in a hero as an operational partner.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

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Customers simply approach Ono’s ordering kiosk, place their custom order, and watch as robotic systems create their blends from scratch. Quality Control – Ono can ensure orders are to the customers' standards 100 percent of the time. Within 60 seconds, blends are ready at Ono’s pick-up area.

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

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Having a strategy for plant-based is now a business imperative–your customers want it and your competitors are doing it. Qdoba Mexican Eats’ nation-wide Impossible Foods launch in 2019 made it a standout, with the restaurant chain allowing customers to add Impossible Foods’ plant-based meat to any of its core dishes.

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MRM Franchise Feed: CPK’s Franchise Momentum and Rex’s Rebuilds

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Under Minardi’s leadership, CPK sees significant opportunities to add to the company’s presence in Asia with a focus on Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Malaysia. Giorgio Minardi. Expansion in the Middle East, Australia, and Europe will also be additional areas of focus starting in 2020. starting Nov.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Bad Ass Gets Bigger and New Prototype for Bagel Boss

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“We felt very comfortable throughout our evaluation process with Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii because they share the same values in business and customer relationship that we do at Rothwell Development,” said Cody Rothwell, President of Rothwell Development Company, LLC. 1 coffee hub in Tennessee,” Cody Rothwell.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

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In 2001, Bill was promoted to Vice President of Operations overseeing TSFR’s 60 Burger King restaurants; in 2003 he was promoted to Executive Vice President of Operations, Training & Development and Human Resources; in 2006, Bill was promoted to Chief Operating Officer adding the Del Taco brand to his responsibilities.

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MRM People & Places: Azteca Foods Celebrates 50 Years and State Dish Showdown

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Azteca also supplies freshly made products to the Food Service and Industrial channels. Our customers, suppliers, brokers, and ultimately our consumers who brought us to their dinner tables for decades. “We owe many thanks to our Azteca family,” said the Velasquez’s.

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