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What is a Ghost Kitchen? Winning Models, Trends, and Opportunities

Apicbase

Indeed, they have been around for over a decade: a NYT article from 2019 dates them back at least to 2013. This model expands #3, where a commissary kitchen (the hub) preps food, delivering semi-finished products to multiple locations (the spokes) that give the final touches, collect orders, and deliver them to customers.

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7 Women F&B Leaders That are Driving Positive Change Across The World

The Restaurant Times

Kate led the company’s multi-billion dollar businesses across seven different brands and all operating divisions, including franchising, company operations, licensing, and international divisions through global licensing, manufacturing, and e-commerce. Jennifer Schuler, CEO, Wetzel’s Pretzels. increase in same-store sales.

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Powerhouse Women in the Kitchen

Sante

After moving to Miami from Tampa to enroll at Johnson and Wales University in 2009, Chef Braddock quickly discovered that she would benefit more from hands-on experience that comes from being thrust into a busy kitchen. It was here that she was allowed full creative license and quickly asserted her unique style into Serfer’s menus.

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Feast on Sushi, Steak, and Globalization at Iraq’s American-Themed Buffet

EATER

license plates; a neon-accented diner serving fast food; and a McDonald’s-style playground. ABC Velp began attracting customers from near and far, including an Iraqi Christian named Nawzad Martani, who stumbled upon the restaurant in 2013 to celebrate his brother’s birthday. Just like Eric Meurs, Martani was impressed. “I

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How can coffee shops expand into other international markets?

Perfect Daily Grind

Customer-facing specialty coffee businesses are generally differentiated from more “commercial” brands by their focus on quality. Alexandros says that the company rebranded in 2013 and then entered its first international market in 2016 when it opened a coffee shop in the UK. Read on to find out what they had to say.

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Pizza Technology Growing at an Accelerated Pace?

Aaron Allen & Associates

Slice created an app and acquired a POS company (now “Slice Register”) to create a multichannel experience and help level the playing field for independents. The company is using licensing to expand from Canada to the U.S. Customers in a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, can request their pizza is delivered by R2.

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MRM Franchise Feed: White Castle’s 25-Year Club and Cheddar Weather

Modern Restaurant Management

The family-owned business has thrown star-studded virtual parties and showered customers with giveaways galore. “My great-grandfather, Billy, believed that happy employees make happy customers, and that has remained our core focus for 100 years,” said Lisa Ingram. Overall U.S.

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