National Restaurant Show Canceled, Dog Haus Absolute, Pickup Pods and Melt It Forward

This edition of MRM News Bites features the National Restaurant Association, Absolute Brands, Bacardi, Tito's Vodka, Yum! Brands, Mount Franklin Foods, US Foods, Melt Shop, FoodMaven, Nathan's Famous, Island's Fine Burgers & Drinks, Checkers & Rally’s, Lineage Logistics and Minnow.National Restaurant Association Show CanceledThe 2020 National Restaurant Association Show, which we had planned to hold in Chicago on May 16-19, has officially been canceled. 

The following message was shared with the Restaurant Show community on behalf of Winsight LLC CEO, Mike Wood, and National Restaurant Association Interim President and CEO, Marvin Irby: "We recognize the critical importance of the Show to the industry and we know that this will come as a disappointment to those who had planned for months to attend. While it is not the outcome we wanted, amid all the uncertainty around the COVID-19 pandemic and the immense strain it has put our industry, the safety of our attendees…