CEO Flynn Dekker said the 87-year-old restaurant company has put pieces in place to modernize the brand, including online ordering and a marketing co-op.
Restaurant companies are bullish on unit development and marketing for 2024, in what is expected to be a return to normalization* (*relatively speaking).
The legally and financially fraught rotisserie chicken brand also announced that the company would be introducing new global menu items every six weeks
Executives at ICR Conference cite inroads into restaurant refranchising and goal of becoming a more asset-light company
Kiosks, TikTok, and refranchising are all critical to the restaurant company’s growth
FAT Brands chairman Andy Wiederhorn talked at the ICR conference about converting Smokey Bones restaurants to Twin Peaks; Twin Peaks IPO and more
Skip Russell sold all of his Popeyes restaurants and came out of retirement to start franchising anew with his first Newk’s Eatery restaurant
California raised its minimum wage to $16 an hour, while fast food workers must be paid $20 an hour starting April 1, as the modified FAST Act takes effect
Casual-dining brand agrees to deal with Ray Blanchette as it shutters underperforming locations
