{"id":18373,"date":"2019-03-26T16:52:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=11855"},"modified":"2019-03-26T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:52:46","slug":"datatrac-restaurant-foodservice-march-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/03\/datatrac-restaurant-foodservice-march-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Restaurant &amp; Foodservice \u2013 March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Cousins Sub Systems Inc. (14)<\/strong> has promoted CFO Jason Westhoff to President. In addition, J.J. Grube has been promoted to VP Finance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Alexander\u2019s Holdings LLC (13)<\/strong> announced it is promoting CFO Mark Parkey to CEO and President, succeeding Lonnie J. Stout II. Jessica Hagler was promoted to CFO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Wingstop Restaurants Inc<\/strong>.<strong> (93)<\/strong> has named Maurice Cooper to the new position of Chief Growth and Experience Officer, while also continuing his duties as Chief Marketing Officer. The company also named Kevin Fish to Senior VP Digital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Women&#8217;s Foodservice Forum<\/strong> <strong>(3) <\/strong>announced that Hattie Hill, CEO and president, will be retiring. She will continue to serve until a successor is hired.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Del Frisco\u2019s Restaurant Group Inc<\/strong>. over the past year has closed and sold off a number of restaurants and plans no new openings in the next two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Papa John\u2019s International Inc<\/strong>. has partnered with DoorDash to expand third-party delivery to 1,400 restaurants nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Starbucks <\/strong><strong>Corporation<\/strong> will test recyclable and compostable cups over the next year at locations in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, and Vancouver, British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Technology<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Jack in the Box Inc<\/strong>. is releasing it\u2019s first-ever customer mobile app. Users will have one-tap functionality to place orders in advance and pay using their mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Just because we don\u2019t mention it here doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t happen \u2013 or we didn\u2019t capture it.\u00a0<strong>In the past four weeks, we\u2019ve updated more than 896 companies in the Restaurant Franchisee Premier Database,\u00a0<\/strong>with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022\u00a0Cousins Sub Systems Inc. (14) has promoted CFO Jason Westhoff to President. In addition, J.J. Grube has been promoted to VP Finance. \u2022\u00a0Alexander\u2019s Holdings LLC (13) announced it is promoting CFO Mark Parkey to CEO and President, succeeding Lonnie J. Stout II. Jessica Hagler was promoted to CFO. \u2022\u00a0Wingstop Restaurants Inc. (93) has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/03\/datatrac-restaurant-foodservice-march-2019-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Restaurant &amp; Foodservice \u2013 March 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-18373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurant-foodservice","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}