{"id":18376,"date":"2019-04-24T12:21:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=12050"},"modified":"2019-04-24T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:21:28","slug":"datatrac-restaurant-foodservice-april-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/04\/datatrac-restaurant-foodservice-april-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Restaurant & Foodservice \u2013 April 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0Black Bear Diners Inc<\/strong>. (18)<\/strong> has promoted Anita Adams to CFO and President. Steve Standlea is now the company\u2019s COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Bojangles\u2019 Restaurants Inc<\/strong>. (33)<\/strong> has named Jackie Woodward as its new Chief Marketing Officer. She succeeds Randy Poindexter who announced that he would retire on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0CKE Restaurants Inc<\/strong>. (58)<\/strong> has promoted Ned Lyerly to CEO, succeeding Jason Marker.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dickey\u2019s Barbecue Pit Restaurants Inc<\/strong>. (19)<\/strong> has promoted Jay Rooney to the position of CFO, a new role at the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Doctor’s Associates Inc<\/strong>. (88)<\/strong> has named Mike Macrie as Subway\u2019s new CIO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dutch Bros. Coffee (16)<\/strong> announced the company\u2019s first Chief Marketing Officer, Rick Anguilla.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0El Pollo Loco Inc<\/strong>. (20)<\/strong> announced Miguel Lozano will join the company as COO. He replaces Gus Siade, former Senior VP of Operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Farmer Boys Food Inc<\/strong>. (13)<\/strong> has appointed Arlene Estrada Petokas as its new VP and Chief People Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Fuzzy\u2019s Taco Shop (20)<\/strong> has named Michael Mabry as its first Fuzzy\u2019s Taco Shop.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Inspire Brands (21)<\/strong> has named Raghu Sagi as its new CIO. He replaces Darla Morse, who is leaving to become CIO at CKE Restaurants<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kona Grill Inc<\/strong>. (9)<\/strong> announced its CEO Marcus Jundt is resigning. The company has named CFO Christi Hing as interim CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Little Caesar Enterprises Inc<\/strong>. (45)<\/strong> has promoted Edward Gleich to the new position of Chief Innovation Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Modern Restaurant Concepts (9)<\/strong> has promoted VP of Operations Robin Robison to COO of Modern Market Eatery.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The ONE Group LLC (16)<\/strong> has promoted Tyler Loy to the position of CFO. He replaces interim CFO Linda Siluk, who was named Chief Administrative Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Papa John\u2019s International Inc<\/strong>. (32)<\/strong> announced the appointment of Karlin Linhardt as the chain\u2019s new Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc<\/strong>. (27) <\/strong>announced Beverly Carmichael its Chief People, Culture and Resource Officer has resigned. The company also said Denny Marie Post was retiring as President and CEO, and board chair Pattye Moore would serve as Interim CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Salata Inc<\/strong>. (7) <\/strong>announced it has named David Wheeler to the newly created position of Chief Development Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Stoner\u2019s Pizza Joint (4)<\/strong> has named Glenn Cybulski as the brand\u2019s new President and Chief Culinary Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Trader Vic\u2019s Restaurants Inc<\/strong>. (6)<\/strong> has promoted Rhett Rosen to the role of CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0True Food Kitchen (38)<\/strong> announced it has named Shannon Keller as it\u2019s the first-ever Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Union Square Hospitality Group (58)<\/strong> has named Chip Wade President of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Vitality Bowls (5)<\/strong> has named Dave Malinowski as COO.<\/p>\n

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Mergers & Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0Bessemer Investment Partners LLC<\/strong> has acquired 73 Taco Bell restaurants in Texas as part of an asset sale with Houston-based KorMex Foods<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0CEC Entertainment Inc<\/strong>. has agreed to merge with Leo Holdings Corp. with the intent of going public again later this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0McDonald\u2019s Corporation <\/strong>announced it has purchased Dynamic Yield Ltd., a technology company that specializes in personalization and decision logic technology.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Papa Murphy\u2019s International Inc<\/strong>. announced a merger with Canadian franchisor MTY Food Group Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0Bloomin\u2019 Brands Inc<\/strong>. expects to open the first U.S. unit of Aussie Grill, a fast-casual food-court version of its casual-dining Outback Steakhouse in Tampa, FL this month.<\/p>\n

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Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0Domino\u2019s Pizza Inc<\/strong>. has announced the launch of its 10,000th international store.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0FIC Restaurants<\/strong> recently closed 23 corporate-owned Friendly\u2019s restaurants leaving the chain with 174 locations. The closures included 14 restaurants in New York, three in Massachusetts, three in Connecticut, two in New Hampshire and one in Maine.<\/p>\n

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Just because we don\u2019t mention it here doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t happen \u2013 or we didn\u2019t capture it. In the past four weeks, we\u2019ve updated more than 1,066 companies in the Restaurant Franchisee Premier Database, <\/strong>with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Personnel Updates \u2022\u00a0Black Bear Diners Inc. (18) has promoted Anita Adams to CFO and President. Steve Standlea is now the company\u2019s COO. \u2022\u00a0Bojangles\u2019 Restaurants Inc. (33) has named Jackie Woodward as its new Chief Marketing Officer. She succeeds Randy Poindexter who announced that he would retire on Aug. 1. \u2022\u00a0CKE Restaurants Inc. (58) has promoted… Continue reading DATATRAC: Restaurant & Foodservice \u2013 April 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-18376","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\/18376","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=18376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}