{"id":18432,"date":"2020-01-31T09:24:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=13245"},"modified":"2020-01-31T09:24:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:24:40","slug":"datatrac-restaurant-foodservice-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/01\/datatrac-restaurant-foodservice-10-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Restaurant &amp; Foodservice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 FoodFirst Global Restaurants Inc. (24) <\/strong>has announced that CEO and Chairman Brad Blum has resigned, but will remain an owner of the company. Steve Layt has been hired as his replacement in the CEO role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Paris Baguette USA Inc. (9) <\/strong>has named Pete Bell Chief Marketing Officer. This comes on the heels of Jack Moran being moved to the position of Global CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Mergers &amp; Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Chopt Creative Salad Co.<\/strong> has acquired Dos Toros Taqueria and the two have been combined into a new holding company called <strong>Founders Table Restaurant Group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 KFC Corporation<\/strong> is bringing improved beyond meat chicken to 70 stores located in Nashville and Charlotte. This move comes after a successful test of the meatless chicken in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 McDonald&#8217;s Corporation <\/strong>is attempting to take on the dominance of <strong>Chick-fil-A Franchise <\/strong>by introducing its own chicken breakfast sandwiches. The two types currently available are the Chicken McGriddles and the McChicken Biscuit. This move comes after many franchisees have been asking for a new breakfast item.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Benihana Inc.<\/strong> has opened a new location in Miami, FL.\u00a0 The location is a new restaurant that is opening at a site that housed a Benihana from years past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Dave&#8217;s Hot Chicken <\/strong>has opened its third location in Los Angeles, CA. The chain also plans to open 12 more restaurants this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Farmer Boys Food Inc.<\/strong> has opened a new location in Thousand Oaks, CA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Zaxby&#8217;s Franchising Inc<\/strong>. has announced that its second location in Brooksville, FL is now open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022 FoodFirst Global Restaurants Inc. (24) has announced that CEO and Chairman Brad Blum has resigned, but will remain an owner of the company. Steve Layt has been hired as his replacement in the CEO role. \u2022 Paris Baguette USA Inc. (9) has named Pete Bell Chief Marketing Officer. This comes on the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/01\/datatrac-restaurant-foodservice-10-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Restaurant &amp; Foodservice<\/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-18432","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\/18432","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=18432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}