{"id":18438,"date":"2020-02-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=13282"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:00:00","slug":"datatrac-restaurant-foodservice-12-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/02\/datatrac-restaurant-foodservice-12-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Restaurant &amp; Foodservice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Coolgreens (9) <\/strong>has appointed Mary Beth McGehee to the newly created position of VP of Business Development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Del Taco Restaurants Inc. (34)<\/strong> has appointed Tim Hackbardt as Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Taco Bell Corp. (51) <\/strong>has announced that Nikki Lawson will be joining the company as Global Chief Brand Officer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Financial Focus<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 SD Holdings <\/strong>has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They are currently planning to sell their 73 Sonic locations back to <strong>Sonic Corp. <\/strong>It is still unclear what will happen to their 3 Fuzzy Tacos locations and their 14 <strong>MOD Pizza<\/strong> locations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Another Broken Egg of America Inc. <\/strong>has opened a new location in Flowood, MS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Crave Hot Dogs &amp; Barbecue <\/strong>opened a new location in Summerwood, TX.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Curry Up Now<\/strong> has opened its 11<sup>th<\/sup> location in Sacramento, CA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 MOOYAH Franchise LLC<\/strong> has announced that it is opening a new location in Hoover, AL. This location will also be the first restaurant to feature the company\u2019s re-designed interior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Mountain Mike&#8217;s Pizza <\/strong>has opened a new location in Redding, CA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 The Lost Cajun <\/strong>is opening a new location in Mount Juliet, TN.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Technology<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 CaliBurger, LLC <\/strong>is reporting a successful testing of its new burger automation system. Certain restaurants are outfitted with a robotic arm named Flippy that takes care of all burger grilling orders along with ordering kiosks that uses facial recognition. Flippy is designed to create a consistent product and allow employees to spend more time with customers. So far the tests have been a success for the burger chain and they may implement the technology in future stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022 Coolgreens (9) has appointed Mary Beth McGehee to the newly created position of VP of Business Development. \u2022 Del Taco Restaurants Inc. (34) has appointed Tim Hackbardt as Chief Marketing Officer. \u2022 Taco Bell Corp. (51) has announced that Nikki Lawson will be joining the company as Global Chief Brand Officer. &nbsp;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/02\/datatrac-restaurant-foodservice-12-2\/\">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-18438","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\/18438","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=18438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}