{"id":19305,"date":"2026-08-14T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=19305"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:36:15","slug":"in-other-business-news-260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2026\/08\/in-other-business-news-260\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; Convenience Stores<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/t-CSG_Sales_Leads.aspx?utm_source=newsroom&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=inside_ad&amp;utm_content=Offthechain_Core_ad2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/morewaystoconnect2021_300x300.png\" alt=\"Free Trial\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u2022 <strong>Uncle Giuseppe&#8217;s Marketplace <\/strong>opened its Greenvale, N.Y., store at Wheatley Plaza on Aug. 14, continuing the grocer\u2019s Long Island expansion and adding roughly 250 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong id=\"link_united\">United Natural Foods Inc<\/strong>. (UNFI) named Alfredo Luchini Chief Financial Officer effective Aug. 10; Giorgio Matteo Tarditi moved from Chief Financial Officer to President and Chief Operating Officer as part of the company\u2019s leadership restructuring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Cheba Hut<\/strong> opened a new restaurant in Clarksville, Tenn., on Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Chicken Salad Chick<\/strong> announced its first Greater Cleveland-area restaurant in Fairview Park, Ohio, with an Aug. 25 opening planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong id=\"link_mo\">Mo&#8217; Bettahs Hawaiian Style Food<\/strong> opened a new restaurant in Argyle, Texas, on Aug. 14, extending the brand\u2019s North Texas footprint.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Mountain Mike&#8217;s Pizza<\/strong> reported two franchise agreements calling for six new restaurants across Queen Creek, Ariz., and South Carolina, expanding the brand\u2019s development pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Raising Cane&#8217;s<\/strong> opened a new restaurant in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Aug. 10 and reopened its remodeled College Station, Texas, restaurant on Aug. 12 as part of its August development schedule.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Destination XL<\/strong> Group transitioned Board Chairman Lionel Conacher into the Interim Chief Executive Officer role as Harvey Kanter retired from the Chief Executive Officer position effective Aug. 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong id=\"link_owens\">Owens Corning<\/strong> appointed Jonathan Collins Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective Aug. 10; Todd Fister moved into the President and Chief Operating Officer role.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong id=\"link_target\">Target<\/strong> named Chandhu Nair its first Chief AI Officer in an Aug. 11 leadership announcement; Purvi Shah was also elevated to Senior Vice President of User Experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; Convenience Stores \u2022 Uncle Giuseppe&#8217;s Marketplace opened its Greenvale, N.Y., store at Wheatley Plaza on Aug. 14, continuing the grocer\u2019s Long Island expansion and adding roughly 250 jobs. \u2022 United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) named Alfredo Luchini Chief Financial Officer effective Aug. 10; Giorgio Matteo Tarditi moved from Chief Financial Officer to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2026\/08\/in-other-business-news-260\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Other Business News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":18547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-with-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-19305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retail","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19305","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19307,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19305\/revisions\/19307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}