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Leadership

Focus Brands and Fat Brands add new executives

Executive Summary: A roundup of high-level hirings and promotions in the restaurant business includes changes for Noodles & Company and Polly’s Pies.

Operations

Restaurant Business parent company Winsight is sold to Informa

The London-based global events, digital products and academic services firm is acquiring Winsight, the owner of the National Restaurant Show, the Restaurant Leadership Conference and Technomic.

General managers from Noodles & Co., O’Charley’s and Endiro Coffee were selected as the top GMs in RB’s inaugural award.

Executive Summary: A roundup of high-level hirings and promotions in the restaurant business includes changes for 7-Eleven, Razzoo’s, Golden Chick, Canada’s restaurant association.

The publication won two overall excellence awards, for Website of the Year and Multi-Platform Package of the Year. It won eight awards overall.

This year the team was honored with wins for Best Range of Work, Best Website and Best Subject-Related Package for the "Killer in the Kitchen" coverage.

Hear what operators and experts had to say about ghost kitchens and ChatGPT, takeout trends, the risks of cyber attacks, how to drive traffic and cultivating young leaders.

The publication is a finalist for nine national "Azbee Awards," including Website of the Year. It earned several recognitions for packages on addiction and the Top 500 chain restaurants, and is up for five more regional awards.

Working Lunch: The podcast, from Align Public Strategies, features a discussion on the upcoming testimony by Starbucks’ interim CEO in front of Sanders’ U.S. Senate committee.

The team is a finalist in several categories for coverage of addiction in restaurants, supply chain challenges and the Technomic Top 500. Senior Editor Joe Guszkowski was nominated for three awards for his technology coverage.

Working Lunch: Sanders may indeed be able to compel a Senate appearance by the outgoing chain CEO, but that's just one of the issues that Starbucks faced in the last week or so.

Restaurant Rewind: The notion of forgoing dining areas to rely on delivery and takeout has been around since at least the Eisenhower administration. Here are two cases in point.

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