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- Today, 6:51 am
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Gov Newsom leaves Panera Exempt from CA Min Wage?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 968
Re: Gov Newsom leaves Panera Exempt from CA Min Wage?
The exception for chains that have less than 60 locations is interesting. What if McDonald's rebranded their restaurants? For example, rebrand 59 restaurants as Ronald McDonald's Hamburgers or Grimace's Burgers. Would that allow below $20 per hour wages? I don't know about this law in particular, b...
- March 27th, 2024, 3:09 pm
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Whataburger expanding to North Carolina
- Replies: 3
- Views: 115
Whataburger expanding to North Carolina
https://www.wbtv.com/2024/03/26/whataburger-inches-closer-first-charlotte-location/ Whataburger has received zoning approval for a proposed restaurant in Charlotte, which would become its first location in North Carolina. It has been reported that there are currently plans underway for five location...
- March 26th, 2024, 1:57 pm
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Restaurant Adoption of pay-by-phone systems
- Replies: 10
- Views: 257
Re: Restaurant Adoption of pay-by-phone systems
Requiring the use of an app to make payments, although somewhat inconvenenient, does mitigate the potential for QR code fraud by adding an intermediate step in the process (a legitimate QR code would likely not work outside the app or would only point to an app download), and some of the apps will a...
- March 25th, 2024, 10:25 am
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Restaurant Adoption of pay-by-phone systems
- Replies: 10
- Views: 257
Restaurant Adoption of pay-by-phone systems
(Was originally going to post this in the table tablet thread, but this topic probably warrants a separate thread.) Over the past year or two I've noticed that a lot of smaller chains and single-location restaurants have begun to move toward pay-by-phone (QR code on receipt) solutions for payment, a...
- March 25th, 2024, 9:29 am
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Tabletop tablets in chain restaurants
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9688
Re: Tabletop tablets in chain restaurants
At the restaurants I visit regularly it seems like Olive Garden, Texas Roadhouse and Red Robin are still using the Ziosk tablets, and aside from refreshed hardware I don't think the user experience has really changed much since they appeared nearly 10 years ago. I did notice that the Utah (Sizzling ...
- March 22nd, 2024, 1:17 pm
- Forum: Northwest, Rockies, & Alaska USA
- Topic: Trader Joe's adding another Salt Lake City, UT store
- Replies: 6
- Views: 173
Re: Trader Joe's adding another Salt Lake City, UT store
Sugar House is probably the closest thing SLC has to a "hipster" neighborhood so I imagine Trader Joe's might do well there. I know the store in Draper (State Street and 11400 S) just opened last year and the Cottonwood Heights store (which I think was actually on the larger side for a Tra...
- March 20th, 2024, 1:52 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Target Rolls 10 item "Express Self Checkout" Nationwide
- Replies: 26
- Views: 839
Re: Target Rolls 10 item "Express Self Checkout" Nationwide
The issue with the bigger self checkouts at Walmart (at least at the store I shop at), most of the time the belts on the "big" self checkouts are either turned off or not functioning, which means you pretty much have to just scan stuff out of your cart the same way you would in the self ch...
- March 20th, 2024, 9:00 am
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Subway Switches To Pepsi For 10 Years From Coke
- Replies: 19
- Views: 542
Re: Subway Switches To Pepsi For 10 Years From Coke
It seems like Subway changes back and forth between Coke and Pepsi products far more frequently than other chains, to the point that I suspect they switch back and forth pretty much each time the contract ends. Pepsi seems to be unusually popular in North Carolina (presumably since it was originally...
- March 11th, 2024, 5:17 pm
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Eddie Bauer dumbs down logo for GenZ
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2349
Re: Eddie Bauer dumbs down logo for GenZ
Costco has also been known to sell gray market products (particularly in softlines) by finding products that can be purchased cheaply in foreign markets and reselling in the US, so it's possible some of these products have come from that. There have been instances where manufacturers have actually t...
- March 11th, 2024, 7:49 am
- Forum: Gas Stations & Convenience Stores
- Topic: Sheetz eliminating soft serve machines in stores
- Replies: 8
- Views: 337
Re: Sheetz eliminating soft serve machines in stores
It does appear that Sheetz does still have shakes available, so I assume they would still need to have a soft serve machine behind the counter for those. I also see that QuikTrip has soft serve cones/cups and shakes available served from behind the counter, so it's possible Sheetz could move to the ...