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Uber buys ezCater for $2.3 billion to expand Uber Eats

Denny's launches Project Grand Slam to boost sales and unit growth

Meritage Hospitality Group, which operates 314 Wendy’s units, has closed at least 60 units and opted out or altered the breakfast daypart to improve store-level EBITDA.

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Catering is the first initiative to go live under turnaround plan Project Grand Slam, which is meant to improve restaurant performance and the guest experience.

The fast-casual pizza chain overhauled its operations and restaurant design to accommodate a permanent shift toward digital and off-premises sales.

Full-service restaurant groups are being encouraged to look beyond unit growth and price hikes to find untapped revenue within existing operations.

Church’s Texas Chicken has introduced a new catering program across participating locations, offering buffet-style bundles and individual meals to capture growing off-premises demand.

The heritage fried chicken chain is rolling out a tiered catering program across its domestic system to capture growing demand for group dining and business events.
Design agency 3Owl appoints former ezCater executive Shawn Jones to lead its design practice, focusing on digital platform solutions for restaurant operators and multi-unit brands.

New data from ezCater reveals that workplace catering introduces 62% of employees to brands they later frequent individually, creating a powerful marketing halo for restaurant chains.

Bojangles is centralizing its catering operations through a partnership with ezCater, turning a fragmented franchisee practice into a formal systemwide growth engine.

When Eric Stepp joined Bojangles a little over two years ago, a systemwide catering program was nonexistent at the Charlotte, North Carolina-based chicken chain.