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Provided April 29, 2021 Pennsylvania-based Saladworks — owned by WOWorks — along wtih Garbanzo Mediterranean Fresh, The Simple Greek and Frutta Bowls, expanded its reach in the first quarter of 2021 with double-digit store openings. Recent openings in Nevada, Florida, Tennessee, and Ontario, Canada, bring the number of WOWorks locations to 217. "The growth Saladworks has experienced over the course of only a few months in 2021 has been extraordinary, especially considering the challenges th...

How 1 casual dining chain is competing with fast casuals After testing its new chicken brand at a Cincinnati festival,  Buffalo Wings & Rings is rolling out the concept via ghost kitchens. Provided Buffalo Wings & Rings, a Cincinnati-based sports franchise, is taking a page from the playbooks of fast casuals and QSRs, which do far more off-site business than causal dining brands. After testing its newly created chicken brand — NBL CKN — at a local festival in 2019, the 85-unit casual dinin...

Wow Bao Wow Bao is an innovative, fast-casual Asian restaurant born in Chicago in 2003 and now can be found across America in small towns, big cities, colleges, airports and select grocery stores thanks to consumer demand, the rise of third-party delivery and Wow Bao’s push into ghost and dark kitchens. Wow Bao is bringing its signature bao, bowls and potstickers to 100 new locations across the U.S. and Canada starting in May, thanks to an agreement with segment leader, Ghost Kitchen Brands. ...

Saladworks Saladworks is part of WOWorks brands, which also includes Garbanzo Mediterranean Fresh, a leading fast-casual Mediterranean restaurant brand, The Simple Greek, a franchise of fast-casual Greek restaurants, and Frutta Bowls, a unique fast-casual concept serving a variety of superfood bowls, fresh fruit smoothies and more. Saladworks, part of the WOWorks family of brands, continued to expand its reach in the first quarter of 2021 with double digit new store openings, bringing WOWorks�...

By Jim Lopolito, Owner of Lopolito Hospitality Consultants, Corp. (LHC) share this article When we compare satisfied employees with good pay the hospitality industry has been in a condition of instability even before the pandemic. While a solution has encompassed different directions but never resulted, the dilemma is being further plagued by an unexpected new competitor paying all of our staff. Advertisements Who is the new competitor paying our previous employees a higher w...

Giusto Restaurant Colin Kane, co-owner, Hammetts Wharf hotel is expecting a bounce-back season. "The hotels been doing really well [in 2021].  We’ve been full every weekend since January,” said Kane in an interview with GoLocal. “I think the restaurant [Giusto] is doing great," said Kane, of the hotels restaurant in the heart of the city on the water. "Its still a struggle with staffing, but I think they have built a great reputation — they opened last fall but then closed because of t...

Nathan’s Famous Signs Deal With Ghost Kitchen Brands to Open 100 Non-traditional Locations by End Of 2021 Nathan’s Famous Signs Deal With Ghost Kitchen Brands to Open 100 Non-traditional Locations by End Of 2021 April 19, 2021 · · Partnership includes 60 Kitchens in the US and 40 in Canada Nathan’s Famous, Inc., the American tradition serving New York favorites for more than 100 years, announced today its partnership with Ghost Kitchen Brands (GKB). The partnership with Nathan’...

Nathans Famous Ghost Kitchen Brands will be selling Nathan’s Famous new menu as well as their recently launched Wings of New York virtual kitchen concept in their kitchens, with plans to grow up to 150 new locations by next year. Nathan’s Famous, Inc., the American tradition serving New York favorites for more than 100 years, announced today its partnership with Ghost Kitchen Brands (GKB). The partnership with Nathan’s Famous and Wings of New York, Nathan’s recently launched virtual kit...

April 18, 2021 Sipping a strong drink outside with friends, jazz music in the air, you could almost forget the pandemic—except for masks dangling around everyone’s chins. Telegraph street in downtown Oakland, California has been closed to auto traffic through a program called flex streets, allowing watering holes like Bar Shiru to set up their tables in the avenue for socially-distanced service. To limit menus, credit cards, or cash from passing back and forth between customers and servers,...

With the departure of McDonalds and Subway operators from within its storefronts, Walmart aims to fill in-store leased space with "relevant" tenants, ranging from local businesses to foodservice operators.