Casual Dining

Chris Hollander, CMO of Panera Bread, and Gje Greene-Wallace, director of marketing for Fish City Grill, discussed how marketing messages have evolved in the age of coronavirus

&Pizza offers paid time off for activism and Chili's parent Brinker vows to ‘lean in’ to underserved communities

Adams and G.J. Hart, CEO of Torchy's Tacos, discuss leadership lessons during the pandemic and how their brands are navigating the reopening phase of dining rooms

Although $240 billion in sales could be lost, customers say they’re eager to dine out again

Company expects 65% of restaurants to restore dining rooms by mid-June

Bob Okura, executive chef at The Cheesecake Factory, and Kaffee Hopkins, director of marketing at Marlow’s Tavern, discuss their new off-premise focus during the pandemic

The company has reopened 158 dining rooms, and is seeing sequential sales improvements

Asset sale would not include 48 restaurants that FoodFirst Global permanently closed during the COVID-19 pandemic

The executive is leaving, as expected, in Feb. 2021