This week on Nation's Restaurant News the top story was Florida Senate passes law protecting restaurants and consumers from third-party delivery services. The Florida state Senate passed a bill last week designed to regulate third-party food delivery apps, specifically with the aim of increasing consumer and business protections against companies like DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats. The bill heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk next for final approval.
In other news, Applebee’s just held a double-blind taste test featuring boneless buffalo wings from the top two national brands (Wingstop and Buffalo Wild Wings). The test, conducted by a third-party research firm, included 1,000 consumers aged 18 to 74 from geographically dispersed markets and Applebee’s won by a “statistically significant margin,” according to chief marketing officer Joel Yashinsky.
Also, Starbucks announced Monday the promotion of former company group president of International and Channel Development, Michael Conway, to the newly created role of CEO, North America. Conway’s new role is one of several leadership changes at the Seattle-based coffee chain that are meant to create a leadership structure with clear geographic locations in mind, “supported by global functions with deep functional expertise and the ability to drive impact on a global scale.”
See what else was trending on NRN.com this week.