Trending this week: Subway testing 'Subway Grocery'

Application process for Paycheck Protection Program begins April 3

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Access to capital will be speedy, officials pledge, but clarification is still needed.

How Wingstop is growing sales during the pandemic

5 ways the brand is defying trends with same-store sales up 8.9% in the last two weeks of March.

Subway testing 'Subway Grocery' in 100 Southern California restaurants

Nancy Luna

Restaurants are offering contactless curbside pickup or delivery of everything from footlong breads to bulk bacon for consumers looking to avoid the grocery store.

Restaurant companies like McDonald’s, Yum Brands, Shake Shack respond to coronavirus with closures, layoffs, other business updates

Nation’s Restaurant News rounds up the latest business updates from the largest restaurant chains.

What will the restaurant industry look like after coronavirus?

CEOs of Coffee & Bagel Brands, Garbanzo and Hopdoddy share outlook in Cornell University webinar.

Olive Garden parent Darden Restaurants furloughs 20% of corporate staff, 150,000 hourly restaurant workers

Nancy Luna

Same-store sales were down more than 70% in each of the last three weeks despite a dramatic uptick in to-go sales at Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse.

Red Robin doubles off-premise sales amid coronavirus pandemic

Uptick helps offset closures of dine-in at ‘substantially all’ of the casual-dining brand’s units, CEO Paul Murphy says.

TGI Fridays’ plans to go public collapse in wake of coronavirus pandemic

Allegro Merger Corp. terminates deal due to ‘extraordinary market conditions.'

Chefs, law firm form coalition to fight for insurance claims related to coronavirus

Business Interruption Group to demand immediate compensation.

Third-party delivery apps are doing more for restaurants and the industry, but still not waiving fees for restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic

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Uber Eats adds an in-app donation button; independent restaurants on Grubhub to receive $250 each for ‘Supper for Support’ promotions.