On this week’s Extra Serving podcast, NRN editor in chief Sam Oches and executive editor Alicia Kelso discuss Taco Bell’s new Live Más Café, a beverage-focused prototype that follows McDonald’s CosMc’s concept as well as the boom in drive-thru coffee chains like Dutch Bros and 7 Brew. Will this prove to be a fruitful direction in a beverage-crazed world, or a distraction from the core business model?
Plus, Papa Johns and new CEO Todd Penegor have developed a blueprint for how that pizza chain hopes to turn its struggling sales around; Sam and Alicia talk about the challenge ahead for Papa Johns as it faces stiff competition from other pizza players.
And in this week’s extra serving, senior editor Joanna Fantozzi joins to talk about Starbucks’ announcement that it would improve benefits for employees, including doubling parental leave.
Finally, we share a conversation between NRN senior F&B editor Bret Thorn and Iron Hill’s corporate executive chef Brendan Mullan.
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